"North Carolina in general has been very good about solar" meaning there is quite a bit of capacity here and there were decent policies in place a few years ago, not that the current legislature and executive don't fight renewable any way they can, which they do.
Um, yes, I live somewhere you might find ignorant people made into town spokesmen by undereducated and/or unethical reporters. So do you and everyone else here who doesn't yet live on Mars.
More likely your property value's trashed because of the should-be-condemned structure next door with the trees growing through pickup shells in the front yard.
How many have even been "down east" North Carolina? I find acres of PVs no less appealing to look at than acres of tobacco, dilapidated barns and silos, rusting mobile homes, chicken or pork processing plants, or mega warehouses. If it was either soybeans or PVs, that's one thing. But it's often just idle fields or something worse, like tobacco or enormous distribution warehouses. Has the town ever limited cell phone towers or rotting vehicles permanently planted in front yards?
When something bad happens, we normally look for the guilty party or at least a scapegoat. Now we get "was hidden". Who hid it? What individual inserted CISA into the budget bill? Why don't all the major news outlets say "Rep. Smith inserted CISA into the budget bill"?
Personal preference, I guess. I hate cold weather. Boone is the worst. That cold wind rips through you. Rain sucks too. As long as I can wear shorts and sandals or preferably go barefoot, I'd rather have the heat. Sure, less humidity is nicer, but it's not that big a deal. I do, however, think "down east" is horrible in the summer. Between Raleigh and close to the coast is not just hot and humid, but it's flat, there's no breeze, there are more pines than hardwoods, and the bug population is legendary. Yuck. I'm pissing off my neighbors to the east, but I can't imagine a life in Kinston or Goldsboro or Fayetteville.
True enough. I'm sure I'll offend someone, but IMO the worst of the worst drivers wear Maryland plates. I have no idea why they're so bad, either.
I've found NoVa to be about 5 degrees F below Piedmont NC in the winter with a little bit more slush. Not much different weatherwise except it's quite a bit further from warmer southerly states for winter escapes.
Pickups in general have a high margin. Priced one lately? For vehicles with dead-simple Hotchkiss rear ends, stamped-steel front suspensions, and nothing but sheet metal behind the cabs, they're awfully expensive.
Expected to, and increasingly, designed to. Unfortunately, new general-purpose autos and more specialized vehicles are being built the same way. If I drive an ordinary moderately-priced sedan for 200k miles for 15 years and it's just about dust, I figure I've gotten the value out of it and my next will use less fuel, be safer, possibly more comfortable, and might have better performance. If I manage to buy a rather impractical sports car to drive less often and it rots to dust in 25 years and every component wears out, no chance of rebuilding them, I'm pretty upset.
Good riddance. I can't imagine you did anything to help with such a positive attitude as that. I suppose you're returning to NJ?
For anyone contemplating a move to NC, there ARE a lot of idiots here, as in most places. There are also some very nice places, people-wise and nature-wise. Choose your home town—area of town even—wisely. Historically, NC has been ahead of the rest of the South and has tried harder to improve, but there's been some backsliding and there's some danger of serious regression. So come on in and help us get back on track.
What a crock. There are many progressive, intelligent spots in NC outside of the Triangle.
However, like most everywhere else these days, much of the state is populated by people who prefer to remain ignorant. Which is bad news for little things like education, justice, and individuals' rights, all of which have suffered mightily in recent years after decades of improvement. The nice part is that those people dislike the intelligent spots and mostly stay away.
However, I agree with "I curse the name of Zuckerberg each time I realize that my view of Facebook has been switched from "Most Recent" to "Top Stories" -- Top Stories according to whom?"
This'll end up being run sort of like ATCS Monitor—a network of sensors contributing to a tracking system. Police will eventually have to employ countermeasures—either allowing multiple identical plates, no plates, or changeable plates—to prevent criminals from knowning where all the patrol cars are located at any one time. Criminals will just swap plates frequently or disguise them somehow, but then we'll recognize them as criminals, right? The rest of us have nothing to hide, so we'll submit to tracking, right?
Perhaps I should've been more specific—not necessarily Venetians in 1450 but US lawmakers in 1790. Sure there was corruption then, but I don't think they would've set up something as ugly as what we have now if they could've avoided it.
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"North Carolina in general has been very good about solar" meaning there is quite a bit of capacity here and there were decent policies in place a few years ago, not that the current legislature and executive don't fight renewable any way they can, which they do.
Not so the roof, though. Just covering the roofs wouldn't be insignificant.
Um, yes, I live somewhere you might find ignorant people made into town spokesmen by undereducated and/or unethical reporters. So do you and everyone else here who doesn't yet live on Mars.
More likely your property value's trashed because of the should-be-condemned structure next door with the trees growing through pickup shells in the front yard.
Exactly.
How many have even been "down east" North Carolina? I find acres of PVs no less appealing to look at than acres of tobacco, dilapidated barns and silos, rusting mobile homes, chicken or pork processing plants, or mega warehouses. If it was either soybeans or PVs, that's one thing. But it's often just idle fields or something worse, like tobacco or enormous distribution warehouses. Has the town ever limited cell phone towers or rotting vehicles permanently planted in front yards?
When something bad happens, we normally look for the guilty party or at least a scapegoat. Now we get "was hidden". Who hid it? What individual inserted CISA into the budget bill? Why don't all the major news outlets say "Rep. Smith inserted CISA into the budget bill"?
A meaningful apology would be immediately firing the person who sent the threat and anyone else in a position to remedy it but who chose not to.
Richards??? I'm thinking more like Weird Al.
Don't mean that in a bad way, and she did a pretty darn good job at EFF.
If you're not on a watch list, you're not doing anything worthwhile.
Personal preference, I guess. I hate cold weather. Boone is the worst. That cold wind rips through you. Rain sucks too. As long as I can wear shorts and sandals or preferably go barefoot, I'd rather have the heat. Sure, less humidity is nicer, but it's not that big a deal. I do, however, think "down east" is horrible in the summer. Between Raleigh and close to the coast is not just hot and humid, but it's flat, there's no breeze, there are more pines than hardwoods, and the bug population is legendary. Yuck. I'm pissing off my neighbors to the east, but I can't imagine a life in Kinston or Goldsboro or Fayetteville.
True enough. I'm sure I'll offend someone, but IMO the worst of the worst drivers wear Maryland plates. I have no idea why they're so bad, either.
I've found NoVa to be about 5 degrees F below Piedmont NC in the winter with a little bit more slush. Not much different weatherwise except it's quite a bit further from warmer southerly states for winter escapes.
since none of these idiots seems to understand "shortage" means the price is below an equilibrium value.
Pickups in general have a high margin. Priced one lately? For vehicles with dead-simple Hotchkiss rear ends, stamped-steel front suspensions, and nothing but sheet metal behind the cabs, they're awfully expensive.
Expected to, and increasingly, designed to. Unfortunately, new general-purpose autos and more specialized vehicles are being built the same way. If I drive an ordinary moderately-priced sedan for 200k miles for 15 years and it's just about dust, I figure I've gotten the value out of it and my next will use less fuel, be safer, possibly more comfortable, and might have better performance. If I manage to buy a rather impractical sports car to drive less often and it rots to dust in 25 years and every component wears out, no chance of rebuilding them, I'm pretty upset.
"I am leaving North Carolina soon, for good"
Good riddance. I can't imagine you did anything to help with such a positive attitude as that. I suppose you're returning to NJ?
For anyone contemplating a move to NC, there ARE a lot of idiots here, as in most places. There are also some very nice places, people-wise and nature-wise. Choose your home town—area of town even—wisely. Historically, NC has been ahead of the rest of the South and has tried harder to improve, but there's been some backsliding and there's some danger of serious regression. So come on in and help us get back on track.
I'll take the hot, humid summers any day over the crappy winters everywhere north of Virginia.
"North Carolina, by and large, doesn't have a lot of people wanting to live there."
False. For better or worse, NC population has been growing for a long time.
What a crock. There are many progressive, intelligent spots in NC outside of the Triangle.
However, like most everywhere else these days, much of the state is populated by people who prefer to remain ignorant. Which is bad news for little things like education, justice, and individuals' rights, all of which have suffered mightily in recent years after decades of improvement. The nice part is that those people dislike the intelligent spots and mostly stay away.
...SOCA says people who think cause trouble.
Didn't BASIC come from Dartmouth? Haven't they caused enough damage already?
However, I agree with "I curse the name of Zuckerberg each time I realize that my view of Facebook has been switched from "Most Recent" to "Top Stories" -- Top Stories according to whom?"
This'll end up being run sort of like ATCS Monitor—a network of sensors contributing to a tracking system. Police will eventually have to employ countermeasures—either allowing multiple identical plates, no plates, or changeable plates—to prevent criminals from knowning where all the patrol cars are located at any one time. Criminals will just swap plates frequently or disguise them somehow, but then we'll recognize them as criminals, right? The rest of us have nothing to hide, so we'll submit to tracking, right?
Huh. Thanks, I'd never heard of that.
Perhaps I should've been more specific—not necessarily Venetians in 1450 but US lawmakers in 1790. Sure there was corruption then, but I don't think they would've set up something as ugly as what we have now if they could've avoided it.
Sanford's great grandson is going to be salvaging that stuff someday.
So... salvage laws... wonder if maritime laws will be extended to space someday?