I was taught, leave your fork and knife hanging off the plate until you are done and then place the fork and knife clearly on the plate so it can be picked up without them falling when you are done. Have you heard of that or is it local?
I've also heard it makes a difference if the silverware are parallel, plus-shaped, or x-shaped in some countries/restaurants. Ever hear of that?
I don't mind a little small talk if I actually recognize the waitstaff and they are giving me a sincere smile (as opposed to a fake smile) because they remember me (and my tip) from a prior visit. I especially like the waitstaff who remember my preferences from the prior visit. It's very different on the 10th visit with the same waitstaff vs the 1st visit. For one thing, I know it won't be a new person next time. In my experience, high turnover usually (but not always!) means lower quality service.
I don't feel a waiter has to "hover" to provide good service and can manage 4 tables at a high level of service. And they don't have to interrupt the guest's conversation to see at a glance that the guest's glass is under half full.
I guess we disagree on why populations are against nuclear power plants.
I don't know *anyone* against nuclear plants due to nuclear weapons tho. No one thinks a nuclear plant might explode.
New "safe" reactors don't matter. The nuclear industry *had* its chance. It over sold the benefits and grossly undersold the costs. As a result, any new designs are assumed to have less benefits, to be less safe, and to have higher cost than they are promoted having.
The fundamental reasons Cherynobl and Fukishima failed were human decisions. As long as humans are in the loop, nuclear power is inherently risky. Only fully automated nuclear power could be safe.
I support the idea of fully automated small plants as part of the grid.
I agree with you that carbon credits are very dicey. They are just too subject to political manipulation. They are too far divorced from reality.
Germany is 3 years ahead of schedule on renewables as of 2017. It's up to 37% and on some days generates more than 100% of it's power from renewable sources.
But they need to start using video. They can have an A.I. backup and if it contradicts the humans they should consider it's input.
With billions of dollars at stake, corruption of the sport is inevitable. And it only takes one veritably corrupt referee in a major game to ruin the sport with a huge scandal.
I also have concerns about maintenance costs. Especially around batteries.
I don't think nuclear has problems due to nuclear weapons. I think it is separate in the public mind. Nuclear power has 3 mile island, cherynobl, fukishima, and nuclear waste disposal. Humans are sloppy and cost cutting when it comes to nuclear power. It's just not a good mix. And ratepayers see the surcharge on their bills and now know that old nuclear plants cost much much much more to decommission than they were told. They are paying for their parents artificially "cheap" electricity in past decades.
Coal has actually made more land uninhabitable due to coal seam fires but that doesn't get much press. There's also a big mercury bomb waiting to break from coal exhaust pre 2015. I was surprised to find many old plants were grandfathered and polluting as much as ever until 2015.
On africa, I did a little more digging and africa is way behind the rest of the world. Only 16 gigawatts of renewable energy added between 2012 and 2017. As compared to 328 gigawatts in China. So I agree, they are not doing well. And I realized I fell into the speculative trap in my prior african posts. Those are projections thru 2025. I actually had to dig a lot harder to get the historical 2012 to 2017 data.
China, the US and India account for 2/3 of renewable growth thru 2022 (a projection and so speculative but short term).
Here's where some of the new data comes from. I was trying to stick with historical data but 2022 is close enough we can verify that and it's probably more reliable than projections for 2040.
On thing that interested me was that china's demand for solar recently exceeded it's production for solar. So that might tighten the global market short term.
> When I reach for my glass, it should never be empty.
I can't stand them constantly dropping by my table. I'd rather have to motion for their attention if I want more to drink. Different Strokes for Different Folks, and so on and so on an dooby-dooby-dooby....
> If I start polite small talk then make polite small talk briefly but don't try to start it yourself.
Some people (not me) like for wait-staff to take the initiative on this because it makes them more comfortable....starting to see a pattern?
Do you like for them to sit down at your table, tell you their name and then proceed to chat instead of taking your order?
I don't. That's my right. I brought my date or my kids or whatever to eat at the restaurant for me. I don't want a new friend who's 30 years younger and who won't be there 3 weeks later when I go in anyway.
> "I hope you have a nice day/enjoy your meal/whatever" plays better than "Have a nice day, enjoy your meal whatever." One is your hope and the other is a command from you.
Really? Now I just realized that you're a fucking piece of shit human being and should have your head caved in with a hammer it a the earliest possible opportunity by the "Be a fucking decent human being police!". Holy Fucking Shit! What a fucking Jack-Ass!
I think going nuclear over a difference in preferences is a much better display of being a jackass. Take your meds man. Calm down.
> I tip well. At family owned restaurants I'm often offered off menu items and I even tip at buffets $1 despite the fact that I get my own food and drink and it galls me.
Just don't eat at Buffet's. Or don't tip at them. It's your choice. Why would you do something that "Galls" you? It sounds like you're into being "Passive Aggressive" instead of making your boundaries clearly known. Don't be such a fucking pussy!
Jesus Christ. For 40 years of my life, you went to a buffet- you got your own damn food, you sat down, ate it and you left. Then 3 years ago they started taking the straws hostage and changed the busboys into "waiters"... who don't take your order, don't bring your food or drinks.. all they do is give you a damn straw that you used to be able to get yourself when you got your drink. And then they wanted to be tipped. It's a scam by the business. not the "wait staffs" fault.
But excuse me, it pisses me off because they are *NOT* *FUCKING* *WAITSTAFF* if they don't take your order, don't bring your food, don't bring your drink, and you don't even pay them.
> I don't like absent service and I don't like overly familiar service.
Yeah, I'm sure all the "Servers" out there can't wait to "Read" your disturbed mind!
I've had many good servers. They keep my drink full without needing to intrude and ask me. They take my order correctly and bring it to my table while it's still hot. And I tip them well. That's the deal. Good server== great tips. As I said before, good waitstaff really likes me and offers me off menu items. Because I'm pleasant and tip very well and my needs are really small- just keep my drink full inobtrusively and get my order right and back back to me in a reasonable time.
> I probably wouldn't like a server who wanted to discuss politics.
Some would though. Everything can't always be perfectly to your liking. Get a grip man!
Yup. And if they keep intruding and bringing up politics, get my order wrong, make me sit waiting for a refill til the food is cold, then they get a small or no tip. I know of no restaurants that feature waiters who bring up politics like some internet troll.
Somehow... that topic never comes up with wait staff when I go to restaurants.
What I hate is when they act like my fake friend and actually sit down at the table.
I want professional service. When I reach for my glass, it should never be empty.
If I start polite small talk then make polite small talk briefly but don't try to start it yourself.
"I hope you have a nice day/enjoy your meal/whatever" plays better than "Have a nice day, enjoy your meal whatever." One is your hope and the other is a command from you.
I tip well. At family owned restaurants I'm often offered off menu items and I even tip at buffets $1 despite the fact that I get my own food and drink and it galls me.
I don't like absent service and I don't like overly familiar service.
I probably wouldn't like a server who wanted to discuss politics.
We are reaching a point where we can't trust photographic or video evidence without a secure chain of custody. With enough power, anything can be corrupted/faked.
I agree my comment is redundant and the original comment has been resurrected from 0 status up to a 3.
Thanks moderators! You can let the redundant comment die to 0.
I get modded down at times and it's fair. Happens to everyone. But sometimes, the modding seems unfair and more about suppressing an opinion someone personally doesn't like.
When I'm moderating I do scan the 0 and -1 comments before I upmod any positive comments.
In college, I was picked to be on an academic honesty hearing and we did find the girl guilty of blatant cheating (including copying mistakes). We were lenient and only gave her a 0 for that test.
Some places like west point, you are done after one offense.
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I get that the "one test determines your life" approach in these countries is horrific.
They need to address that. At least with opportunities for retesting.
Accepting cheating would be destructive to the education system. Businesses could not trust that qualified students were really qualified. It would be like having the school system accreditation removed.
Actually.. if you look at energy trends for africa, it's very similar. Nuclear stays about the same, coal shrinks, and wind, solar, and hydro grow to close to half.
Google "power generation trends in africa"
There are business sites (not government). Solar, wind and Hydro are apparently all well suited to Africa.
One thing holding back personal solar is that so much of the capacity is pre-sold to large utilities. And by presold-- I mean at some companies, every square inch they can produce for the next two years is sold in huge batches to utilities around the world.
On the flip side, when those facilities are built, very inexpensive solar might become available for private use in a big glut.
And yes, of course wind, solar, and hydro (even combined) are not the total picture or answer for all climates and locations. There will continue to be a role for coal and natural gas. But even those are already starting to use battery backups. This means they don't have to spin up turbines. And batteries can respond instantly. And they don't need as many turbines as a result.
I find it ludicrous that a comment saying cheaters are bad would be modded down.
What's the world coming to.
Cheaters are bad.
They ruin things for everyone who is and can actually do the task legitimately.
Doesn't matter if it's body building (where they now look more like ball shaped aliens than body builders), sports (where they die years too early and break records set by people who were not cheating), or screw up the reputation of their education system when they go to a new job and do terribly.
Glad Algeria is taking education seriously. It's foundational and critical.
While you could change the graph starting further out, I think the next 3 years is pretty solid at this point. Nothing in the literature indicates they are getting close to the limits of current solar and battery technology and nothing indicates Nuclear is suddenly going to become cheaper or more acceptable.
Solar has been less expensive than coal for a couple years now and it's still getting less expensive.
I think some indication of how speculative the graph is would be useful. I agree that the 21 to 30 year period is complete speculation and the period from 11 to 20 years is fairly speculative. For example, while I'm confident in saying the projections up to about 2025 pass a reasonableness check (based on the fact solar is already cheaper and the current status of nukes), I am not confident of things at 2028 (okay maybe 2030) onwards.
Discussion is still productive to the degree that people engage, think, and do research. If they are just spewing stuff out their rear end then it's useless to read and useless for them to say it.
I'm not a big fan of switching houses. I'm more a fan of a powerwall approach. Costs for those are dropping sharply and they can be set up to charge from solar as well as line power and then provide A/C to the house as needed when electricity is expensive or unavailable. . I think the point of use topic you raise will surprise businesses. And speculatively- I think they will do their best to block it. (not so speculative- Florida has already done so).
They ruin things for everyone who is and can actually do the task legitimately.
Doesn't matter if it's body building (where they now look more like ball shaped aliens than body builders), sports (where they die years too early and break reacords set by people who were not cheating), or screw up the reputation of their education system when they go to a new job and do terribly.
Glad Algeria is taking education seriously. It's foundational and critical.
I don't think you've read the bible. There are numerous sections which say lying is sinful and a passage that says that the enemy of yahweh is the lord of lies.
When I grew up in this country, christians were against lying. That's changed for many republicans over the last two decades.
They've been corrupted. The ends justify the means to them.
Mr. Trump is definitely not a christian. When asked for a single verse from the bible, he couldn't name one. Not one. When asked what he had to repent for, he said he felt no need to repent for anything. Mr. Trump is a 75 year old spoiled brat protected from reality his entire life.
I'm an atheist and I know many good christians and I know more about the bible than Mr. Trump (and well many christians as I frequently discuss religion and find their knowledge of their own religious dogma to be appalling at times).
Well, if you were just disagreeing with me then more power to you man. Freedom of speech.
Apparently I misread it as telling folks to stop discussing it. As that is not your intent, I apologize for that part of my response.
We can certainly disagree.
And I agree with your basic point that predictions are speculation and increasingly so the further we get into the future. But saying "Speculation is unreliable" in a discussion forum that is inherently going to be about speculation is non-productive and maybe even a bit ironic.
Seems like this much mass moving would have an effect on the surrounding plates.
It's currently subducting under the south american plate. Seems like it could snap off and cause tsunami's along thousands of miles of south american coast line.
The global nuclear war interesting. Humans failed to Opt In that day to tell the machine not to attack. Because humans had failed to respond in the past, automated systems insured a massive counterstrike against the first attack which provoked a massive response that ended life on the planet. We found recordings from humans just before the end saying, "Even tho it was a series of automated responses that ended life on this planet, it was not A.I."
The OP said "1+1=5" and I said, "No, 1+1=2" and you said, "But what about the cost of tea in china?"
It's really not possible to have a discussion with someone who is trolling or lying as trump and his supporters do constantly. Even his new Executive Order is really not going to fix anything and is (surprise!) another lie.
And this whole thing was probably an attempt to move the subject off of Mueller since Cohen and Manafort were nailed. Cohen has dirt going back decades and he's sounding increasingly surprised and irritated that Mr. Trump is hanging Cohen out to dry.
But meantime, a couple thousand kids might not ever see their parents again in their lives. Including a 9 month old baby.
This is immoral and evil.
And someone else did a much better job (and sourced) job of correcting the liar I was responding to to begin with.
The silliest thing in the world to me is when someone comes to an internet discussion group and tells everyone else to stop talking.
I mean.. come on man. Might as well go to the coast and yell at the waves coming in to stop.
However.. the costs I mentioned for nuclear are not speculation. They are established historical facts now.
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It's much more expensive to decommission a reactor than was projected back in the 60s. And today's utility users and tax payers are paying the cost for the unreasonably cheap power their parents got to use.
It's much more expensive to store and provide security for nuclear wastes than they projected. $8 million a year in today's dollars for the next few hundred years for one site that was mentioned in the news.
Someone else confidently stated that battery prices were not getting cheaper and capacity wasn't going up. That was outright false and easy to google.
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As you are a waiter, could you answer this?
I was taught, leave your fork and knife hanging off the plate until you are done and then place the fork and knife clearly on the plate so it can be picked up without them falling when you are done. Have you heard of that or is it local?
I've also heard it makes a difference if the silverware are parallel, plus-shaped, or x-shaped in some countries/restaurants. Ever hear of that?
I don't mind a little small talk if I actually recognize the waitstaff and they are giving me a sincere smile (as opposed to a fake smile) because they remember me (and my tip) from a prior visit. I especially like the waitstaff who remember my preferences from the prior visit. It's very different on the 10th visit with the same waitstaff vs the 1st visit. For one thing, I know it won't be a new person next time. In my experience, high turnover usually (but not always!) means lower quality service.
I don't feel a waiter has to "hover" to provide good service and can manage 4 tables at a high level of service. And they don't have to interrupt the guest's conversation to see at a glance that the guest's glass is under half full.
You said it with fewer words. Exactly!
I guess we disagree on why populations are against nuclear power plants.
I don't know *anyone* against nuclear plants due to nuclear weapons tho. No one thinks a nuclear plant might explode.
New "safe" reactors don't matter. The nuclear industry *had* its chance. It over sold the benefits and grossly undersold the costs. As a result, any new designs are assumed to have less benefits, to be less safe, and to have higher cost than they are promoted having.
The fundamental reasons Cherynobl and Fukishima failed were human decisions. As long as humans are in the loop, nuclear power is inherently risky. Only fully automated nuclear power could be safe.
I support the idea of fully automated small plants as part of the grid.
I agree with you that carbon credits are very dicey. They are just too subject to political manipulation. They are too far divorced from reality.
Germany is 3 years ahead of schedule on renewables as of 2017. It's up to 37% and on some days generates more than 100% of it's power from renewable sources.
No.. human referees are part of the game.
But they need to start using video. They can have an A.I. backup and if it contradicts the humans they should consider it's input.
With billions of dollars at stake, corruption of the sport is inevitable. And it only takes one veritably corrupt referee in a major game to ruin the sport with a huge scandal.
Exactly. And so far Short Sellers have lost over a billion dollars (or is it 2 billion now?)
They are desperate and doing anything they can to sabotage Tesla.
And we have to recognize they might succeed. It's not a fair market.
I also have concerns about maintenance costs. Especially around batteries.
I don't think nuclear has problems due to nuclear weapons. I think it is separate in the public mind. Nuclear power has 3 mile island, cherynobl, fukishima, and nuclear waste disposal. Humans are sloppy and cost cutting when it comes to nuclear power. It's just not a good mix. And ratepayers see the surcharge on their bills and now know that old nuclear plants cost much much much more to decommission than they were told. They are paying for their parents artificially "cheap" electricity in past decades.
Coal has actually made more land uninhabitable due to coal seam fires but that doesn't get much press. There's also a big mercury bomb waiting to break from coal exhaust pre 2015. I was surprised to find many old plants were grandfathered and polluting as much as ever until 2015.
On africa, I did a little more digging and africa is way behind the rest of the world. Only 16 gigawatts of renewable energy added between 2012 and 2017. As compared to 328 gigawatts in China. So I agree, they are not doing well. And I realized I fell into the speculative trap in my prior african posts. Those are projections thru 2025. I actually had to dig a lot harder to get the historical 2012 to 2017 data.
China, the US and India account for 2/3 of renewable growth thru 2022 (a projection and so speculative but short term).
Here's where some of the new data comes from. I was trying to stick with historical data but 2022 is close enough we can verify that and it's probably more reliable than projections for 2040.
https://www.iea.org/publicatio...
On thing that interested me was that china's demand for solar recently exceeded it's production for solar. So that might tighten the global market short term.
Bet you can't tell the difference between parmesan and dandruff.
You certainly can't tell the difference between rewarding good service with stellar and being rude.
> When I reach for my glass, it should never be empty.
I can't stand them constantly dropping by my table. I'd rather have to motion for their attention if I want more to drink. Different Strokes for Different Folks, and so on and so on an dooby-dooby-dooby....
> If I start polite small talk then make polite small talk briefly but don't try to start it yourself.
Some people (not me) like for wait-staff to take the initiative on this because it makes them more comfortable....starting to see a pattern?
Do you like for them to sit down at your table, tell you their name and then proceed to chat instead of taking your order?
I don't. That's my right. I brought my date or my kids or whatever to eat at the restaurant for me. I don't want a new friend who's 30 years younger and who won't be there 3 weeks later when I go in anyway.
> "I hope you have a nice day/enjoy your meal/whatever" plays better than "Have a nice day, enjoy your meal whatever." One is your hope and the other is a command from you.
Really? Now I just realized that you're a fucking piece of shit human being and should have your head caved in with a hammer it a the earliest possible opportunity by the "Be a fucking decent human being police!". Holy Fucking Shit! What a fucking Jack-Ass!
I think going nuclear over a difference in preferences is a much better display of being a jackass. Take your meds man. Calm down.
> I tip well. At family owned restaurants I'm often offered off menu items and I even tip at buffets $1 despite the fact that I get my own food and drink and it galls me.
Just don't eat at Buffet's. Or don't tip at them. It's your choice. Why would you do something that "Galls" you? It sounds like you're into being "Passive Aggressive" instead of making your boundaries clearly known. Don't be such a fucking pussy!
Jesus Christ. For 40 years of my life, you went to a buffet- you got your own damn food, you sat down, ate it and you left.
Then 3 years ago they started taking the straws hostage and changed the busboys into "waiters"... who don't take your order, don't bring your food or drinks.. all they do is give you a damn straw that you used to be able to get yourself when you got your drink. And then they wanted to be tipped. It's a scam by the business. not the "wait staffs" fault.
But excuse me, it pisses me off because they are *NOT* *FUCKING* *WAITSTAFF* if they don't take your order, don't bring your food, don't bring your drink, and you don't even pay them.
> I don't like absent service and I don't like overly familiar service.
Yeah, I'm sure all the "Servers" out there can't wait to "Read" your disturbed mind!
I've had many good servers. They keep my drink full without needing to intrude and ask me. They take my order correctly and bring it to my table while it's still hot. And I tip them well. That's the deal. Good server== great tips. As I said before, good waitstaff really likes me and offers me off menu items. Because I'm pleasant and tip very well and my needs are really small- just keep my drink full inobtrusively and get my order right and back back to me in a reasonable time.
> I probably wouldn't like a server who wanted to discuss politics.
Some would though. Everything can't always be perfectly to your liking. Get a grip man!
Yup. And if they keep intruding and bringing up politics, get my order wrong, make me sit waiting for a refill til the food is cold, then they get a small or no tip. I know of no restaurants that feature waiters who bring up politics like some internet troll.
Somehow ... that topic never comes up with wait staff when I go to restaurants.
What I hate is when they act like my fake friend and actually sit down at the table.
I want professional service. When I reach for my glass, it should never be empty.
If I start polite small talk then make polite small talk briefly but don't try to start it yourself.
"I hope you have a nice day/enjoy your meal/whatever" plays better than "Have a nice day, enjoy your meal whatever." One is your hope and the other is a command from you.
I tip well. At family owned restaurants I'm often offered off menu items and I even tip at buffets $1 despite the fact that I get my own food and drink and it galls me.
I don't like absent service and I don't like overly familiar service.
I probably wouldn't like a server who wanted to discuss politics.
I was at a restaurant yesterday and the manager was desperate because they were short staffed and no one would come in.
Payback is a bitch. If you get a reputation for screwing your workers, you may not have any.
That said, businesses have a valid interest in knowing if the waiters are angering customers.
But they really, really, REALLY need to do a reality check and slide into these new systems slowly or they could find themselves without employees.
Thanks!
I'm assuming that end of the higher plate will rise some too then?
If AI can find it, then AI can hide it too.
We are reaching a point where we can't trust photographic or video evidence without a secure chain of custody.
With enough power, anything can be corrupted/faked.
I agree my comment is redundant and the original comment has been resurrected from 0 status up to a 3.
Thanks moderators! You can let the redundant comment die to 0.
I get modded down at times and it's fair. Happens to everyone. But sometimes, the modding seems unfair and more about suppressing an opinion someone personally doesn't like.
When I'm moderating I do scan the 0 and -1 comments before I upmod any positive comments.
In college, I was picked to be on an academic honesty hearing and we did find the girl guilty of blatant cheating (including copying mistakes). We were lenient and only gave her a 0 for that test.
Some places like west point, you are done after one offense.
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I get that the "one test determines your life" approach in these countries is horrific.
They need to address that. At least with opportunities for retesting.
Accepting cheating would be destructive to the education system. Businesses could not trust that qualified students were really qualified. It would be like having the school system accreditation removed.
Actually.. if you look at energy trends for africa, it's very similar. Nuclear stays about the same, coal shrinks, and wind, solar, and hydro grow to close to half.
Google "power generation trends in africa"
There are business sites (not government). Solar, wind and Hydro are apparently all well suited to Africa.
One thing holding back personal solar is that so much of the capacity is pre-sold to large utilities. And by presold-- I mean at some companies, every square inch they can produce for the next two years is sold in huge batches to utilities around the world.
On the flip side, when those facilities are built, very inexpensive solar might become available for private use in a big glut.
And yes, of course wind, solar, and hydro (even combined) are not the total picture or answer for all climates and locations. There will continue to be a role for coal and natural gas. But even those are already starting to use battery backups. This means they don't have to spin up turbines. And batteries can respond instantly. And they don't need as many turbines as a result.
I find it ludicrous that a comment saying cheaters are bad would be modded down.
What's the world coming to.
Cheaters are bad.
They ruin things for everyone who is and can actually do the task legitimately.
Doesn't matter if it's body building (where they now look more like ball shaped aliens than body builders), sports (where they die years too early and break records set by people who were not cheating), or screw up the reputation of their education system when they go to a new job and do terribly.
Glad Algeria is taking education seriously. It's foundational and critical.
While you could change the graph starting further out, I think the next 3 years is pretty solid at this point. Nothing in the literature indicates they are getting close to the limits of current solar and battery technology and nothing indicates Nuclear is suddenly going to become cheaper or more acceptable.
Solar has been less expensive than coal for a couple years now and it's still getting less expensive.
I think some indication of how speculative the graph is would be useful. I agree that the 21 to 30 year period is complete speculation and the period from 11 to 20 years is fairly speculative. For example, while I'm confident in saying the projections up to about 2025 pass a reasonableness check (based on the fact solar is already cheaper and the current status of nukes), I am not confident of things at 2028 (okay maybe 2030) onwards.
Discussion is still productive to the degree that people engage, think, and do research. If they are just spewing stuff out their rear end then it's useless to read and useless for them to say it.
I'm not a big fan of switching houses. I'm more a fan of a powerwall approach. Costs for those are dropping sharply and they can be set up to charge from solar as well as line power and then provide A/C to the house as needed when electricity is expensive or unavailable.
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I think the point of use topic you raise will surprise businesses. And speculatively- I think they will do their best to block it. (not so speculative- Florida has already done so).
Cheaters suck.
They ruin things for everyone who is and can actually do the task legitimately.
Doesn't matter if it's body building (where they now look more like ball shaped aliens than body builders), sports (where they die years too early and break reacords set by people who were not cheating), or screw up the reputation of their education system when they go to a new job and do terribly.
Glad Algeria is taking education seriously. It's foundational and critical.
I don't think you've read the bible. There are numerous sections which say lying is sinful and a passage that says that the enemy of yahweh is the lord of lies.
When I grew up in this country, christians were against lying. That's changed for many republicans over the last two decades.
They've been corrupted. The ends justify the means to them.
Mr. Trump is definitely not a christian. When asked for a single verse from the bible, he couldn't name one. Not one. When asked what he had to repent for, he said he felt no need to repent for anything. Mr. Trump is a 75 year old spoiled brat protected from reality his entire life.
I'm an atheist and I know many good christians and I know more about the bible than Mr. Trump (and well many christians as I frequently discuss religion and find their knowledge of their own religious dogma to be appalling at times).
Well, if you were just disagreeing with me then more power to you man. Freedom of speech.
Apparently I misread it as telling folks to stop discussing it. As that is not your intent, I apologize for that part of my response.
We can certainly disagree.
And I agree with your basic point that predictions are speculation and increasingly so the further we get into the future. But saying "Speculation is unreliable" in a discussion forum that is inherently going to be about speculation is non-productive and maybe even a bit ironic.
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Fair enough but I don't recognize folks who religously defend the last jedi or president trump.
I might recognize you if you are the original New York City Lawyer. But you may not be.
Slashdot is so 1990s in capability and format.
Seems like this much mass moving would have an effect on the surrounding plates.
It's currently subducting under the south american plate.
Seems like it could snap off and cause tsunami's along thousands of miles of south american coast line.
It interacts with six other plates in total.
The global nuclear war interesting. Humans failed to Opt In that day to tell the machine not to attack. Because humans had failed to respond in the past, automated systems insured a massive counterstrike against the first attack which provoked a massive response that ended life on the planet. We found recordings from humans just before the end saying, "Even tho it was a series of automated responses that ended life on this planet, it was not A.I."
The OP said "1+1=5" and I said, "No, 1+1=2" and you said, "But what about the cost of tea in china?"
It's really not possible to have a discussion with someone who is trolling or lying as trump and his supporters do constantly. Even his new Executive Order is really not going to fix anything and is (surprise!) another lie.
And this whole thing was probably an attempt to move the subject off of Mueller since Cohen and Manafort were nailed. Cohen has dirt going back decades and he's sounding increasingly surprised and irritated that Mr. Trump is hanging Cohen out to dry.
But meantime, a couple thousand kids might not ever see their parents again in their lives. Including a 9 month old baby.
This is immoral and evil.
And someone else did a much better job (and sourced) job of correcting the liar I was responding to to begin with.
The silliest thing in the world to me is when someone comes to an internet discussion group and tells everyone else to stop talking.
I mean.. come on man. Might as well go to the coast and yell at the waves coming in to stop.
However.. the costs I mentioned for nuclear are not speculation. They are established historical facts now.
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It's much more expensive to decommission a reactor than was projected back in the 60s. And today's utility users and tax payers are paying the cost for the unreasonably cheap power their parents got to use.
It's much more expensive to store and provide security for nuclear wastes than they projected. $8 million a year in today's dollars for the next few hundred years for one site that was mentioned in the news.
Someone else confidently stated that battery prices were not getting cheaper and capacity wasn't going up. That was outright false and easy to google.
Wow. I don't remember or recognize anyone on Slashdot.
You and I could have a massive conversation and next week, you'd be another anonymous stranger.
I do better on boards with avatar pictures.