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  1. You forgot the other 300,000 fatal incidents in the same time span that had one aspect in common: guns.

  2. Re: Sounds too simple to be true on Garmin Engineer Shot And Killed By Man Yelling 'Get Out Of My Country!' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    it amuses me that we rarely talk about the employers of immigrants and illegal immigrants in the conversations about jobs and wages

  3. Re:the radiator will be huge at 50w/m2 for anythin on Professors Claim Passive Cooling Breakthrough Via Plastic Film (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    your house is also a literally a pile of unengineered garbage. like most US homes, it was both designed and built by idiots. Maybe you should buy a better house with adequate air sealing, insulation, and a design that at least made a small attempt to minimize direct solar gains. Guess what, its even cheaper to build houses intelligently. But when you sell products to idiots, the quality doesn't matter and instead you get expensive 50kBtu/hr machine to cool it and piss away extra money to the utilities.

  4. Re:Earth Day April 22 Bought To You By Al Gore on Al Gore Sells $29.5 Million In Apple Stock (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 0

    yeah good luck with that. please post back on the progress of your brilliant investment portfolio. fortunately [for you] you are just a troll, probably with no money, no job, and a duplicitous claim on disability from which you access your tax payer funded oxy scrip. And if I'm wrong here its by 1 degree at most. haha, MAGA bro!

  5. Re:And? on Al Gore Sells $29.5 Million In Apple Stock (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    you can of course "invest" in options by buying them on the open market...

  6. Re:Hard to read on How is The New York Times Really Doing? (om.co) · · Score: 1

    If you were impressed by that display, then you need some experience observing smart people talk.

  7. Re:Hard to read on How is The New York Times Really Doing? (om.co) · · Score: 1

    Speaking of snowflakes, there seem to be a lot of the conservative variety lately. One particularly particularly unique specimen can be found in some tacky beach resort or out on the golf course and I assume, sometimes in the oval office.

    As for the press conference, I couldn't even read through the transcript. There is no way I could watch 80 minutes of incoherent rambling. I'm giving a 90 minute talk tomorrow afternoon. I would be rightly fired if its quality matched POTUS appalling display. Then again, I'm speaking to engineers, not the riled up classroom of 4th graders who support Trump.

  8. Re:Echo-chamber fake news on How is The New York Times Really Doing? (om.co) · · Score: 1

    The media is not a monolithic entity, but composed of tens of thousands of people each with their own agenda and subject to those rules and agendas of their thousands of editors and hundreds parent organizations from dozens of countries... Just like it has always been, which is why accusations raised about "the media" have always been silly distractions by scheming assholes attempting to support their own agenda.

  9. Re:You forgot the biggest one on How is The New York Times Really Doing? (om.co) · · Score: 1

    don't forgot the sex trafficking!

  10. Re:Hard to read on How is The New York Times Really Doing? (om.co) · · Score: 1

    why do people craft narratives out of nothing?

    90%+++ of people voted the ticket they would voted with ANY D or R candidates. 10% did not. A few hundred thousand made a difference.

    There is zero evidence for your narrative. It should not be used to drive policy in America. Done.

  11. Your epistemological deflection doesn't hide the fact you are wrong about the basic universality of macro thermodynamics, but it was a nice try. You have further documented your missing thinking in this latest post. Your physics undergrad is cute, but fortunately our respective training on the subject is not an authority here :-) As for your request, I already suggested you will find your problem in any introductory engineering text on the subject. But I think you would be better served by "Understanding Thermodynamics" by Van Ness. Its a very simple text that ought to clear up your sophomoric thinking.

  12. Re:Okay - that was quick. on Michael Flynn Resigns As Trump's National Security Adviser (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Citizens with your petty, vindictive attitude are a bigger problem for our democracy than corruption in the DNC and/or the flaws of a specific candidate. I'm not even sure what you are complaining about. I think our awful government represents you perfectly.

  13. I would argue that its entire history is an attempt to "faithfully" try it, and that the excesses reveal themselves so quickly and awfully that it's quickly reigned in. Capitalism is self-defeating in a way that, I think, is not shared by other systems - for all their own faults.

  14. Re:If his phone can easily be hacked, on Congressman Calls For Probe Into Trump's Unsecured Android Phone (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    http://www.informationisbeauti... yeah private business has awesome security.

  15. Re:Okay - that was quick. on Michael Flynn Resigns As Trump's National Security Adviser (go.com) · · Score: 1

    First, you expect a lot from your readers, namely mind reading. Secondly, you honestly think the few people participating in riots have any power? Cute.

  16. Re:Okay - that was quick. on Michael Flynn Resigns As Trump's National Security Adviser (go.com) · · Score: 1

    but the reaction of the looney left has made me so glad he won.

    A celebration of irrational thinking. Politics are bizzare.

  17. Thermodynamics sets out some basic laws that govern all practical energy transformations, such as a heat engines, chemical reactions, or the use of any system that does "work" to move water against gravity or friction (pumping). All energy transformations can be cast in terms of the relationship between heat and work as outlined in your article; I suggest you study your source material and follow up on the the article titled "Thermal Efficiency". If you were trained in thermodynamics in an engineering or science program, you should consult your course provider because they failed to teach the single most important aspect of the subject: its generality. If you haven't been trained in the subject, don't sweat it. Thermo isn't as easy as it seems. Any undergraduate text in the subject will give you examples exposing this missing detail in your thinking.

  18. He is the exact same as he was before. A craven asshole looking to blame others.

  19. Re:Big battery will put a stop to this on Researchers Working on Liquid Battery That Could Last For Over 10 Years (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    The grid has been betting on capacitor-based storage so far, since they're not seeing anything else coming along.

    No it isn't. OR rather which grid? We have about 10 major "grids" in North America, or at least decision making entities you might refer to as the grid. I'm not aware of any one of them who is "betting" on capacitor-based storage over batteries, hydro, or a number of other technologies.

  20. Re:islam as a threat on Apple CEO Tim Cook Tackles Truth in the Digital Age (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm aware of barbarism espoused by more than one holy text... and have at least a casual enough familiarity with the history of Islam and terrorism to identify your references as well as the major sectarian conflicts that have plagued the religion for centuries, including the the strife between Muslims and other cultures in Africa and SE Asia. I'm also aware that the vast majorities of people of faith do not adhere to these specific doctrines.

    I see nothing in this comment that constitutes a threat. Let alone one that deserves more attention and resources than anything I outlined above.

  21. Pumping up water: has nothing to do with thermodynamics.

    You are horribly mistaken. Please revisit your thermo text.

  22. Anti-renewable arguments have always fascinated me. At their vary nature, these arguments are one form or another of: "Advances in IC manufacturing, power electronics, and software, will disrupt and fundamentally change every industry on earth, except apparently the electrical grid."

  23. mainly the erection of market barriers via regulation, lobbying, scale, and duplicitous behaviors including bribery, collusion, nepotism, and other forms of corruption.

  24. Why search? I'm following that guy on the internet who already knows! He's done everything and handed my opinion to me!

  25. I don't trust monkeys and I can bill for ADA compliance in word it at my rate.