Your entire argument boils down to "nuclear energy could be as clean as solar currently is, but it isn't". That's not great. Sporadic capitalised words don't make up for shoddy reasoning, regardless of how angry at greens you were when you wrote that.
Buildings kill orders of magnitude more birds than wind turbines, and are in turn dwarfed by the number killed by domestic cats. If that's your argument you should be calling for buildings, cell/radio towers, and cats to be removed before you even mention wind turbines.
And whether you need to use something has absolutely no bearing whatsoever on whether it is renewable or sustainable. You know what those words mean, right? They are to do with energy production not consumption.
And still the average German household has a smaller electricity bill because they use under a third of the electricity the average American household does.
That is not triple, but 2.75x. So no, Germany does not pay 3 times as much as the US. I know it might sound a rather small difference, but we both know that it is rather an important difference.
Don't say "the math doesn't lie" while performing surreptitious rounding, as it does not reflect well on your intellectual honesty or the strength of the argument you are making.
We have heard of those over here in Germany, but they are not used as much as in the US. Germany is intrinsically hospitable to human habitation. Massive heating or cooling is simply not needed. Couple that with the quality construction (real masonry which retains heat/cold, double/triple glazed windows, external shutters, roof insulation, etc.), and people's energy consumption is relatively tiny.
That means that while your average American house will use 11,698kWh/year, your average German house will use 3,512kWh/year. That in turn means, if we assume your quoted prices are correct, electricity would have to be 3.33x as expensive in Germany (~39c/kWh) versus the US for your average German's electricity bill to be larger than your average American's.
He was fired, and the mechanism through which that happened was his contract not being renewed. There are many ways to fire someone, this is one of them. This is not some secret information - it has been available for quite some time now.
Of course they would. It's quite likely Clarkson is prohibited from being associated with any motoring TV show with "top" or "gear" in its name, and that that would have been in his contract from before he was kicked off the show. That Channel 5 has "Fifth Gear" doesn't matter, as Clarkson is not involved with it. See the difference?
It's not ride sharing. Ride sharing is when someone is going to go to a specific destination, and is willing to take other people there, splitting costs. Pretending to be a taxi is not "ride sharing".
It is HotHardware's own video, embedded in HotHardware's article, posted to Slashdot by HotHardware's editor-in-chief (MojoKid). So it has nothing to do with nvidia and everything to do with HotHardware.
Healthcare scales with population size nicely, as the people it serves pay for it. You can't pull the usual "but we so biiiig!" argument we see when discussing shitty broadband, as it simply does not apply. And "monoculture"? What's that supposed to mean? Can you elucidate as to: a. what that is, and b. how it matters? Not to mention "ass end of Europe" - what does that have to do with anything, apart from you showing your emotional side and trying to stave off this attack on your beloved, sacred homeland's institutions by slinging some random shit?
The US system, as was outlined in the post you replied to (but seemingly didn't read) is inherently broken. It would cost more to cover the other 2/3 because the system is fucked up. Plenty of developed countries the world over have healthcare systems similar to Finland's, and they have outcomes comparable to the US's.
You countered a post saying "Finland spends less money on comparable healthcare" by mumbling some nonsense about how the numbers don't add up because of some weird way you want to look at the numbers? Your argument smacks of desperation and ignorance.
He's done nothing to be called a "run of the mill European nationalist". He just pointed out some demonstrable facts about the failings of the US healthcare system and how they have been handled in other countries. Are you somewhat patriotic yourself? Do you take criticism of the US personally? Does it feel like stabbing in your heart or stomach when someone besmirches the pristine name of the US? It sure as hell sounds like it.
You asked her to write you a provisional certificate of money subscribed to a bank or company, entitling the holder to a formal certificate and dividends? No wonder she was confused!
This is what happens when society gets itself some bad habits. In order to redress the balance, things like this are necessary. Remember this isn't about making non-white people better than white people, but providing them some strong support to attempt to level the playing field.
If you can't see that there is a modicum of logic and need behind this, then I feel sorry for you.
You missed the cause of all of this: no nationalized healthcare.
A single-buyer can negotiate prices from Big Pharma and limit their meddling with doctors and practices. Government-run hospitals don't have to spend money on marketing and all sorts of things traditionally associated with car dealerships rather than treating people. Government-run healthcare can include a reasonable arbitration system for dealing with claims of medical malpractice, etc. Plus if people aren't paying out of pocket for treatment, there are far fewer financial issues relating to needing extra/different treatment. No more government picking up the massively-inflated bill for someone who wandered in to an ER with holes in them.
This is hardly esoteric - just look at the other developed countries with comparable/better healthcare systems, and see how much they actually cost. This experiment has been running for decades, and the outcome is staggering.
It's a bit more complicated than that, clearly. It's not as if Libya and Syria were perfect idylls of heaven on Earth, then Hillary pressed a button which fucked them up. Of course that would suit your narrative down to a T, but reality begs to differ.
CryHelicopter more like. You sound like an emo teen blowing everything out of all proportion, convinced their interpretation of reality is infallible.
Your approach to democracy is beyond childish. For a country which espouses such love and respect for democracy, it's amazing how the democratic process has devolved to some team sport, with people like you cheering on from the sidelines. You suck at this.
Don't break his little mind! If you make him realise the only reason he's upset is his misogyny/racism - and not some feigned appreciation for tradition - he'll have to spend a few more minutes coming up with an excuse why he's not misogynistic/racist, and time is money!
Stop making such ridiculous generalizations. I'm sure they sound all right and dandy to you, but to anyone with more than a passing grasp of critical thinking you are raising "I AM AN IDIOT" flags left, right and center.
Your choice of words in "clean it.. up" is strange, as each and every example given was of the US doing completely the opposite. Don't pretend the US is the world police - police are there to maintain peace and stability. The US is more like the world's mafia, doing what they want to maximize profits, regardless of the fallout, or the hypocrisy involved.
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Your entire argument boils down to "nuclear energy could be as clean as solar currently is, but it isn't". That's not great. Sporadic capitalised words don't make up for shoddy reasoning, regardless of how angry at greens you were when you wrote that.
Buildings kill orders of magnitude more birds than wind turbines, and are in turn dwarfed by the number killed by domestic cats. If that's your argument you should be calling for buildings, cell/radio towers, and cats to be removed before you even mention wind turbines.
And whether you need to use something has absolutely no bearing whatsoever on whether it is renewable or sustainable. You know what those words mean, right? They are to do with energy production not consumption.
And still the average German household has a smaller electricity bill because they use under a third of the electricity the average American household does.
That is not triple, but 2.75x. So no, Germany does not pay 3 times as much as the US. I know it might sound a rather small difference, but we both know that it is rather an important difference.
Don't say "the math doesn't lie" while performing surreptitious rounding, as it does not reflect well on your intellectual honesty or the strength of the argument you are making.
We have heard of those over here in Germany, but they are not used as much as in the US. Germany is intrinsically hospitable to human habitation. Massive heating or cooling is simply not needed. Couple that with the quality construction (real masonry which retains heat/cold, double/triple glazed windows, external shutters, roof insulation, etc.), and people's energy consumption is relatively tiny.
That means that while your average American house will use 11,698kWh/year, your average German house will use 3,512kWh/year. That in turn means, if we assume your quoted prices are correct, electricity would have to be 3.33x as expensive in Germany (~39c/kWh) versus the US for your average German's electricity bill to be larger than your average American's.
There you go again with your alarmism. Good jerb!
How wonderfully arbitrary.
He was fired, and the mechanism through which that happened was his contract not being renewed. There are many ways to fire someone, this is one of them. This is not some secret information - it has been available for quite some time now.
Of course they would. It's quite likely Clarkson is prohibited from being associated with any motoring TV show with "top" or "gear" in its name, and that that would have been in his contract from before he was kicked off the show. That Channel 5 has "Fifth Gear" doesn't matter, as Clarkson is not involved with it. See the difference?
(pssst... no one cares)
So it's xenophobic, but only temporarily xenophobic, until some point in the future when it will be stopped? Is that supposed to be better?
It's not ride sharing. Ride sharing is when someone is going to go to a specific destination, and is willing to take other people there, splitting costs. Pretending to be a taxi is not "ride sharing".
It is HotHardware's own video, embedded in HotHardware's article, posted to Slashdot by HotHardware's editor-in-chief (MojoKid). So it has nothing to do with nvidia and everything to do with HotHardware.
Healthcare scales with population size nicely, as the people it serves pay for it. You can't pull the usual "but we so biiiig!" argument we see when discussing shitty broadband, as it simply does not apply. And "monoculture"? What's that supposed to mean? Can you elucidate as to: a. what that is, and b. how it matters? Not to mention "ass end of Europe" - what does that have to do with anything, apart from you showing your emotional side and trying to stave off this attack on your beloved, sacred homeland's institutions by slinging some random shit?
The US system, as was outlined in the post you replied to (but seemingly didn't read) is inherently broken. It would cost more to cover the other 2/3 because the system is fucked up. Plenty of developed countries the world over have healthcare systems similar to Finland's, and they have outcomes comparable to the US's.
You countered a post saying "Finland spends less money on comparable healthcare" by mumbling some nonsense about how the numbers don't add up because of some weird way you want to look at the numbers? Your argument smacks of desperation and ignorance.
He's done nothing to be called a "run of the mill European nationalist". He just pointed out some demonstrable facts about the failings of the US healthcare system and how they have been handled in other countries. Are you somewhat patriotic yourself? Do you take criticism of the US personally? Does it feel like stabbing in your heart or stomach when someone besmirches the pristine name of the US? It sure as hell sounds like it.
You asked her to write you a provisional certificate of money subscribed to a bank or company, entitling the holder to a formal certificate and dividends? No wonder she was confused!
This is what happens when society gets itself some bad habits. In order to redress the balance, things like this are necessary. Remember this isn't about making non-white people better than white people, but providing them some strong support to attempt to level the playing field.
If you can't see that there is a modicum of logic and need behind this, then I feel sorry for you.
You missed the cause of all of this: no nationalized healthcare.
A single-buyer can negotiate prices from Big Pharma and limit their meddling with doctors and practices. Government-run hospitals don't have to spend money on marketing and all sorts of things traditionally associated with car dealerships rather than treating people. Government-run healthcare can include a reasonable arbitration system for dealing with claims of medical malpractice, etc. Plus if people aren't paying out of pocket for treatment, there are far fewer financial issues relating to needing extra/different treatment. No more government picking up the massively-inflated bill for someone who wandered in to an ER with holes in them.
This is hardly esoteric - just look at the other developed countries with comparable/better healthcare systems, and see how much they actually cost. This experiment has been running for decades, and the outcome is staggering.
It's a bit more complicated than that, clearly. It's not as if Libya and Syria were perfect idylls of heaven on Earth, then Hillary pressed a button which fucked them up. Of course that would suit your narrative down to a T, but reality begs to differ.
Hardly. He slings insults at great swathes of people who simply don't deserve it. He picks up enemies like cow poo picks up flies.
If you think Trump is a protest vote, you might as well piss on the founding fathers' graves, as clearly you don't understand democracy at all.
CryHelicopter more like. You sound like an emo teen blowing everything out of all proportion, convinced their interpretation of reality is infallible.
Your approach to democracy is beyond childish. For a country which espouses such love and respect for democracy, it's amazing how the democratic process has devolved to some team sport, with people like you cheering on from the sidelines. You suck at this.
Way to judge. I hope you are proud of yourself.
This fabled, nebulous "spying" we've heard so much about but have yet to actually see...
Don't break his little mind! If you make him realise the only reason he's upset is his misogyny/racism - and not some feigned appreciation for tradition - he'll have to spend a few more minutes coming up with an excuse why he's not misogynistic/racist, and time is money!
Stop making such ridiculous generalizations. I'm sure they sound all right and dandy to you, but to anyone with more than a passing grasp of critical thinking you are raising "I AM AN IDIOT" flags left, right and center.
Your choice of words in "clean it .. up" is strange, as each and every example given was of the US doing completely the opposite. Don't pretend the US is the world police - police are there to maintain peace and stability. The US is more like the world's mafia, doing what they want to maximize profits, regardless of the fallout, or the hypocrisy involved.