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  1. Re:ok then... but on New Study Says Governments Should Ditch Reliance On Biofuels · · Score: 1

    If you are going to do that. you may as well build two dams instead of the two pile of gravels.

  2. Re:Let's have a War on Corn! (Re:Obama oops...) on New Study Says Governments Should Ditch Reliance On Biofuels · · Score: 1

    And much like antibiotics . DDT resistant mosquitoes are a thing.

  3. Re:Censorship? on Blogger Who Revealed GOP Leader's KKK Ties Had Home Internet Lines Cut · · Score: 1

    Socialism: Helping out the less fortunate
    Christian: Not helping out the less fortunate?

  4. Re:Censorship? on Blogger Who Revealed GOP Leader's KKK Ties Had Home Internet Lines Cut · · Score: 1

    However if you introduce geographical as well as party so you have 4 groups. As a percentage more northern democrats then northern republicans voted for the bill. And in the south no republicans voted for it while some democrats did.

  5. Re:Nothing has been lost! on Bitcoin Volatility Puts Miners Under Pressure · · Score: 1

    That logic works with any modern currency system.

    Even if it is linked to Gold. Unless you are using it for its physical properties, the fact that it is valuable is because of scarcity. So we attach an artificial value based on our human needs to want what is scarce.

    Currency in general is just common agreement to scale work for goods and services. Because we live in a world where we cannot get everything we want.
    Bit Coins are actually more real then the US Dollar. Sure we get a paper or coin note stating that this represents so much. But at least bit coin is connected to something in limited supply thus needs to be shared.

    Tell me how much food you can buy with bitcoins when there is no electricity.
    Then we'll talk about what is real.

    Does that mean cards(Credit or debit) are not real?

  6. Re:Bitcoin on Bitcoin Volatility Puts Miners Under Pressure · · Score: 1

    Going down is not that expensive. (atmospheric breaking)

  7. Re:"plenty of flat land to go around on Elon Musk Plans To Build Hyperloop Test Track · · Score: 1

    First to create a workable, marketable, functional-in-the-real-world electric cars and created the first new successful car company in the US in decades to design, build, and sell them.

    Actually, that was Ford but the market didn't exist to support the concept in the short term. Elon just happened to have a ton of cash at the time that the technology matured and other automakers were feeling the bite of a bad economy.

    So Ford did not create a workable/marketable electric car then.

  8. Re:Uninterested people aren't worth it on How Bitcoin Could Be Key To Online Voting · · Score: 1

    I am in Australia. I can vote at any polling booth in the state (except for council elections which is any in the council area) and some of the ones in other states if I am interstate.

    I can think of one group that does not have licenses. Older people, they feel like they can't drive safely and so do not get a licence.

    And to get photo ID in most cases you need a birth certificate. To get that you need a photo ID. If you have neither you are in trouble.

  9. Re:Uninterested people aren't worth it on How Bitcoin Could Be Key To Online Voting · · Score: 1

    Voter suppression is asking you to give up two hours of work to go and get the ID then making you have to wait in line for 6 hours to actually vote because their is not enough people hired for the booth,

  10. Re:Secret Ballot? on How Bitcoin Could Be Key To Online Voting · · Score: 1

    How do you verify that the real one was counted and not the duress one?

  11. Re:Fuck the libs! on Bill Would Ban Paid Prioritization By ISPs · · Score: 1

    Nope. They are all probably using the one companies equipment in the exchange. But due to the law down here the other companies are allowed to use it along with the local lines.

  12. Re: noooo on 2014: Hottest Year On Record · · Score: 1

    That is to replace the nuclear plants that were shut down. And what is the latest year a coal plant started planing?

  13. Re:GPL vaccine on Happy Public Domain Day: Works That Copyright Extension Stole From Us In 2015 · · Score: 1

    In the same way as the closed-sourced code is free to use for open-source projects.

  14. Re:Good news, bad news on What Happens To Society When Robots Replace Workers? · · Score: 1

    And where will the rich place their farms to get their food?

  15. Re:Oh boy, rewind to the Spanish Inquisition! on Skeptics Would Like Media To Stop Calling Science Deniers 'Skeptics' · · Score: 1

    Funny I was thinking it was the coal companies who wanted to spend millions to build a grid to get power to the poor rather then a simple solar panel + battery setup

  16. Re:Are they really that scared? on Why Elon Musk's Batteries Frighten Electric Companies · · Score: 1

    People who go solar are essentially the freeloaders in this system as they pay less of the overhead for the amount of transmission service they receive.

    Is that the same as people who use less power paying less then those who use more?

  17. Re:Mass produce! on Jackie Chan Discs Help Boost Solar Panel Efficiency · · Score: 1

    Where are you getting 1c/kwh power from currently?

  18. Re:My two cents... on Rooftop Solar Could Reach Price Parity In the US By 2016 · · Score: 1

    Besides, on average, solar power users produce power during the day, when demand is high and the cost of production is relatively high (because peaker plants are expensive). They consume power mostly at night, when demand is low and the cost of production is low. So no matter how long a cycle you average it over, the power plants are making a big profit from buying relatively cheap solar power instead of expensive natural gas peaker plant power (while selling that power at the same price). That more than pays for the negligible marginal grid maintenance costs arising out of providing power to one extra home.

    Technically it is the grid not the powerplants that get the profit.

  19. Re:My two cents... on Rooftop Solar Could Reach Price Parity In the US By 2016 · · Score: 1

    If I run the same amount of current in two directions down my wire what extra costs are their over the other guy who just runs it in one way?

    (In other words the cost should be the max of either but not the combined max of both)

  20. Re:Correction on First Commercial Mission To the Moon Launched From China · · Score: 1

    Deliberately moving to the moon to fix problems in their orbits but not planned from the start.

  21. Re:Correction on First Commercial Mission To the Moon Launched From China · · Score: 1

    Apparently it ended up under the control of the DoD

  22. Re:China is more capitalistic than the USA on First Commercial Mission To the Moon Launched From China · · Score: 1

    And the more checks you put in the money you have to spend making the checks and less money on the people who need it.

  23. Re:Not really true AI we should be worried about. on Elon Musk Warns Against Unleashing Artificial Intelligence "Demon" · · Score: 1

    I would argue flushable toilets in the city are a need. Unless you can think of a way to remove all the waste another way

  24. Re:Automation and jobs on Automation Coming To Restaurants, But Not Because of Minimum Wage Hikes · · Score: 1

    And did the social engineers who created the current system pay the price for it's failures?

    Or are taxpayers paying for the full time workers who can't get enough money to be above poverty?

  25. Re:Not contradictory on Password Security: Why the Horse Battery Staple Is Not Correct · · Score: 2

    Sorry the calculation should be
    10,000 * 16 * 100 * 2 * 2 = 6.4 * 10^8