Because Australian politicians deemed the most crucial thing for the power companies to do, was to use green sources of energy.
Epic fail - Queensland runs on coal and Australian politicians are pushing hard for more coal use. They even passed a lump of it around in Federal Parliment a couple of months ago as some sort of political stunt.
Is there nothing that you don't blame on windmills?
Australia could be containing pollution in a handful of large power generation sites,
Even worse - abuse by a government utility that is acting like a private one. Worst of both worlds. Expensive additional layers of private middlemen who do nothing but add up and send out the bills don't help either. It's a fake electricity market regulated by the same government that profits from it. I saw the start of this disaster in 1996 and got out, moving to the resource industries instead.
Correct - but they are still paying highly inflated costs for electricity to run those pumps at night. There has been serious price gouging where somehow some of the cheapest to produce electricity on the planet is sold to the customer at close to the highest prices on the planet.
I didn't see the reason stated for why power rates are climbing so quickly.
The government doing the price regulation owns the generators and benefits as the price goes up. The results of "running a government like a business" are obvious - citizens get financially screwed over.
while maintaining the illusion of a democratic republic (think of the arsehole in charge of N. Korea and how little he cares for the people
That's a very bad example since there is no illusion to the people there or outside of the place of it being anything other than the totalitarian shithole run by the Kim family that it is. I met someone who had to flee the place just in front of arrest to the relative freedom of Mao's China - that's how much a totalitarian shithole it has been for decades.
I get your point though. Iran may be a better example because it has an elected President with very little political power. It's a theocracy with an incredibly skewed democratic process that can be overruled at any time.
I'd wager it was because he got considerably more media coverage than other Republican candidates but if you don't think that matters we can put that aside
How is that the fault of the Democrats and not the fault of Trumps good friends Roger Ailes (who was there hyping Trump until more than half way through the year) and Rupert Murdoch? Blaming the Democrats for Trump just comes off as tinfoil hat insane. Is that really what you want people to think of you? Lies have consequences.
Whichever the case, in your opinion why did a candidate with so much experience and recognition, rose colored by her husband's reign over the dot com boom, lose to a candidate with no political experience who acted like a strawman parody of a Republican?
Because she focused on the "squeaky wheel" issues and did not give most of the country a reason to vote for her. She assumed that the ordinary people that are likely to get crushed under Trump's ideal oligarchy would vote against him without being given a promise of what she could deliver that would be better.
Besides, I'm not actually defending the Democrats - "not as bad a Trump" applies to pretty close to all of the Republicans as well - I'm just astonished by the audacity of the poster above blaming even the actions of the Republican party on the Democrats.
You are only willing to bet because you can't understand that in open source a large portion of the development work is already done for you. Sure, somebody's taxes/payroll/whatever paid for each piece but it only has to be done once instead of so much reinventing wheels. Also you don't seem to get that administration costs for non-MS systems are low due to replacement being far more trivial than even re-imaging. Throw a drive with an installed system in just about anything and you are good to go, no mucking about with drivers because they are all on the disk already. In comparison with enough MS systems even licence management becomes a full time position.
Why the constant insistence that users must have the flavour of the day foisted upon them?
Because it's driven by salesfolk who focus on the very short term.
And with modern browsers offering productivity suites through web based platforms
Yes. Also X Windows and RDP things make it easier to run stuff where it will run well and display it on whatever the user has, even a phone or tablet if necessary. Some of the third party RDP things even have similar functionality to X where they can export a single application window (instead of the MS thing that gives you a user confusing extra desktop, making it more or less just VNC that you have to pay for only with some virus vectors).
I don't know why you bothered to track the link down since your entire premise is a pile of utterly obvious hyper-partisan bullshit. I suggest in a few years you read your post again to remind yourself of the shit you used to write.
Trump got picked by the primary process. Tinfoil hat musing about some magic from somewhere else doing it reflects only on yourself or the people whose ravings you are parroting.
That's my entire point. There are people in politics who want to move to a totalitarian type of government instead of a republic. It's a few years back but Koch is a clearer example of someone who wanted to be King.
Spot on - Magic the Gathering online eXchange, the name that smacks of pure professionalism and not some guy who is going to walk away with your stuff:) I shouldn't have laughed at the time but I did. The pyramid scheme scammers got scammed!
This is your brain on drugs! Above poster, you'll scare yourself when you come down from whatever you are on and read what you have written. "Democrats are responsible for Trump being in the White House"? OMFG that's funny.
You broke it you bought it. The Republicans are responsible for that trust fund baby that never grew up being in the White House AS WELL as shit like this bill.
Oh, you are still upset that Oliver North spilled the beans
I don't know about the above poster but I'm still fuming that the traitor who gave weapons to Hezbolla as well as Iran is not only outside jail but also running the fucking NRA. We all should be upset IMHO. Even if Reagan was behind it "just following orders" is no excuse for giving anti-tank weapons to a bunch that had killed over a hundred US Marines less than a year before.
For anyone whose politically connected (at the time),
So why isn't she being charged now that she's political roadkill? No answer? Maybe it wasn't just the political connections then but it just being something that was too trivial to go after for Rice, Powell and so many others before and including Clinton.
long-time Republican House leader who was also a pedophile and is currently in prison.
Yes, but it's not like he had his own email server! The same with Senator Peter King - he raised money for terrorists, but no email server, so he's OK (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_T._King#Support_for_the_IRA)
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Epic fail - Queensland runs on coal and Australian politicians are pushing hard for more coal use. They even passed a lump of it around in Federal Parliment a couple of months ago as some sort of political stunt.
Is there nothing that you don't blame on windmills?
Not could - are.
Even worse - abuse by a government utility that is acting like a private one. Worst of both worlds. Expensive additional layers of private middlemen who do nothing but add up and send out the bills don't help either. It's a fake electricity market regulated by the same government that profits from it. I saw the start of this disaster in 1996 and got out, moving to the resource industries instead.
Correct - but they are still paying highly inflated costs for electricity to run those pumps at night.
There has been serious price gouging where somehow some of the cheapest to produce electricity on the planet is sold to the customer at close to the highest prices on the planet.
The government doing the price regulation owns the generators and benefits as the price goes up.
The results of "running a government like a business" are obvious - citizens get financially screwed over.
Good points but wrong aquifer.
"The Aussies" are growing the stuff in places where only occasional irrigation is needed.
Droughts happen.
That's a very bad example since there is no illusion to the people there or outside of the place of it being anything other than the totalitarian shithole run by the Kim family that it is. I met someone who had to flee the place just in front of arrest to the relative freedom of Mao's China - that's how much a totalitarian shithole it has been for decades.
I get your point though. Iran may be a better example because it has an elected President with very little political power. It's a theocracy with an incredibly skewed democratic process that can be overruled at any time.
In America it is.
How is that the fault of the Democrats and not the fault of Trumps good friends Roger Ailes (who was there hyping Trump until more than half way through the year) and Rupert Murdoch?
Blaming the Democrats for Trump just comes off as tinfoil hat insane. Is that really what you want people to think of you? Lies have consequences.
Because she focused on the "squeaky wheel" issues and did not give most of the country a reason to vote for her. She assumed that the ordinary people that are likely to get crushed under Trump's ideal oligarchy would vote against him without being given a promise of what she could deliver that would be better.
Besides, I'm not actually defending the Democrats - "not as bad a Trump" applies to pretty close to all of the Republicans as well - I'm just astonished by the audacity of the poster above blaming even the actions of the Republican party on the Democrats.
You are only willing to bet because you can't understand that in open source a large portion of the development work is already done for you. Sure, somebody's taxes/payroll/whatever paid for each piece but it only has to be done once instead of so much reinventing wheels.
Also you don't seem to get that administration costs for non-MS systems are low due to replacement being far more trivial than even re-imaging. Throw a drive with an installed system in just about anything and you are good to go, no mucking about with drivers because they are all on the disk already. In comparison with enough MS systems even licence management becomes a full time position.
Because it's driven by salesfolk who focus on the very short term.
Yes. Also X Windows and RDP things make it easier to run stuff where it will run well and display it on whatever the user has, even a phone or tablet if necessary. Some of the third party RDP things even have similar functionality to X where they can export a single application window (instead of the MS thing that gives you a user confusing extra desktop, making it more or less just VNC that you have to pay for only with some virus vectors).
The cost of buying computers over the last decade adds up to a bit no matter what you put on them.
Being best buddies with the head of Fox News at the time is the obvious answer.
I don't know why you bothered to track the link down since your entire premise is a pile of utterly obvious hyper-partisan bullshit. I suggest in a few years you read your post again to remind yourself of the shit you used to write.
Trump got picked by the primary process. Tinfoil hat musing about some magic from somewhere else doing it reflects only on yourself or the people whose ravings you are parroting.
That's my entire point. There are people in politics who want to move to a totalitarian type of government instead of a republic. It's a few years back but Koch is a clearer example of someone who wanted to be King.
Here's a guess. Maybe they tried to find the guy who started bitcoin and when they were told he was in hiding they had a few second thoughts.
Spot on - Magic the Gathering online eXchange, the name that smacks of pure professionalism and not some guy who is going to walk away with your stuff :)
I shouldn't have laughed at the time but I did. The pyramid scheme scammers got scammed!
No, they don't run the NRA. Weirdo.
The weird thing is this traitor is running the NRA (http://nraontherecord.org/oliver-north/).
Maybe, but 99% of the time "small government" is code for "no regulators to watch me when my company breaks the law".
This is your brain on drugs!
Above poster, you'll scare yourself when you come down from whatever you are on and read what you have written. "Democrats are responsible for Trump being in the White House"? OMFG that's funny.
You broke it you bought it. The Republicans are responsible for that trust fund baby that never grew up being in the White House AS WELL as shit like this bill.
It finds the people who are not Nordic enough to be true citizens of the great new utopia.
It's sort of true if they are pushing for an absolute monarchy - one individual with all the liberty.
I don't know about the above poster but I'm still fuming that the traitor who gave weapons to Hezbolla as well as Iran is not only outside jail but also running the fucking NRA. We all should be upset IMHO. Even if Reagan was behind it "just following orders" is no excuse for giving anti-tank weapons to a bunch that had killed over a hundred US Marines less than a year before.
So why isn't she being charged now that she's political roadkill?
No answer?
Maybe it wasn't just the political connections then but it just being something that was too trivial to go after for Rice, Powell and so many others before and including Clinton.
Yes, but it's not like he had his own email server!
The same with Senator Peter King - he raised money for terrorists, but no email server, so he's OK (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_T._King#Support_for_the_IRA)