People *want* solar, they just can't *afford* it. I'm FAR from some environmental hippie, but even I looked into getting solar panels for my roof. In the end, it was going to cost me something like $25,000-$30,000 and save me about 50%-75% on my electric bill. At that rate it would take decades to pay itself off, and that's assuming that said panels will even last that long and require no maintenance (and I don't buy that for a SECOND). There was just no way in hell I could afford the upfront costs. Aside from a relatively wealthy few and a few clever do-it-yourselfers, solar is simply out of reach for the vast majority of the population.
People have gotten used to the idea that wealthy corporations and individuals own the U.S. government (and plenty of other governments as well). They shrug it off because there is no viable alternative to turn to.
With both major political parties completely in the pockets of the rich and powerful, where is there to turn? Even those Occupy protestors couldn't answer that when they were asked. Their whole deluded movement seems predicated on the idea that if they make enough noise, suddenly all the politicians are going to turn away from their bread-and-butter and become honorable men and women. It's quite an epic pipe dream.
The harsh reality is that anytime a government payout is involved, companies and organizations will emerge whose entire raison d'être is to exploit those payouts. A lot of those solar companies included big government subsidies in their business plans, and most of them knew damn well that they couldn't possibly be profitable without them. Another subset (and I *hope* it's just a subset) were likely straight-out hustlers looking to quietly pad their individual pockets with a Uncle Sucker's payout and then declare bankruptcy. The latter are companies where the CEO and top managers drew huge salaries and little in the way of actual production ever got done.
Thanks, but I'd rather have the chemical preservatives than to take my chances with all the nasty bacteria and parasites that come with spoiled food. And I'd rather have the pesticides, engineered crops, etc. than to deal with the starvation that would result if every farmer suddenly decided to go organic.
You can lose weight on almost any diet that restricts calories in some way. Not to downplay your weight loss, but people have been losing weight on every sort of diet imaginable for decades. The trick is *keeping* it off, of course.
the automobile as a means of personal conveyance is unsustainable
That's why I'm putting all my money into unicycles. My wife, parents, and the doctors at the center all tell me this is crazy. But, mark my words, THEY'LL SEE!
In the Democrat's defense, it's unlikely Newt would have used it anyway. He still thinks the internet is just something hippies use to plot the overthrow of this blessed Christian nation.
Every time I see one of these domestic drone stories, I'm reminded of that scene in Blue Thunder where Roy Scheider, having seen a demonstration of the deadly helicopter, says something along the lines of "You don't expect to use that thing for law enforcement, do you?" to his government minder. The guy just looks creepily at him and replies "Well, that would depend on the CIRCUMSTANCES, wouldn't it?"
The problem with Jedi isn't that they exist, it's that everyone wants to be one (and developers oblige).
Jedi in the real SW universe are supposed to be EXTREMELY rare. Yet both post-CU Galaxies and TOR are filled with everyone running around with lightsabers. It's a whole world filled with "chosen ones."
I used to work at a place that had pretty draconian blocking policies. They used Websense at full lockdown. Websense would not only block at the IP level, but it also actively blocked proxy sites and proxy lists too. And by "actively," I mean it updated every hour. It was VERY difficult to circumvent.
The point is, if your ISP really wants to block you (and if the government threatens them with jail time if they don't), they can. Even if 1% are clever enough to stay a step ahead of them, 99% will be blocked.
Is it easy to move a character between servers on TOR? Last time I tried in WoW, it was a huge pain in the ass. A real let-down after having played Guild Wars (where you could move anywhere, anytime you wanted).
Guild Wars is probably the most underrated MMO in history. Way better story and graphics than WoW, it was free to play from the beginning, and moving a character between servers was as easy as a drop-down menu (allowing you to easily play with friends on different servers, something that should have been standard on all MMO's a long time ago). And yet it never got the attention it really deserved.
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Do you reckon that recent breach of lightspeed might indicate that Einstein was seriously wrong?
I would be more willing to bet that the findings were flawed. But we'll see.
Alien Earth Visitor to his Captain: But we can still anally probe them, right?
Captain: Of course. Set your course for the nearest trailer park.
People *want* solar, they just can't *afford* it. I'm FAR from some environmental hippie, but even I looked into getting solar panels for my roof. In the end, it was going to cost me something like $25,000-$30,000 and save me about 50%-75% on my electric bill. At that rate it would take decades to pay itself off, and that's assuming that said panels will even last that long and require no maintenance (and I don't buy that for a SECOND). There was just no way in hell I could afford the upfront costs. Aside from a relatively wealthy few and a few clever do-it-yourselfers, solar is simply out of reach for the vast majority of the population.
People have gotten used to the idea that wealthy corporations and individuals own the U.S. government (and plenty of other governments as well). They shrug it off because there is no viable alternative to turn to.
With both major political parties completely in the pockets of the rich and powerful, where is there to turn? Even those Occupy protestors couldn't answer that when they were asked. Their whole deluded movement seems predicated on the idea that if they make enough noise, suddenly all the politicians are going to turn away from their bread-and-butter and become honorable men and women. It's quite an epic pipe dream.
The harsh reality is that anytime a government payout is involved, companies and organizations will emerge whose entire raison d'être is to exploit those payouts. A lot of those solar companies included big government subsidies in their business plans, and most of them knew damn well that they couldn't possibly be profitable without them. Another subset (and I *hope* it's just a subset) were likely straight-out hustlers looking to quietly pad their individual pockets with a Uncle Sucker's payout and then declare bankruptcy. The latter are companies where the CEO and top managers drew huge salaries and little in the way of actual production ever got done.
Thanks, but I'd rather have the chemical preservatives than to take my chances with all the nasty bacteria and parasites that come with spoiled food. And I'd rather have the pesticides, engineered crops, etc. than to deal with the starvation that would result if every farmer suddenly decided to go organic.
You can lose weight on almost any diet that restricts calories in some way. Not to downplay your weight loss, but people have been losing weight on every sort of diet imaginable for decades. The trick is *keeping* it off, of course.
The short answer is whatever happens to be trendy at the time. One year, carbs will be all the rage. The next, they'll be bad.
Remember, your paycheck reflects how well you obey, citizen!
For others, no.
the automobile as a means of personal conveyance is unsustainable
That's why I'm putting all my money into unicycles. My wife, parents, and the doctors at the center all tell me this is crazy. But, mark my words, THEY'LL SEE!
There is also an option for an abnormal 17" screen. It's pear-shaped.
With the top of the range model, I think that they have a no quibble, lifetime, battery replacement service*
*Assuming that Tesla doesn't go belly-up at some point, that is.
We really sorry
We no joke
Didn't mean to put pee-pee in your coke.
Yeah, but he also used a car in the analogy, as is required by /. policy.
In the Democrat's defense, it's unlikely Newt would have used it anyway. He still thinks the internet is just something hippies use to plot the overthrow of this blessed Christian nation.
Every time I see one of these domestic drone stories, I'm reminded of that scene in Blue Thunder where Roy Scheider, having seen a demonstration of the deadly helicopter, says something along the lines of "You don't expect to use that thing for law enforcement, do you?" to his government minder. The guy just looks creepily at him and replies "Well, that would depend on the CIRCUMSTANCES, wouldn't it?"
Watch out!
SSH Tunnel to Squid proxy.
Unless your home DSL is in another country, I don't think this would help if the blocking were applied at the national level.
you'd get the most bang for your buck in China
Well, until we can re-legalize slavery in the U.S.
The problem with Jedi isn't that they exist, it's that everyone wants to be one (and developers oblige).
Jedi in the real SW universe are supposed to be EXTREMELY rare. Yet both post-CU Galaxies and TOR are filled with everyone running around with lightsabers. It's a whole world filled with "chosen ones."
Guess who will win?
The first government leader crazy enough to declare martial law and deploy the military, I imagine.
still possible with proxies
I used to work at a place that had pretty draconian blocking policies. They used Websense at full lockdown. Websense would not only block at the IP level, but it also actively blocked proxy sites and proxy lists too. And by "actively," I mean it updated every hour. It was VERY difficult to circumvent.
The point is, if your ISP really wants to block you (and if the government threatens them with jail time if they don't), they can. Even if 1% are clever enough to stay a step ahead of them, 99% will be blocked.
Is it easy to move a character between servers on TOR? Last time I tried in WoW, it was a huge pain in the ass. A real let-down after having played Guild Wars (where you could move anywhere, anytime you wanted).
Guild Wars is probably the most underrated MMO in history. Way better story and graphics than WoW, it was free to play from the beginning, and moving a character between servers was as easy as a drop-down menu (allowing you to easily play with friends on different servers, something that should have been standard on all MMO's a long time ago). And yet it never got the attention it really deserved.
That's what they used to say about FPS's and RTS's too.