I'd like to see laws on the books that would require new commercial developments to include solar+battery for each housing unit.
This is one of the dumbest things we could do. In order to make a real change, alternative energy HAS TO ACTUALLY MAKE ECONOMIC SENSE. Requiring companies to buy their products regardless of the efficiency will take away incentives to improve and impede progress.
"Feel good" subsidies and mandates only work in the 1st World, and nearly all growth in energy use is coming in the 3rd World, where they can't afford such foolishness. India isn't going to switch from coal to solar until solar is cheaper.
Screw jail. This guy needs to be drawn and quartered.
Nonsense. Having guys like him probing our infrastructure is a lot better than leaving the holes wide open for Putin and Xi Jingping. He is providing a public service. It may not be pleasant when you get pwned, but flu shots aren't pleasant either.
My "takeaway" from the article is the opposite: The energy used by internet porn is completely negligible. They used scary analogies like "11,000 light bulbs", but since this is something used regularly by BILLIONS of people, that is an astonishingly small amount of energy.
If these people stopped watching porn, and instead increased their social interaction, and maybe even went on a date using a gasoline powered car, the environmental consequences would be far, far worse.
Does anyone use it? Years ago, NFC was touted as a way to "pay for stuff with your phone". But now that the future has arrived, when I pay, it is always by scanning a QR code on the kiosk screen and then using the plain ol' cellular network to complete the transaction. No NFC needed.
Next time try Craigslist. Put it in the "free stuff" category. Someone will come and get it within an hour, even if it doesn't work. There are people that make a living picking up broken appliances, repairing them, and then reselling.
You know all of San Francisco is in the liquefaction zone right? That means the ground isn't really ground but more like water when there is an earthquake. That's why zoning policy limits development on that tiny peninsula.
This is a load of horsepucky. Tokyo is way more earthquake prone than SF, and they have 54 story skyscrapers. In 2011, they rocked to a 9.0 earthquake. Number of skyscrapers that fell down: 0.
SF has 60 story skyscrapers. The danger is far worse with OLD buildings than tall buildings. They can tear down old low rise structures in SOMA and replace them with much taller and safer buildings that can provide far more housing, and boost the local economy... but they would also put competition into the housing market, so rich property owners vote it down.
The rental in the Silicon Valley area are ridiculously high, and one reason being there are way too many people competing for the housing
Nonsense. This is exactly backwards. The problem is supply not demand. The rich liberals want to protect their property values with artificial scarcity by electing city governments and zoning boards that issue nearly zero permits for housing construction.
So the rich get richer, renters get screwed, the poor get squeezed out, and there isn't a Republican in a 50 mile radius to blame.
If corporate sponsored health care disappeared, we would most likely move to a Canadian style single payer system, and Medicaid and Medicare would be absorbed into it.
In Maoist China each factory ran a school for the children of their employees, so if you changed jobs, your kids had to switch to a different school. That is obviously an idiotic system, but getting your health care from you employer is just as idiotic, and you only think it makes sense because you are used to it.
I don’t see anything in the first amendment that prohibits speech registration.
I think the phrase "no law" precludes that.
Here's the full text, since you have apparently never actually read it:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
I'm saying that you make it clear that power behind the party is not going to be on Moore's side
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED. The establishment overwhelmingly backed Luther Strange, and was vehemently opposed to Moore.
Most political analysts believe that the establishment opposition actually helped Moore's candidacy. The GOP establishment is not very popular in American, and even less so in Alabama. Every time Mitch McConnell says Moore should drop out, his poll numbers go up.
Here is one other guy that won despite strong opposition by the GOP establishment: Donald Trump.
You seem to have a weird mental model of how elections work. The GOP consists of 52 million people. How are they going to decide who does or doesn't get to file an election form in an Alabama courthouse?
There is no "they". Anyone can run for office if they meet the age and a few other legal requirements. No one other than the voters can stop them.
If there was a "they", then Jeb Bush would be president.
Supposedly Matthew 18:6 Matthew 18:6 6"If anyone causes one of these little ones-those who believe in me-to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.
That doesn't sound like a blanket ban. Pedophilia should still be okay as long as the victim isn't a believer.
they should have shitcanned him before he even filled out the paperwork.
Who is "they"?
If there is a more than 1% chance that someone is guilty of any major crime or morally questionable action, find someone else, because the pool of eligible candidates is in the millions.
The number of adults with a 99% chance of having never done anything morally questionable is precisely zero.
Life expectancy of women at the age of 15 years has however changed dramatically over the last 600 years and by a decade and a half since the mid-Victorian period.
One wonders what socio-economic forces might explain this
Death in childbirth, or from infections following childbirth, were very common. The big change occurred from 1840 to 1870, when midwives and doctors began washing their hands.
If there's a 1% chance someone is a sexual predator, you should find another candidate.
1. They couldn't "find another candidate". Even at the time of the 1st allegation, it was too late to remove Moore from the ballot.
2. There is WAY more than a 1% chance that the accusations are true. About 10% of accusations of sexual assault that are investigated are found to be false. That doesn't mean that other 90% are all true, but it does indicate that accusations are more likely true than not. The accusers have no known motivation to lie, have no history of political activism, and most of them talked about the events with friends and relatives at the time the incidents occurred. I think the accuser count is now up to 8, and if we assume that there is a 50% chance that each allegation is false, that is (1 - 1/(2^8)) = 99.6% chance that at least one accuser is telling the truth.
3. Most of the accusers are not claiming that anything illegal happened. The age of consent in Alabama is 16, and most of the women are not claiming that he had sex with them, only that he "pursued" them.
4. Moore is obvious a creep, and I hope he loses. But if he wins, then he is the choice of the people of Alabama, and no politician or group of politicians should subvert the will of the voters. Democrats should be delighted if he wins, since Roy Moore will be the new face of the GOP. Maybe the Democrats will finally have a winning issue.
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I'd like to see laws on the books that would require new commercial developments to include solar+battery for each housing unit.
This is one of the dumbest things we could do. In order to make a real change, alternative energy HAS TO ACTUALLY MAKE ECONOMIC SENSE. Requiring companies to buy their products regardless of the efficiency will take away incentives to improve and impede progress.
"Feel good" subsidies and mandates only work in the 1st World, and nearly all growth in energy use is coming in the 3rd World, where they can't afford such foolishness. India isn't going to switch from coal to solar until solar is cheaper.
Screw jail. This guy needs to be drawn and quartered.
Nonsense. Having guys like him probing our infrastructure is a lot better than leaving the holes wide open for Putin and Xi Jingping. He is providing a public service. It may not be pleasant when you get pwned, but flu shots aren't pleasant either.
The internets are a big consumer of electricity
Baloney. In America "the Internet" (datacenters, switches, routers, etc.) use about 70 billion kwhrs. That is less than 2% of power consumption.
We save that much just by people dimming the lights to watch Netflix.
How much energy to run the Internet?
My "takeaway" from the article is the opposite: The energy used by internet porn is completely negligible. They used scary analogies like "11,000 light bulbs", but since this is something used regularly by BILLIONS of people, that is an astonishingly small amount of energy.
If these people stopped watching porn, and instead increased their social interaction, and maybe even went on a date using a gasoline powered car, the environmental consequences would be far, far worse.
If the government did this people would be screaming from the rooftops and rioting in the streets.
The government does this. So far no riots.
Here is a quick summary of what happened:
1. Uber's competitors placed information on a publicly accessible website.
2. Uber looked at it.
I am feeling a distinct lack of outrage.
Other than lack of NFC (which I rarely use)
Does anyone use it? Years ago, NFC was touted as a way to "pay for stuff with your phone". But now that the future has arrived, when I pay, it is always by scanning a QR code on the kiosk screen and then using the plain ol' cellular network to complete the transaction. No NFC needed.
I disagree. I, for one, buy used high end phones for about one third their original price when they are 6-18 months old.
The fact that you buy high end phones (whether used or not) is not evidence that there is a market for mid-range phones.
Next time try Craigslist. Put it in the "free stuff" category. Someone will come and get it within an hour, even if it doesn't work. There are people that make a living picking up broken appliances, repairing them, and then reselling.
You know all of San Francisco is in the liquefaction zone right? That means the ground isn't really ground but more like water when there is an earthquake. That's why zoning policy limits development on that tiny peninsula.
This is a load of horsepucky. Tokyo is way more earthquake prone than SF, and they have 54 story skyscrapers. In 2011, they rocked to a 9.0 earthquake. Number of skyscrapers that fell down: 0.
SF has 60 story skyscrapers. The danger is far worse with OLD buildings than tall buildings. They can tear down old low rise structures in SOMA and replace them with much taller and safer buildings that can provide far more housing, and boost the local economy ... but they would also put competition into the housing market, so rich property owners vote it down.
It has nothing to do with "earthquakes".
The rental in the Silicon Valley area are ridiculously high, and one reason being there are way too many people competing for the housing
Nonsense. This is exactly backwards. The problem is supply not demand. The rich liberals want to protect their property values with artificial scarcity by electing city governments and zoning boards that issue nearly zero permits for housing construction.
So the rich get richer, renters get screwed, the poor get squeezed out, and there isn't a Republican in a 50 mile radius to blame.
What does it even mean to be "at risk" of hunger? It seems to me that you are either hungry or you're not.
Perhaps the people that can't afford food should move to Gilroy and save $1000 per month in rent (per bedroom).
Meanwhile, 100% of the people in SV are "at risk" of an asteroid impact.
If corporate sponsored health care disappeared, we would most likely move to a Canadian style single payer system, and Medicaid and Medicare would be absorbed into it.
In Maoist China each factory ran a school for the children of their employees, so if you changed jobs, your kids had to switch to a different school. That is obviously an idiotic system, but getting your health care from you employer is just as idiotic, and you only think it makes sense because you are used to it.
What I would like to know the actual restrictions... For example would my 6 year old son need to register his $30 toy
If it is under 0.5 pounds (227 gm), it doesn't have to be registered. Many toy drones weigh less than that.
Or is it restricted to stuff with cameras or stuff that carry a payload?
I don't see anything about cameras, but any payload would count toward the weight limit.
I don’t see anything in the first amendment that prohibits speech registration.
I think the phrase "no law" precludes that.
Here's the full text, since you have apparently never actually read it:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
And why would I register a drone?
My Mavic Pro required registration before it would work.
My AR-15 assault rifle worked great straight out of the box. It is registered with no one.
Trump is a corporate cock sucker, not a nazilike person.
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini
I'm saying that you make it clear that power behind the party is not going to be on Moore's side
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED. The establishment overwhelmingly backed Luther Strange, and was vehemently opposed to Moore.
Most political analysts believe that the establishment opposition actually helped Moore's candidacy. The GOP establishment is not very popular in American, and even less so in Alabama. Every time Mitch McConnell says Moore should drop out, his poll numbers go up.
Here is one other guy that won despite strong opposition by the GOP establishment: Donald Trump.
The text doesn't refer to whether or not the victim "believes".
Uhh ... yes it does: "those who believe in me".
If the qualification was not important, then why did J.C. include it?
"They" is the GOP.
You seem to have a weird mental model of how elections work. The GOP consists of 52 million people. How are they going to decide who does or doesn't get to file an election form in an Alabama courthouse?
There is no "they". Anyone can run for office if they meet the age and a few other legal requirements. No one other than the voters can stop them.
If there was a "they", then Jeb Bush would be president.
Supposedly Matthew 18:6 Matthew 18:6 6"If anyone causes one of these little ones-those who believe in me-to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.
That doesn't sound like a blanket ban. Pedophilia should still be okay as long as the victim isn't a believer.
they should have shitcanned him before he even filled out the paperwork.
Who is "they"?
If there is a more than 1% chance that someone is guilty of any major crime or morally questionable action, find someone else, because the pool of eligible candidates is in the millions.
The number of adults with a 99% chance of having never done anything morally questionable is precisely zero.
Life expectancy of women at the age of 15 years has however changed dramatically over the last 600 years and by a decade and a half since the mid-Victorian period.
One wonders what socio-economic forces might explain this
Death in childbirth, or from infections following childbirth, were very common. The big change occurred from 1840 to 1870, when midwives and doctors began washing their hands.
If there's a 1% chance someone is a sexual predator, you should find another candidate.
1. They couldn't "find another candidate". Even at the time of the 1st allegation, it was too late to remove Moore from the ballot.
2. There is WAY more than a 1% chance that the accusations are true. About 10% of accusations of sexual assault that are investigated are found to be false. That doesn't mean that other 90% are all true, but it does indicate that accusations are more likely true than not. The accusers have no known motivation to lie, have no history of political activism, and most of them talked about the events with friends and relatives at the time the incidents occurred. I think the accuser count is now up to 8, and if we assume that there is a 50% chance that each allegation is false, that is (1 - 1/(2^8)) = 99.6% chance that at least one accuser is telling the truth.
3. Most of the accusers are not claiming that anything illegal happened. The age of consent in Alabama is 16, and most of the women are not claiming that he had sex with them, only that he "pursued" them.
4. Moore is obvious a creep, and I hope he loses. But if he wins, then he is the choice of the people of Alabama, and no politician or group of politicians should subvert the will of the voters. Democrats should be delighted if he wins, since Roy Moore will be the new face of the GOP. Maybe the Democrats will finally have a winning issue.
As hypocritical as christians electing a pedo ?
What is unchristian about pedophilia? Can you cite scripture?