information extracted by torture is well known to be unreliable, while very effective ways of getting information and cooperation have been perfected for decades....but our government still went with the torture. Says a lot about the kind of contemptible thug scum we have running the place, doesn't it?
so is getting your crotch fondled without probable cause, or getting your bank account frozen for a month while bill checks bounce just because you deposited or spent more than your "usual" amount of money....but since we're now a police state instead of a democratic republic with rights none of that matters anymore
yes, just as the TSA's vigilance has stopped many terrorists including the underwear and shoe bomber. and planes no longer drop out of the sky like hail.
no, I'm a paying customer and I will set my thermostat at whatever level I see fit, seeing as there is no shortage of energy (even fossil fuel energy) on planet earth and conservation is just like Roman Catholic self-flagellation for some false imagined guilt over use of something that is abundant and cheap, with only artificial scarcity created by the corruption of you by the petro-dollar cartel and by allowing greedy speculators who are neither producers nor consumers to exchange paper wealth in a fabricated market to distort the true costs. The truth is that the increased energy usage of the past few centuries has prolonged life and increased quality of life. I am rejecting your letter and returning it, please fold it into an origami that is all sharp edges, and jam it violently and deeply into your anus.
we can build in many deserts areas, we have hundreds of square miles of places with no important ecosystem at all, essentially just rock and sand and whatever little life is there isn't unique, isn't endangered and exists elsewhere. Gen III and IV reactors don't need active cooling and can't possibly do things that the Gen I and II plants designed in the 1950s have done.
such hypocrisy to even think it's an issue. almost all men jerk off, over 95%. At least 70% of all men with internet access watch porn. Thirty percent of women with internet access watch porn (fire up the search engine and verify my words).
and they were invented thousands of years ago, and known to prevent disease and pregnancy. But our prudish society in the USA is so very backward we think it's a recent invention.
no, increasing efficiency is a matter of some percent gain, bringing (for example) a few two-gigawatt thorium breeder sites trumps any possible little efficiency gain. You are aware that half or more the energy produced at a plant MUST be wasted, the second law of thermodynamics will be an 800 lbs. gorilla in the room while you are trying to squeeze some ten percent more out of the grid? You remind me of a company I worked at, where they stopped new R&D of products for months to have everyone waste time on "profit improvement" ideas that would get the company a few thousand dollars here or there, while work on the products that would bring in tens of millions a year was halted.
there are a multitude of very common disintegrations plus common cosmic ray events that the detector picks up, these are filtered when searching data for significant events, but they do allow calibration and verification
yes, and a more robust power grid (instead of ones with 70+ year old transformers) from non-fossil sources. Pave the deserts with solar panels, get gen iv thorium breeder reactors online that can't melt down even if not actively cooled, put wind farms where its horribly windy, etc. Let's have abundant energy from non-polluting sources rather than rationing out fossil fuel power with a "smart grid", because that just prolongs the current stupidity.
as former manager of the engineering/design group of a power switching systems company, I know a bit about smart grids. But how in the U.S. are we going to get away from the evil of the U.S. government and the mega-corporations that have it in its pocket? A smart grid in *those* hands becomes a tools of yet more artificial scarcity creation, more throttling/restrictions/capping, and a "kill switch" for the government. Instead of bringing online the cheap abundant energy of this earth, we'll be rationing the fossil fuels for another century. The first priority isn't a "smart grid", it's alternative energy (and integrating that into the "dumb grid" by decades old means works well enough). This "smart grid" and all this wailing about conserving is at this point in time a distraction from the core issue, that there is no shortage of energy on planet earth. A health growing civilization uses energy; we should be *increasing* our use of energy, not decreasing it.
why repeal any tax cuts. instead lets cut taxes in half and reduce the federal government by a factor of ten to an impotent shadow of its former self. 90% of what is does is unnecessary.
you still have to operate over government controlled, regulated, and monitored pipes, to end nodes that are subject to search and seizure. don't waste your time.
no, it will be made with transistors, diodes, SCRs, inductors, capacitors and resistors. The integrated chip-chauvinist powers that be will never recognize it as a digital computational device!
Ha! The United States government is owned and operated by mega-corporations, the banking cartel foremost of those. Obama is a puppet with the mega-corporations pulling his strings, which is why he continued the bailouts, why he continues war without end or reason, why the healthcare bill had no robust public option but instead will further enrich big healthcare and big pharmy and big insurance, why we increase our use of fossil fuels, why the patriot act and other acts that took away our freedoms continue.
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how about realist? please do tell how you imagine to effect change to our system
http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/pdf/intel_interrrogation_sept-1992.pdf
information extracted by torture is well known to be unreliable, while very effective ways of getting information and cooperation have been perfected for decades....but our government still went with the torture. Says a lot about the kind of contemptible thug scum we have running the place, doesn't it?
so is getting your crotch fondled without probable cause, or getting your bank account frozen for a month while bill checks bounce just because you deposited or spent more than your "usual" amount of money....but since we're now a police state instead of a democratic republic with rights none of that matters anymore
yes, just as the TSA's vigilance has stopped many terrorists including the underwear and shoe bomber. and planes no longer drop out of the sky like hail.
Dear Government,
no, I'm a paying customer and I will set my thermostat at whatever level I see fit, seeing as there is no shortage of energy (even fossil fuel energy) on planet earth and conservation is just like Roman Catholic self-flagellation for some false imagined guilt over use of something that is abundant and cheap, with only artificial scarcity created by the corruption of you by the petro-dollar cartel and by allowing greedy speculators who are neither producers nor consumers to exchange paper wealth in a fabricated market to distort the true costs. The truth is that the increased energy usage of the past few centuries has prolonged life and increased quality of life. I am rejecting your letter and returning it, please fold it into an origami that is all sharp edges, and jam it violently and deeply into your anus.
Respectfully yours,
Rubycodez
we can build in many deserts areas, we have hundreds of square miles of places with no important ecosystem at all, essentially just rock and sand and whatever little life is there isn't unique, isn't endangered and exists elsewhere. Gen III and IV reactors don't need active cooling and can't possibly do things that the Gen I and II plants designed in the 1950s have done.
there are quite a few countries developing them (and have them running, btw). Just because the U.S. is backward doesn't mean the rest of the world is
i don't drink coffee but my nose is burning from the cola ejaculated out of my nose
such hypocrisy to even think it's an issue. almost all men jerk off, over 95%. At least 70% of all men with internet access watch porn. Thirty percent of women with internet access watch porn (fire up the search engine and verify my words).
and they were invented thousands of years ago, and known to prevent disease and pregnancy. But our prudish society in the USA is so very backward we think it's a recent invention.
if it exists, it is a genre of japanese porn
who the fuck still pays for movies?
no, you philistine. it's all about the dialog. those erudite scripts don't write themselves, you know.
false, people already are selling such power back to the dumb grid with existing technology. That was a done deal decades ago.
no, increasing efficiency is a matter of some percent gain, bringing (for example) a few two-gigawatt thorium breeder sites trumps any possible little efficiency gain. You are aware that half or more the energy produced at a plant MUST be wasted, the second law of thermodynamics will be an 800 lbs. gorilla in the room while you are trying to squeeze some ten percent more out of the grid? You remind me of a company I worked at, where they stopped new R&D of products for months to have everyone waste time on "profit improvement" ideas that would get the company a few thousand dollars here or there, while work on the products that would bring in tens of millions a year was halted.
there are a multitude of very common disintegrations plus common cosmic ray events that the detector picks up, these are filtered when searching data for significant events, but they do allow calibration and verification
yes, and a more robust power grid (instead of ones with 70+ year old transformers) from non-fossil sources. Pave the deserts with solar panels, get gen iv thorium breeder reactors online that can't melt down even if not actively cooled, put wind farms where its horribly windy, etc. Let's have abundant energy from non-polluting sources rather than rationing out fossil fuel power with a "smart grid", because that just prolongs the current stupidity.
as former manager of the engineering/design group of a power switching systems company, I know a bit about smart grids. But how in the U.S. are we going to get away from the evil of the U.S. government and the mega-corporations that have it in its pocket? A smart grid in *those* hands becomes a tools of yet more artificial scarcity creation, more throttling/restrictions/capping, and a "kill switch" for the government. Instead of bringing online the cheap abundant energy of this earth, we'll be rationing the fossil fuels for another century. The first priority isn't a "smart grid", it's alternative energy (and integrating that into the "dumb grid" by decades old means works well enough). This "smart grid" and all this wailing about conserving is at this point in time a distraction from the core issue, that there is no shortage of energy on planet earth. A health growing civilization uses energy; we should be *increasing* our use of energy, not decreasing it.
why repeal any tax cuts. instead lets cut taxes in half and reduce the federal government by a factor of ten to an impotent shadow of its former self. 90% of what is does is unnecessary.
you still have to operate over government controlled, regulated, and monitored pipes, to end nodes that are subject to search and seizure. don't waste your time.
You must like getting your junk freedom-fondled at the airport.
no, it will be made with transistors, diodes, SCRs, inductors, capacitors and resistors. The integrated chip-chauvinist powers that be will never recognize it as a digital computational device!
Ha! The United States government is owned and operated by mega-corporations, the banking cartel foremost of those. Obama is a puppet with the mega-corporations pulling his strings, which is why he continued the bailouts, why he continues war without end or reason, why the healthcare bill had no robust public option but instead will further enrich big healthcare and big pharmy and big insurance, why we increase our use of fossil fuels, why the patriot act and other acts that took away our freedoms continue.
those tools can only work through government controlled, regulated and monitored pipes. In the final analysis, futile.