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  1. Re:GM might find that very difficult, on GM Commits To 100% Renewable Energy By 2050 (cleantechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Too bad these "superior to windmills" systems are nothing but pipe dreams.

  2. Re:They are pledging to something in 30+ years on GM Commits To 100% Renewable Energy By 2050 (cleantechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Even when fusion becomes commercially viable, it will still cost an effing fortune to build and maintain the staggeringly complex generating plants.
    On the other hand, solar + storage is dropping in cost exponentially.

  3. Our tithing does not make its way into leaders' pockets.

    Then who pays their salaries?

  4. During my mission, those from the US paid $350 / month while Brazilians paid R$100 / month. There is a general missionary fund available for those unable to pay.

    But the point is that, since the LDS church has billions of tax-free dollars stashed away, it's ridiculous that missionaries have to pay anything.

  5. I'm not saying they're ungenerous, rather what I'm saying is that they spend rather lavishly on shit that ultimately doesn't even matter.

    I say they are ungenerous, in that all of that palace-building money is raised tax free. Not a cent goes to public schools, roads, medical care or security.

  6. If a myth is corroborated by scientific fact, such as archaeological evidence, is it still a myth? Or is it history?

    Usually what happens is that there turn out to be nuggets of truth in amongst the mythology.

  7. Yep, you're a coward all right.
    You claim the grandparent's definitions of "myths", "supernatural", "evidence" are incorrect, but you don't offer your own supposedly correct definition.

    i am not going to clarify your vague confusions due to your own willful ignorance for you. and do look up and use correct definitions of words, i will not do that for you either.

    That's exactly what a coward who thinks "I must be right, even though I can't explain why, so nyah!".

  8. Re:The FBI over Clinton already justify his pardon on House Committee: Edward Snowden's Leaks Did 'Tremendous Damage' (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The cases I know of where there was criminal prosecution involve deliberate moves of classified material to unauthorized places

    Unauthorized places, like someone's unsecured computer in an unsecured home?

  9. Re:Complete nonsense on Robots Will Eliminate 6% of All US Jobs By 2021, Says Report (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You just have to create a law saying no unattended automobiles (trucks) allowed. And the attendant must be certified. Problem solved.

    What problem are you referring to?

  10. Re:Race implications on Robots Will Eliminate 6% of All US Jobs By 2021, Says Report (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    That's right.
    After all, if you kill everybody, then nobody is unemployed!

  11. Re:Race implications on Robots Will Eliminate 6% of All US Jobs By 2021, Says Report (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    But then you've got the yahoos who will claim that parenting is bad and should be looked at by the state. And in the same breath claim that reading to children gives them an unfair advantage. So, children who are in two parent households need to have them broken to give those single-parent families the same advantage.

    Only in your fevered imagination.

  12. Re: Another way to look at this is.. on Robots Will Eliminate 6% of All US Jobs By 2021, Says Report (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Like the best SNES games, if you play though the game just right, you get the good ending.

    Good thing we all live in a SNES game. I think I will jump up and grab some coins now.

  13. Re:Another way to look at this is.. on Robots Will Eliminate 6% of All US Jobs By 2021, Says Report (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    But many will do better than you condescendingly suppose.

    But not most, and that will be a huge problem.

  14. But.. there is no spoon!

  15. Re:Yes, if all he'd done was reveal domestic spyin on ACLU Is Launching A Campaign To Convince President Obama To Pardon Edward Snowden (fusion.net) · · Score: 1

    However, his revelations of the NSA's foreign activities crossed the line and makes him a patriot.

    FTFY.

  16. Re:It's just another fundraiser. on ACLU Is Launching A Campaign To Convince President Obama To Pardon Edward Snowden (fusion.net) · · Score: 1

    Those right-wing kooks are almost as bad as the ultimate right-wing kook.
    That would be you, cold_fjord.

  17. Re:A real comparison? on Steve Wozniak May Swap His Tesla For A Chevy Bolt (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    My 18-year-old Honda CRV reached 305K recently. Never spent a cent apart from oil changes, filter changes, tires etc.

  18. Re:"I do not recollect" on FBI Releases Hillary Clinton Email Report (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps she never got any. It is the government; they do fsck up

    Not when it comes to security, they don't.
    All high-level federal employees are required by law to attend a security briefing annually.

  19. Re:Have they considered an inside job? on One of Europe's Biggest Companies Loses 40 Million Euros In Online Scam (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    That's my bet.
    That or "wire the money and claim it was a mistake, if you don't want your family full of bullet holes".

  20. I wonder if a drunk who tells a Tesla to drive him home (while using a pair of ViseGrips to grip the wheel) would be safer than having him drive himself.

    I suspect that the answer is yes. If so, even the present version of "autopilot" would save thousands of lives.

  21. Re:Not that big a deal, really... on EmDrive: NASA Eagleworks' Peer-Reviwed Paper Is On Its Way (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    True, but "peer reviewed" is generally better than "not peer reviewed" because at least the most ridiculous nonsense should have been filtered out.
    On the other hand, the "peers" of an idiot are, by definition, idiots themselves.

  22. Re:hare brained "skepticism" on EmDrive: NASA Eagleworks' Peer-Reviwed Paper Is On Its Way (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    "zero point energy"

    Another well known example of crackpot fraud.

  23. Like all Dyson products, these batteries will suck.

  24. 0% accuracy qualifies as "up to 70% accuracy".

  25. Re: Fuck mdsolar on New Mexico Nuclear Accident Ranks Among the Costliest In US History (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It would still cost fucking billions to build, and the taxpayer would have to underwrite it since no private insurance company would touch it.