Value should be given to the reduction in transmission and distribution costs as well. On my bill the sum of those two items is about the same as the rate for the generation cost.
Hell, there's a charge on my bill to pay off bonds that the California government used to buy power at exorbitant, extortionate rates more than a decade ago during the "energy crisis" created with the "help" of Enron. - that's an extra half cent per kwh that we'll have to pay for freaking ever because politicians got bought out by corporations' "free market" bullshit and overpaid for power for less than a year.
Plus, there's about 8c/kwh that I'm paying for "Conservation Incentives" and another 1c/kwh for "Electric Public Purpose Programs." If all I had to do was pay for fscking power, my bill would be a factor of three smaller. Just saying....
Sunroof doesn't operate in Texas, and perhaps because it's not worth it due to the structure of electricity rates. In California, we've got tiered rates that punish high usage - buying your electricity in Costco-sized bundles costs more than buying it in convenience-store tiny bundles. The statewide solar initiatives (CSI) is done, kaput, played out, but used to pay as much at $2.50/installed-watt or 39c/kwh - but it ended at 20c/installed-watt or 2.5c/kwh. The 30% federal tax credit's the sole big remaining inventive, until the end of 2016.
Here in the Bay Area, one of the few regions where Sunroof actually is operating, residential electric rates start at 16c/kwh (Tier 1), but rise to 19c, 28c, and 34c (Tier 4) as your usage increases over "baseline". If you size your system to knock out Tier 3 & 4 usage via net metering, the payout's much quicker.
If you combine net metering with time-of-use metering, the payout time can be even sooner, as the Weekday (Monday-Friday), "summer" (May-October), Tier 4 rate reaches 49c/kwh at times of high demand and 38c/kwh at medium demand. The high demand period runs 1pm-to-7pm, and medium-demand runs 10am-to-1pm and 7pm-to-9pm, so the sweet-spot daylight times for solar are generally net-metered at medium-demand and high-demand rates. Notably, this means that west-facing solar panels get a sweeter payback than either east-facing or south-facing on a typically-sloped roof.
As a rough figure, this probably puts payback times into the 3-to-7-year range, depending on cost of installation and orientation of the panels. It takes a lot longer to break even if you're trying to zero out your utility bill, because if you try to drive your net-usage all the way to zero, you're net-metering down at the 16c level, actually 13c during "winter" season (November-April). If you oversize your system and try to get a net payment from the utility, they only pay about 3c/kwh for excess power.
As an aside, I used this opportunity to check out the TOU rates to see what the average rate is for, say, a continually-running server, and it looks like the TOU schedule is 0.78c/kwh lower than the standard tiered rate plan. For me, that was one one of the questions to consider whether going for a TOU plan was going to hurt my bill.
For other stereotypical Californians (not me, not me, it's for a friend, really), a grow lights for...umm... plants might be a similar issue - but typical schedules for grow lights & heat cycles are 12 hours/day - perhaps you can reverse day for night, and grow your plants with off-peak power FTW? Or supplement with actual sunlight during peak hours?
No. Just No. I'd equate that heartless comment to the bitching about the cost of ADA compliance. Safe food is a basic human need. We're not eating at the damned Fountainhead Cafe. You seem to think that it's just economically cheaper to kill all people with allergies, but that's just too cruel to consider.
Here in the US, foods that are labeled that they may contain trace amounts of tree nuts are treated as poison by my wife, and deservedly so because of a strong allergic reaction to tree nuts that has required hospital-level treatment. While it's not literally true that there are no foods not so labelled, it is becoming alarmingly rare to find packaged food without allergy warnings. There are a few manufacturers that do keep their equipment nut-free and market their products as such at premium prices.
I contacted one company that had a nut-free product, who switched their labels to include the warning, and they responded that certain of their products, that were marketed through Costco were still nut-free, but the Costco product includes the warning label as well. If this behavior is representative, I really think product safety legislation is going to have to fix this so that persons with allergies are still able to purchase food. Frankly, it's terrible behavior on the part of food manufacturers, and I'd much rather have legislation that requires manufacturers to properly clean their equipment instead of simply labeling their food as poison.
The news article claimed that researchers had control over the botnet, but the research paper implies otherwise, simply that the control network was rendered inaccessible.
Did Conficker have something to prevent a takeover, such as using a public key signature to verify update code?
If they were able to inject a popup window informing the user of the infection, surely disinfection rates would have been much higher. The research paper says that millions of users bought phony security software via Conficker, so they'd likely respond to a popup invitation.
Here's a copy published in 1911 (words only, but it makes it clear that this song well predates the 1935 date the copyright claimants are pegging their millions on).
Title: The Elementary Worker and His Work Author: Alice Jacobs, et al Year: 1911
Stepper motors have a minimum step, based on the construction of the motor, though many designs permit some fractional stepping. A "regular" electric motor doesn't move in steps, but become imprecise when the amount of force applied is small in relation to internal friction forces.
It's also a function of the machining tolerance of the parts and of the design, including issues of gear backlash - the dead zone that results from a change of direction, where all the looseness of fit in one direction is released and then taken up in the other direction.
What the majority decided is that this was essentially a drafting error. If legal documents and public law drafts could be compiled and executed or analyzed like C code, I'm certain that there'd be loads of errors that could be caught before signing. Imagine shipping a program without ever being able to run it, even once. [Obligatory Microsoft joke to be inserted here.] [Hi Ho.]
This comes up all the time in contract drafting, where initial language gets tightened up and someone has to do a global search for "exchange" and change it to "Exchange" to refer to the defined term. A single misspelled word can prevent that global search from working properly, and a later correction to the misspelling can cover up the error.
I'd love to see all the edits to the ACA with "track changes" turned on.
Low-voltage DC needs 10x more copper for the same power, and extending power runs to "home run" makes the wires even longer. Unless you pay for that extra copper, wiring losses will eat your savings. The big issue with ACDC conversion is that the AC is 60/50 Hz, which means energy storage of 8-10ms x wattage for efficient conversion is required. Better efficiency and lower wiring costs would come from using higher voltage DC and/or higher frequency AC. Aviation, submarines, spacecraft, trains and some industrial tools use 400 Hz AC - which allows for smaller transformers and motors. DCDC converters essentially have internal oscillators to perform the voltage conversion, and can choose an even higher frequency to minimize energy storage time. The reason we're still using 60/50 Hz is because it's the way things always were, just like train gauges are a good match to two horses side-to-side, and perhaps because 60/50Hz hum is less annoying than 400Hz hum - but hum just means that you're losing power to the environment, so it's power efficient to eliminate that anyway.
That being said, when retrofitting incandescent lighting systems with lower-power lighting, it could make sense to use existing wiring at a lower voltage AND LOWER POWER LEVEL. That way the power/voltage conversion could be grouped together in one or a few places so that higher-efficiency converters can be used, but still kept close to the points of use to minimize wiring loss. Unfortunately, the retrofit market is going for power conversion in individual lighting fixtures so one fixture at a time can be changed out.
Plain old walking isn't very safe (>6000 deaths per year average [includes bicyclists]), and much less safe than passengers on a train (7 deaths per year average). Of course, it's because of those other forms of transportation that walking isn't safe.
That false sense of security is just what the public wants. The TSA is doing exactly that for airplanes.
Seriously, consider the recent derailment that has triggered this announcement. They already know the train was accelerating into the curve, and travelling faster than any permanent speed limit would allow. A GPS-based system (including accelerometers to assist the GPS when going through tunnels) would have been able to advise the engineer that the train was travelling at nearly twice the permanent posted speed, perhaps with a loud, audible warning that could alert an engineer that may have been distracted by idiots throwing rocks at the train, (with a time-limited shut-off to handle the case when the GPS is showing the wrong speed or location). It could even, be allowed to stop acceleration and apply brakes if not overridden within a few seconds of its warning by an alert engineer. It could even have a little video camera in it, and store the last 30 minutes of movement. It could even be made as an Android or iPhone app with no hardware development (save the USB-connection to slow the train), so it could be deployed in a matter of months instead of decades, at a cost that wouldn't need an Act of Congress to fund.
But sure, go ahead and give the public what it wants.
So, yes, it's important that safety overrides be designed with a lick or two of sense - such as a override that automatically resets after a limited time, and/or only permits very low-speed operations, and an override that permits operation only if the doors are open less than a few millimeters, and only operates until the next stop. Was that too hard?
Yes, all that may be true, but enforcing permanent speed limits via a self-contained system would have prevented several major accidents and could have been implemented in minimum time and money so it could actually have been deployed. All that fancy-ass consideration has driven up the price and delayed the implementation of anything at all except the sharp wits of a tired old train engineer, who probably doesn't know how worn the wheels are and only remembers a few of the thousands of regulations that some desk jockey put in place without knowing how it was going to affect train operations.
Here's prime example of the perfect being the enemy of the good, and you're failing to see it in front your face. Trains are crashing, dude.
This was predictable based upon the Keeling curve, which has a seasonal oscillation based upon northern hemisphere plant growth. http://www.climatecentral.org/... About two years ago, the peaks of the CO2 concentration measured at Mauna Kea exceeded 400 ppm. Now the average is 400ppm, and in about two years, the trough of the CO2 concentration will exceed 400ppm.
The way things are going that'll be the last point we see 400ppm until the next extinction event.
It was barely noticeable - that's why I went to the USGS site to see what it was. Didn't know we had to edumacate Slashdot on the Richter/Mercalli scale, particularly the editors who choose what random notes to put on the front page. Still, a magnitude 4.0 is a release of more energy than a MOAB http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G... , so I felt it even though 100km away. Those living in Concord would've felt a little more.
An expression of caution following a quake "predicts" many more quakes than will really occur, as the probability is still less than 50%. Knowing of increased probability merely opens considerations of what to do during a "cautionary" period - minor adjustments such as lowering speed on the Transbay tunnel, or postponing crane lifts or tower climbs might be the kinds of things to do, but people may well tire of making these adjustments when nothing happens repeatedly. Bringing all life to a screaming halt or evacuating the cities isn't an appropriate response, but expressing relief at small shocks is what got those Italian scientists/bureaucrats convicted (all but one overturned on appeal). http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
I earned some ridicule today because a 4.0 quake wasn't followed by a larger quake - was even adjusted to a 3.6 magnitude. I was surprised when it posted to the front page - I thought it was just a note that might get combined into some other posting - slow news day, I guess. A few thousand people posted to the "I felt it" links on the USGS and similar sites, and enough people pressed "+" on the firehose to outweigh my own personal "-".
I didn't put it on the front page. I did follow up with a comment that this was a group of 4 quakes, the first of which, magnitude 2.5 was about 10 minutes before the largest at magnitude 4.0. Slashdot's editors must have chosen to ignore the followup. There was another smaller one about an hour later. Yes, 4.0 is a small quake and I wasn't upset about it. Perhaps it would be interesting to note that quakes do follow each other in statistical groupings, so a small quake can indicate another following quake with increased probability - a ten minute warning is arguably more meaningful than the tens of seconds we can get by outrunning the p- and s- waves with electromagnetic waves.
++this. The "Three hops" rule, using a connection factor of 190 (the average number of friends on facebook), you're not a target of surveillance if none of the 5 million people that are friends of friends of friends of you are foreign nationals. http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
(You'll have to drag the slider to 190 to get the 5 million figure.)
The quality hasn't declined - it's just that the media's effort in 24-hour news channels is being deployed to make money rather than inform the public. They're very good at what they do: engage eyeballs and prepare them to absorb commercial messages. CNN and FoxNews (and other news channels) are knowingly crafting over-the-top material and - far from being concerned that they'll be called out by comedians - they're thrilled every time one of their segments makes it to the Daily Show. Beyond that, they return the favor and run segments showing how they're getting the attention of John Stewart. There can never be a negative news story when it's all about capturing your attention.
Regarding Oliver, I think he did a good job of pointing out that the abstract idea of government surveillance hasn't captured the public's attention, and helped the public understand that it's simply and clearly wrong for the government to be Hoovering up all your bits, especially your naughty bits. Citizenfour showed how Snowden was equal parts earnest and naive to think that people wanted to know the extent of these government programs. As he was explaining these programs to Greenwald, he was just becoming aware of how difficult it was going to be to effective in disclosing the leaked information he was leaking. Snowden himself was shocked to discover, after reporters found the figure in his material, that over a million citizens are specific targets of the US programs.There was really only a tiny window for the leaked information to be news before Snowden and where he'd be able to live became the news story that replaced it.
I didn't say she's hypocritical, although she would have to be if she was for women's rights or gay rights. I'll leave it up for her to choose which poison she's harboring.
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Value should be given to the reduction in transmission and distribution costs as well. On my bill the sum of those two items is about the same as the rate for the generation cost.
Hell, there's a charge on my bill to pay off bonds that the California government used to buy power at exorbitant, extortionate rates more than a decade ago during the "energy crisis" created with the "help" of Enron. - that's an extra half cent per kwh that we'll have to pay for freaking ever because politicians got bought out by corporations' "free market" bullshit and overpaid for power for less than a year.
Plus, there's about 8c/kwh that I'm paying for "Conservation Incentives" and another 1c/kwh for "Electric Public Purpose Programs." If all I had to do was pay for fscking power, my bill would be a factor of three smaller. Just saying....
Sunroof doesn't operate in Texas, and perhaps because it's not worth it due to the structure of electricity rates. In California, we've got tiered rates that punish high usage - buying your electricity in Costco-sized bundles costs more than buying it in convenience-store tiny bundles. The statewide solar initiatives (CSI) is done, kaput, played out, but used to pay as much at $2.50/installed-watt or 39c/kwh - but it ended at 20c/installed-watt or 2.5c/kwh. The 30% federal tax credit's the sole big remaining inventive, until the end of 2016.
Here in the Bay Area, one of the few regions where Sunroof actually is operating, residential electric rates start at 16c/kwh (Tier 1), but rise to 19c, 28c, and 34c (Tier 4) as your usage increases over "baseline". If you size your system to knock out Tier 3 & 4 usage via net metering, the payout's much quicker.
If you combine net metering with time-of-use metering, the payout time can be even sooner, as the Weekday (Monday-Friday), "summer" (May-October), Tier 4 rate reaches 49c/kwh at times of high demand and 38c/kwh at medium demand. The high demand period runs 1pm-to-7pm, and medium-demand runs 10am-to-1pm and 7pm-to-9pm, so the sweet-spot daylight times for solar are generally net-metered at medium-demand and high-demand rates. Notably, this means that west-facing solar panels get a sweeter payback than either east-facing or south-facing on a typically-sloped roof.
As a rough figure, this probably puts payback times into the 3-to-7-year range, depending on cost of installation and orientation of the panels. It takes a lot longer to break even if you're trying to zero out your utility bill, because if you try to drive your net-usage all the way to zero, you're net-metering down at the 16c level, actually 13c during "winter" season (November-April). If you oversize your system and try to get a net payment from the utility, they only pay about 3c/kwh for excess power.
As an aside, I used this opportunity to check out the TOU rates to see what the average rate is for, say, a continually-running server, and it looks like the TOU schedule is 0.78c/kwh lower than the standard tiered rate plan. For me, that was one one of the questions to consider whether going for a TOU plan was going to hurt my bill.
For other stereotypical Californians (not me, not me, it's for a friend, really), a grow lights for ...umm... plants might be a similar issue - but typical schedules for grow lights & heat cycles are 12 hours/day - perhaps you can reverse day for night, and grow your plants with off-peak power FTW? Or supplement with actual sunlight during peak hours?
No. Just No. I'd equate that heartless comment to the bitching about the cost of ADA compliance. Safe food is a basic human need. We're not eating at the damned Fountainhead Cafe. You seem to think that it's just economically cheaper to kill all people with allergies, but that's just too cruel to consider.
Here in the US, foods that are labeled that they may contain trace amounts of tree nuts are treated as poison by my wife, and deservedly so because of a strong allergic reaction to tree nuts that has required hospital-level treatment. While it's not literally true that there are no foods not so labelled, it is becoming alarmingly rare to find packaged food without allergy warnings. There are a few manufacturers that do keep their equipment nut-free and market their products as such at premium prices.
I contacted one company that had a nut-free product, who switched their labels to include the warning, and they responded that certain of their products, that were marketed through Costco were still nut-free, but the Costco product includes the warning label as well. If this behavior is representative, I really think product safety legislation is going to have to fix this so that persons with allergies are still able to purchase food. Frankly, it's terrible behavior on the part of food manufacturers, and I'd much rather have legislation that requires manufacturers to properly clean their equipment instead of simply labeling their food as poison.
The news article claimed that researchers had control over the botnet, but the research paper implies otherwise, simply that the control network was rendered inaccessible.
Did Conficker have something to prevent a takeover, such as using a public key signature to verify update code?
If they were able to inject a popup window informing the user of the infection, surely disinfection rates would have been much higher. The research paper says that millions of users bought phony security software via Conficker, so they'd likely respond to a popup invitation.
Here's a copy published in 1911 (words only, but it makes it clear that this song well predates the 1935 date the copyright claimants are pegging their millions on).
Title: The Elementary Worker and His Work
Author: Alice Jacobs, et al
Year: 1911
https://books.google.com/books...
Stepper motors have a minimum step, based on the construction of the motor, though many designs permit some fractional stepping. A "regular" electric motor doesn't move in steps, but become imprecise when the amount of force applied is small in relation to internal friction forces.
It's also a function of the machining tolerance of the parts and of the design, including issues of gear backlash - the dead zone that results from a change of direction, where all the looseness of fit in one direction is released and then taken up in the other direction.
What the majority decided is that this was essentially a drafting error. If legal documents and public law drafts could be compiled and executed or analyzed like C code, I'm certain that there'd be loads of errors that could be caught before signing. Imagine shipping a program without ever being able to run it, even once. [Obligatory Microsoft joke to be inserted here.] [Hi Ho.]
This comes up all the time in contract drafting, where initial language gets tightened up and someone has to do a global search for "exchange" and change it to "Exchange" to refer to the defined term. A single misspelled word can prevent that global search from working properly, and a later correction to the misspelling can cover up the error.
I'd love to see all the edits to the ACA with "track changes" turned on.
Low-voltage DC needs 10x more copper for the same power, and extending power runs to "home run" makes the wires even longer. Unless you pay for that extra copper, wiring losses will eat your savings. The big issue with ACDC conversion is that the AC is 60/50 Hz, which means energy storage of 8-10ms x wattage for efficient conversion is required. Better efficiency and lower wiring costs would come from using higher voltage DC and/or higher frequency AC. Aviation, submarines, spacecraft, trains and some industrial tools use 400 Hz AC - which allows for smaller transformers and motors. DCDC converters essentially have internal oscillators to perform the voltage conversion, and can choose an even higher frequency to minimize energy storage time. The reason we're still using 60/50 Hz is because it's the way things always were, just like train gauges are a good match to two horses side-to-side, and perhaps because 60/50Hz hum is less annoying than 400Hz hum - but hum just means that you're losing power to the environment, so it's power efficient to eliminate that anyway.
That being said, when retrofitting incandescent lighting systems with lower-power lighting, it could make sense to use existing wiring at a lower voltage AND LOWER POWER LEVEL. That way the power/voltage conversion could be grouped together in one or a few places so that higher-efficiency converters can be used, but still kept close to the points of use to minimize wiring loss. Unfortunately, the retrofit market is going for power conversion in individual lighting fixtures so one fixture at a time can be changed out.
Plain old walking isn't very safe (>6000 deaths per year average [includes bicyclists]), and much less safe than passengers on a train (7 deaths per year average).
Of course, it's because of those other forms of transportation that walking isn't safe.
http://journalistsresource.org...
That false sense of security is just what the public wants. The TSA is doing exactly that for airplanes.
Seriously, consider the recent derailment that has triggered this announcement. They already know the train was accelerating into the curve, and travelling faster than any permanent speed limit would allow. A GPS-based system (including accelerometers to assist the GPS when going through tunnels) would have been able to advise the engineer that the train was travelling at nearly twice the permanent posted speed, perhaps with a loud, audible warning that could alert an engineer that may have been distracted by idiots throwing rocks at the train, (with a time-limited shut-off to handle the case when the GPS is showing the wrong speed or location). It could even, be allowed to stop acceleration and apply brakes if not overridden within a few seconds of its warning by an alert engineer. It could even have a little video camera in it, and store the last 30 minutes of movement. It could even be made as an Android or iPhone app with no hardware development (save the USB-connection to slow the train), so it could be deployed in a matter of months instead of decades, at a cost that wouldn't need an Act of Congress to fund.
But sure, go ahead and give the public what it wants.
So, yes, it's important that safety overrides be designed with a lick or two of sense - such as a override that automatically resets after a limited time, and/or only permits very low-speed operations, and an override that permits operation only if the doors are open less than a few millimeters, and only operates until the next stop. Was that too hard?
Yes, all that may be true, but enforcing permanent speed limits via a self-contained system would have prevented several major accidents and could have been implemented in minimum time and money so it could actually have been deployed. All that fancy-ass consideration has driven up the price and delayed the implementation of anything at all except the sharp wits of a tired old train engineer, who probably doesn't know how worn the wheels are and only remembers a few of the thousands of regulations that some desk jockey put in place without knowing how it was going to affect train operations.
Here's prime example of the perfect being the enemy of the good, and you're failing to see it in front your face. Trains are crashing, dude.
Yes, Except for hollow optical fibers. Dunning-Kruger yourself.
http://www.engadget.com/2013/0...
So you're in agreement that it's anthropogenic.
This was predictable based upon the Keeling curve, which has a seasonal oscillation based upon northern hemisphere plant growth. http://www.climatecentral.org/... About two years ago, the peaks of the CO2 concentration measured at Mauna Kea exceeded 400 ppm. Now the average is 400ppm, and in about two years, the trough of the CO2 concentration will exceed 400ppm.
The way things are going that'll be the last point we see 400ppm until the next extinction event.
Refuted: https://www.skepticalscience.c...
It was barely noticeable - that's why I went to the USGS site to see what it was. Didn't know we had to edumacate Slashdot on the Richter/Mercalli scale, particularly the editors who choose what random notes to put on the front page. Still, a magnitude 4.0 is a release of more energy than a MOAB http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G... , so I felt it even though 100km away. Those living in Concord would've felt a little more.
An expression of caution following a quake "predicts" many more quakes than will really occur, as the probability is still less than 50%. Knowing of increased probability merely opens considerations of what to do during a "cautionary" period - minor adjustments such as lowering speed on the Transbay tunnel, or postponing crane lifts or tower climbs might be the kinds of things to do, but people may well tire of making these adjustments when nothing happens repeatedly. Bringing all life to a screaming halt or evacuating the cities isn't an appropriate response, but expressing relief at small shocks is what got those Italian scientists/bureaucrats convicted (all but one overturned on appeal). http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
I earned some ridicule today because a 4.0 quake wasn't followed by a larger quake - was even adjusted to a 3.6 magnitude. I was surprised when it posted to the front page - I thought it was just a note that might get combined into some other posting - slow news day, I guess. A few thousand people posted to the "I felt it" links on the USGS and similar sites, and enough people pressed "+" on the firehose to outweigh my own personal "-".
I didn't put it on the front page. I did follow up with a comment that this was a group of 4 quakes, the first of which, magnitude 2.5 was about 10 minutes before the largest at magnitude 4.0. Slashdot's editors must have chosen to ignore the followup. There was another smaller one about an hour later. Yes, 4.0 is a small quake and I wasn't upset about it. Perhaps it would be interesting to note that quakes do follow each other in statistical groupings, so a small quake can indicate another following quake with increased probability - a ten minute warning is arguably more meaningful than the tens of seconds we can get by outrunning the p- and s- waves with electromagnetic waves.
If only it had some concept of citizen's right to privacy. Instead, it breathlessly celebrates the death of the 4th amendment.
++this. The "Three hops" rule, using a connection factor of 190 (the average number of friends on facebook), you're not a target of surveillance if none of the 5 million people that are friends of friends of friends of you are foreign nationals. http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
(You'll have to drag the slider to 190 to get the 5 million figure.)
The quality hasn't declined - it's just that the media's effort in 24-hour news channels is being deployed to make money rather than inform the public. They're very good at what they do: engage eyeballs and prepare them to absorb commercial messages. CNN and FoxNews (and other news channels) are knowingly crafting over-the-top material and - far from being concerned that they'll be called out by comedians - they're thrilled every time one of their segments makes it to the Daily Show. Beyond that, they return the favor and run segments showing how they're getting the attention of John Stewart. There can never be a negative news story when it's all about capturing your attention.
Regarding Oliver, I think he did a good job of pointing out that the abstract idea of government surveillance hasn't captured the public's attention, and helped the public understand that it's simply and clearly wrong for the government to be Hoovering up all your bits, especially your naughty bits. Citizenfour showed how Snowden was equal parts earnest and naive to think that people wanted to know the extent of these government programs. As he was explaining these programs to Greenwald, he was just becoming aware of how difficult it was going to be to effective in disclosing the leaked information he was leaking. Snowden himself was shocked to discover, after reporters found the figure in his material, that over a million citizens are specific targets of the US programs.There was really only a tiny window for the leaked information to be news before Snowden and where he'd be able to live became the news story that replaced it.
I didn't say she's hypocritical, although she would have to be if she was for women's rights or gay rights. I'll leave it up for her to choose which poison she's harboring.