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  1. Re:I thought Science was about facts? on Moon Could Have Been Habitable Once, Scientists Speculate (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would any good scientist speculate?

    Science today is about group-think and peer-approval - the scientific method can't be relied upon to "prove" what scientists "know" to be true.

  2. Re: US should have this, too on Government Spells Out Plans For UK-Wide Full Fibre By 2033 (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    So California's pensions are all paid up? The schools are adequately funded? Police and fire have all the resources they need?

  3. Why does the Department of Education need a SWAT team?

  4. Half of the country voted for Hillary Clinton

    No, about 20% of the country voted for Hillary Clinton - nearly 66 Million voters voted for HRC, but the population of the country is closer to 330 Million.

    More voting-age Americans chose not to vote in 2016 than voted in the election.

  5. Only problem I have with that statement is the most willful and egregious part

    You are falsely equating random cabinet officials occasionally using personal emails for government work with an individual that never, in her 4 year stint as Secretary of State, ever logged in to a government provided email account - 100% of her work email was sent to/from her private server, which she hired consultants to set up for her.

    Hillary's 100% exclusive use of private (AKA non-gov't) email is, by definition, the most egregious example mathematically possible - at least until some clever politician can find a way to exceed 100% of emails.

    Your link to the so-called "email controversy" includes this line:

    On December 14, 2009, CNN reported[14] that all 22 million missing emails had been found on backup tapes

    The so-called "missing" emails were all found, no so with Hillary's 30,000 "missing" personal emails she and her staff decided the public had no right to see.

    Oh, and before we go too far down the road of the Bush email controversy, let's remember, the RNC email server (just like the DNC email server) was set up to avoid breaking the law (Hatch Act), not to avoid compliance with federal records retention regulations...

  6. And since then they're now three figure millionaires?

    We call that 9-figure wealth.

    That doesn't pass any sort of smell test.

    unless you consider they gave speeches for mid-six figure fees ($500K) because Hillary was going to be the next President.

  7. "Public Officials" should NOT BE using anything but agency issued electronic devices while conducting themselves as agents of said agencies. Period.

    Unless, of course, you are Secretary of State, right?

  8. This just in - "Open Gov't Advocates Fear that Private Rooms Are Being Misused by Public Officials To Conduct Business in Secret" - Open Gov't Advocates are calling fro the immediate removal of all doors and walls in all government buildings. In addition, every government worker must register every cellphone, email and social media account, as well as accept a GPS microchip to allow workers locations to be tracked to ensure no gov't business is conducted in secret.

  9. Re: Have they ever paid the insurance premiums? on Uber Drivers 'Employees' For Unemployment Purposes, New York Labor Board Says (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not how it works. Employers and employees pay into an insurance fund, and unemployment benefits are paid from that fund. If neither the employer nor the employer paid into the unemployment insurance fund, on what basis will they be paid?

    How will their unemployment benefit be calculated? Gig economy/piece work isn't the same as an hourly wage.

    So does this mean Uber drivers will now be expected to pay for unemployment insurance?

  10. Who did?

  11. A $30K donation is 'massive'?

    When Hillary was going to be our next president, she frequently held fundraising dinners where seats sold for $30K/each. Thirty thousand dollars isn't a massive donation.

  12. Ford promised to pay off it's $5.9 billion loan over 10 years, it wasn't supposed to be paid off by now.

  13. 10000x?

    Big rigs with heavy loads do 10000x the damage as a your run of the mill two ton car.

    My car weighs 2 tons, do you honestly imagine the computer average big rig weighs 20,000 tons?

    A fullly-loaded semi trailer weighs about 80,000 pounds, or just about 40 tons.The

    20,000 tons is about 40,000,000 pounds.

  14. Most EVs have battery warranties of 8 yr/100K miles to 70% rated capacity. Numbers vary of course, but that equates to about $2000 worth of battery. Most people would save that much in gas alone well within that span of time.

    If you have to pour your 'savings' into replacement batteries then it it isn't a savings, it's a deferred expense.

  15. "Tesla on track to be first automaker to sell 200,000 electric cars"

  16. Re:McDonald pays $16-$19+/HR on Unlike Most Millennials, Norway's Are Rich (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    What does McDonald's pay around you? How many millennials work at McDonald's in Norway?

  17. Re: Could have been structured differently... on Tesla Will Be First Automaker To Lose the Federal Tax Credit For Electric Cars (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Why don’t you look up life expectancy before fossil fuels retard.

    Not sure you can really directly attribute longer life expectancy to fossil fuels, has it helped, on some level sure.

  18. Re: Could have been structured differently... on Tesla Will Be First Automaker To Lose the Federal Tax Credit For Electric Cars (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Fossil fuels do not benefit society in any way.

    Right, we just burn it to spite mother nature...

  19. Re: Could have been structured differently... on Tesla Will Be First Automaker To Lose the Federal Tax Credit For Electric Cars (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Have you ever seen an electric refrigerated truck? Me neither.

  20. Re:Millennial are stuffed on Unlike Most Millennials, Norway's Are Rich (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So the UK population is shrinking (deaths) at about the same rate is is growing (births), so how many immigrants do they "need" to grow the economy?

    How many unskilled migrants does it take to replace a lost skilled UK worker?

  21. Re:NEWSFLASH on Unlike Most Millennials, Norway's Are Rich (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Helly Hansen - Active Wear
    Voss - Water

  22. Re:Sad thing is no other countries learning from t on Unlike Most Millennials, Norway's Are Rich (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The lesson is that every Norwegian citizen is deeply invested in the oil industry, and their investments are paying off well.

  23. Re: Could have been structured differently... on Tesla Will Be First Automaker To Lose the Federal Tax Credit For Electric Cars (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    $5.3 Trillion? That's amazing! That's only about 20% more than the federal government spends in a year.

    That subsidy costs every man woman an child in the US $16K/year - where does that $5.3TN, $16K/per citizen, come from?

    Your number is non-sensical.

  24. Re: Could have been structured differently... on Tesla Will Be First Automaker To Lose the Federal Tax Credit For Electric Cars (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Imagine if GM had been allowed to go bankrupt, so that Tesla could step in, buy a couple auto plants, and build EVs in volume quicker.

  25. Re:Could have been structured differently... on Tesla Will Be First Automaker To Lose the Federal Tax Credit For Electric Cars (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    Really? Tesla will be profitable this quarter? Is anyone not on the Tesla payroll making this claim?