Well, that's all well and good for you people in areas that don't have 99.8 percent green energy like we in Seattle do.
Meanwhile, I just shelled out $150 to buy one unit of the Seattle Aquarium solar panel array, which will reduce my annual already green electric bill by about $46 until around 2035.
You have fun with your 1 or 2 percent gains - we're cooking with green energy and leaving you in the DUST!
(caveat - we pump out more solar, biofilm, biofuel, wind, and energy patents every year than the rest of you do, just at the UW itself here in Seattle)
Nobody is 'really' royalty... a family conquers and sets themselves up as a dynasty by asserting themselves to be kings and queens.
To some of us, anybody who professes to be royalty is an in-bred idiot with a sense of entitlement who should STFU and go away.
To quote Monty Python... Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
Strange women don't lie in ponds, they hover mysteriously after dwelling beneath the surface in a mystical connection between water and air.
And then everyone suspends disbelief and doesn't demand they see if they weigh more than a wooden duck.
Yes, I am sure about that. Former USSR nations tend to not trust virtual currency, so they use US paper bills - mostly $1000 and $100 bills.
Up to 50 percent of all "US currency" in those countries is counterfeit.
Which is why they're replacing those bills. Most Americans never - ever - use $100 or $1000 bills. Generally, we use $20 and $50 and anything bigger we do by credit card or debit card or wire.
So we now make our money safe by implementing security means they had in their money for a decade now, because we know they don't have access to that kind of sophisticated technology. Uhhuh.
Makes about as much sense as anything coming out of capitol hill lately.
Part of the issue is that there are not 'more' jobs being made to replace the ones that disappear now, as the general trend is for fewer employees at all levels of industry. Consider the VCR. Back in the day there were 20 brands, each making their own hardware. Now (if VCRs were still being made) it would be 20 brands that exist only as shell companies, each just repackaging the same hardware from 2-3 Chinese companies.
Except originally there were two brands of VCRs - and each had a different format (VHS and Beta).
The twenty brands thing didn't happen for quite a few years.
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Exactly - the capsule is the size of a VW Beetle - but has less legroom than the old one.
Wrong. I buy Green Up and Green Power, which means my bill is normally $12 more a month, which pays for 99.8 percent green power.
Adapt or die.
Basically, this guy flew into space in something the size of a VW Beetle.
Think about that.
No guts.
No glory.
He had both.
Solar power is currently cheaper than wind energy.
Wind energy is currently cheaper than oil and competitive with non-subsidized coal and gas.
Any questions?
The invisible hand already weighed in, and resistance is futile.
actually, this provides shade. If you'd ever lived in the desert, you'd get why that's good.
Well, that's all well and good for you people in areas that don't have 99.8 percent green energy like we in Seattle do.
Meanwhile, I just shelled out $150 to buy one unit of the Seattle Aquarium solar panel array, which will reduce my annual already green electric bill by about $46 until around 2035.
You have fun with your 1 or 2 percent gains - we're cooking with green energy and leaving you in the DUST!
(caveat - we pump out more solar, biofilm, biofuel, wind, and energy patents every year than the rest of you do, just at the UW itself here in Seattle)
I keep getting this thing saying You Need A Plugin to View This Content.
The quick answer - No.
I don't.
It's after 2010, time to move on, plug-ins are for old people.
You misspelled "sammich". :-)
Why are we talking about Lake Sammammish?
I'm thirsty, can you get some iced tea while you're there?
Most slavery was temporary too.
Same diff.
When you get down to it, there's not much difference between unpaid interns and slaves, except the slavemasters get to pretend they have ethics.
Why bother - the NSA will just backdoor it anyway and there will be an even wider door left open.
In my state the Gestapo even searches closed purses.
The out of control Surveillance State is becoming a worse and worse deal every day, right, Wade?
Coins have longer lifespans than bills, actually, so the cost drops.
It will be an internet-enabled Baked Ham.
(blip)
Ooh! It's ready!
Wait while I waddle over to the stove.
(munch munch munch)
Technically, the latter title indicates he was a royal king with claims based on the Frankish invaders, and not a native Celt.
Nobody is 'really' royalty ... a family conquers and sets themselves up as a dynasty by asserting themselves to be kings and queens.
To some of us, anybody who professes to be royalty is an in-bred idiot with a sense of entitlement who should STFU and go away.
To quote Monty Python ... Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
Strange women don't lie in ponds, they hover mysteriously after dwelling beneath the surface in a mystical connection between water and air.
And then everyone suspends disbelief and doesn't demand they see if they weigh more than a wooden duck.
You know, the one where the body spontaneously vaporized in a flash of disbelief ...
There are subtle variations between British English, Canadian English, Australian English, and the bastardized incorrectly spelled American English.
In most of those, yard is correctly spelled either meter or metre.
I'm sure she won't mind ...
At some point we'll do what France and the UK did and phase out the old bills. Probably starting outside of the US itself.
Yes, I am sure about that. Former USSR nations tend to not trust virtual currency, so they use US paper bills - mostly $1000 and $100 bills.
Up to 50 percent of all "US currency" in those countries is counterfeit.
Which is why they're replacing those bills. Most Americans never - ever - use $100 or $1000 bills. Generally, we use $20 and $50 and anything bigger we do by credit card or debit card or wire.
So we now make our money safe by implementing security means they had in their money for a decade now, because we know they don't have access to that kind of sophisticated technology. Uhhuh.
Makes about as much sense as anything coming out of capitol hill lately.
Pretty much.
Next up, 2020, are one and two dollar coins.
Part of the issue is that there are not 'more' jobs being made to replace the ones that disappear now, as the general trend is for fewer employees at all levels of industry. Consider the VCR. Back in the day there were 20 brands, each making their own hardware. Now (if VCRs were still being made) it would be 20 brands that exist only as shell companies, each just repackaging the same hardware from 2-3 Chinese companies.
Except originally there were two brands of VCRs - and each had a different format (VHS and Beta).
The twenty brands thing didn't happen for quite a few years.
Murder for hire is also a market. Being a market does not make it clever or useful or right or desirable.
This is why we have cereal killers.
They refuse to pay $12 for a box of cereal.
Actually, most $100 bill counterfeiting is in the former USSR and adjacent countries.