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  1. Re:Incorrect re Earth already in Peril on Electoral College Elects Donald Trump As President (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Then roll your own. If you're a rugged individual, why are you sending somebody money to buy more expensive fossil fuels instead of replacing inefficient utility energy with cheaper self made energy?

    Idaho, a very red state, has tons of wind and solar. Utah does. Texas does.

    The market cares nothing about your excuses of not living by your own convictions.

  2. Re:30k is a hell of a lot of money to me on Electoral College Elects Donald Trump As President (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    A Yaris gets a lot of mpg. If you live in an area where few people live, it's probably a better choice to drive said Yaris than a plug-in electric car.

    Or you could stop driving all the time, grandpa.

    Fun Fact: most people under 35 don't drive. At all. Or only on vacation or trips. It's you old people that drive.

    I'm not here to save you. I'm just saying changes already set in motion will continue in motion, because Economics say only Stupid Morons will choose less optimal More Expensive options like fossil fuels.

    Capitalism doesn't care. The market will merely make your kids poor. We in the urban cities will do quite fine. You're not hurting us. You're hurting yourself and those you care about.

  3. Incorrect re Earth already in Peril on Electoral College Elects Donald Trump As President (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Fun Fact: The majority of emissions in the US come from states which literally are taking action, no matter what the feds say.

    Fun Fact: US solar power (in annual output per device) literally doubled in the last three months.

    Fun Fact: All - and I do mean all - fossil fuels are much more expensive than both solar and wind. Today. In the USA.

    Fun Fact: plug in electric vehicles - which are mostly used in cities which have green energy, and are frequently charged by solar panels - literally doubled in the US during the last six months. There's a factory in Detroit that churns out 600 of them a day. Range 200 miles on a charge. Costs less than 30k.

    It really doesn't matter what you do, we're changing the world already. And we will leave you in the dust with more efficient, CHEAPER, green energy and more efficient factories.

    Capitalism doesn't care about your failed ideology or your political persuasions. It literally does. not. care.

  4. Re: When will they get enough? on China Chokes On Smog So Bad That Planes Can't Land (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Democracies elect the majority vote holder. Or in the event of a multiparty system, the largest vote holder in ranked order.

    The US isn't a democracy. Trump lost by (last count) 2,900,000 votes.

    Seriously, does nobody take Civics anymore?

    Facts are Facts.

    If you wish to pretend a Republican system is a Democracy, go ahead, but it isn't.

    Certain states have democratic elements. For example, Governors elected by the popular vote of all but prisoners. Real democracies let prisoners vote (see Canada). For example, Initiatives or other voting matters. Some of those have non Democracy elements, for example a 2/3 majority requirement or a 60 percent requirement.

    But under no circumstances could US Federal Presidential elections, which use the non Democracy method of the Electoral College, be described as a "Democracy".

    It is not.

    FACT.

  5. Re:When will they get enough? on China Chokes On Smog So Bad That Planes Can't Land (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a dictatorship. No one sticks their neck out because it won't matter.

    And we are?

    Don't even pretend we're a democracy.

  6. They should build copied Chevy Bolts on China Chokes On Smog So Bad That Planes Can't Land (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Just saying.

  7. Strange, it's as if they had Free Will on Most Firefox Users Still Running Windows 7 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Just because your corporate greed needs you to junk stuff to force people to pay you on a continuing subscription basis, doesn't mean we see any point in "upgrading".

    Most of our machines are Linux btw. They don't show up in your metrics, because we don't spend hundreds of thousands of dollars for each machine, but only thousands, and they do about 100 times more actual work.

    Enjoy failure.

  8. Re:Bad citizens of the world on Pentagon: Chinese Ship Captures US Underwater Drone Fom Sea (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    It is clear that China does whatever it wants and doesn't give a damn about international law. They've had wiggle room in other cases, but this is blatant, flat-out theft in broad daylight with witnesses.

    maybe the US Navy should stop escorting Chinese merchant vessels in risky areas and let pirates sink them?

  9. The problem is massive fossil fuel subsidies on World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper Than Wind (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Subsidies for archaic expensive outmoded fossil fuels are the problem.

    No cost for pollution.

    Exemptions for older less efficient fossil fuel plants.

    Subsidies for fossil fuel extraction on public and private lands at rates often 1/1000th what they would be in a capitalist non-taxpayer-subsidized market.

    Exemptions from costs for oil spills and the ability to go bankrupt and let the taxpayer pay for the cleanup.

    In the last three months the total solar generation of power in the US has literally DOUBLED. Because, even with the massive fossil fuel subsidies, solar is cheaper than all forms of fossil fuels.

    Read that again: solar is cheaper than all forms of fossil fuels.

    And, yes, we can use variable energy sources to charge loads in places like Taiwan and even North Korea. So, are you SERIOUSLY saying America can't do BETTER than that?

  10. Re:It's a good test of skill on White House Supports Claim Putin Directed US Election Hack (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    First of all, there's little enough to demonstrate any corruption. Second of all, the RNC was also hacked, and yet not a whiff of those emails has ever made it into the public view. Other than some old Trump tax returns, the RNC's leak has produced nothing. So while you're declaring Russia hacking the DNC is the bestest thing ever, haven't you thought about this long to ask "Why can't I go look up any RNC emails?"

    Technically a small amount of RNC emails were leaked, but only enough to blackmail the holdouts. It was in WaPo in August. You might have missed that.

  11. Re:Trump is Putins poodle on White House Supports Claim Putin Directed US Election Hack (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    Oh, he knows. So do half of his cabinet appointments.

    That's the problem.

  12. This is a correct statement on White House Supports Claim Putin Directed US Election Hack (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    Look, you're not cleared.

    It did happen. It was Putin. No, we're not going to "prove" it to you - which would expose the toolsets, methods, individuals, etc.

    Just because your life is filled with fake news doesn't mean Russia didn't intentionally subvert US elections.

    They're not your friends.

  13. Fairly sure Uber is a Pretzel on Uber Appeals Against Ruling that Its UK Drivers Are Workers (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    If it was a car service, it would have workers.

    Since it doesn't have workers, it's a pretzel.

    And thus it can be eaten and tossed into the compost.

  14. Re:Really makes the neurons fire on Google Publishes Eight National Security Letters (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Didn't the USA fight two separate wars to end this kind of behavior?

    In fact, it's two of the amendments to the US Constitution, normally referred to as the Bill of Rights.

  15. You can't stop us from thinking on Florida Court Says Suspected Voyeur Must Reveal His iPhone Passcode To Police (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    My password is del *.* /s | Y

  16. To be frank it's the only show on Prime I want on Grand Tour 'Most Illegally Downloaded TV Show In History' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Was just going to binge watch at some point at the rels, but there is no way in heck I'm paying $100 for that.

  17. The only people I know with Surface are the ones who own MSFT stock.

    I'll believe this when I see it in the real world

  18. Re:Declare Election Invalid! on President Obama Orders Review of Cyber Attacks On 2016 Election (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Why?

    Because Americans are sheep.

  19. Agreed, she won by millions of votes, and if we lived in a Democracy, she'd be President, even with the foreign vote hacking.

    But, unlike Governors, and County Execs, and Mayors, they set this fake Electoral College up to deny us our choice.

  20. Re:Obama has no right to do this on President Obama Orders Review of Cyber Attacks On 2016 Election (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    This is unbelievable for an ousted president.

    He's twice as popular as Trump. Not ousted at all.

  21. Re:Trump lost by millions on President Obama Orders Review of Cyber Attacks On 2016 Election (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Latest mil sec news - it's public, i'm not going to do your work for you

  22. Re:Trump lost by millions on President Obama Orders Review of Cyber Attacks On 2016 Election (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I stand by my provably true statement.

  23. Trump lost by millions on President Obama Orders Review of Cyber Attacks On 2016 Election (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    And this is a good investigative start to some of the glaring discrepancies.

  24. One rule for the rich, another for the commoners on Audi Cars Now Talk To Stop Lights In Vegas (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Just keep "adding features".

    Eventually, you'll meet the guillotines.

  25. Or, a geneticist could instead say on Cesarean Births Could Be Affecting Human Evolution, Study Says (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Or, someone in genetics could instead observe:

    1. the age of the mother increases the birth weight
    2. the nutrition provided to the mother increases the birth weight
    3. availability of pre-natal care (vitamins, medical interventions) increases the birth weight

    An observation that the birth weight is increasing in a short span does not indicate that humans are genetically changing. Human women used to be 5'4" on average as adults, and in some countries are now 6'. A 6' woman would tend to have a larger baby.

    Now, if you want to talk about elephants developing to not have tusks, that's evolution in action.