This is impressive. The North Carolina town that banned new solar farms because they were afraid they would soak up the sun sets the record straight and manages to sound even stupider.
Heiniger also denounced solar energy as a government-subsidized boondoggle that is “highly inefficient at producing energy.”
Solar farms are only less efficient than fossil fuel plants if you leave out the fact that you have to, you know, put fossil fuels in fossil fuel plants.
Or if you took, I-84, how can I get to the alternate reality where Danbury isn't a nightmare? And which bridges in Pennsylvania suddenly weren't in permanent and desperately needed overhaul?
You're talking about maybe 6 miles out of a 900 mile trip. Overall, the entire route was an absolute pleasure.
In August, I drove from Chicago to New Haven, CT. The roads are beautiful. I'd like to see how Bain Capital would build an interstate highway system. Oh, and then there's this little government project: http://www.zastavki.com/pictur...
Call me when a private corporation can get a human into orbit without killing him.
Hopefully they can restore it to the glory days of 2010.
They won't even be able to restore it to the sorry state it was in back then because the "emergency manager" sold off the city's only revenue-producing assets.
Yes, Snyder took a bad situation and made it worse. And he did it by enriching his friends.
Balances Minnesota, where the Republicans are Democrats and the Democrats are Communists.
You mean Minnesota, the state with a billion dollar SURPLUS? The state with one of the fastest-growing economies, one of the best educational systems, one of the top health care programs and among the states with the least childhood poverty? And all these things happened after they decided to raise taxes on the rich and refused budget cuts?
Yeah, those goddamn commies ruined that place, innit?
It's called a "breakaway civilization" and it's not a new idea. It's been a fantasy of the elite for a long time. The only problem is they want you to pay for them doing it.
Flint didn't go bankrupt. It was forced into receivership by the the State of Michigan in 2011, after Governor Snyder (R-Douchebag) declared a "state of emergency".
The emergency was lifted in April of this year, and now the city's trying to dig out of the willful neglect of the hand-picked lawyer that the Good Governor Snyder put in place of the democratically elected government. But not before many of the assets that the city owned have been sold off to private entities. It's what's known as "Disaster Economics" (aka Vulture Capitalism). As another well-known corporatist once said, "Never let a disaster go to waste".
Do you seriously think locals said "Hey let's elect these people so they can give us cheap tainted water!" Should a populace be held responsible to a person for the actions and effects of the decisions of their elected officials?
But that's not what happened. It wasn't the elected officials that caused this problem so much as the emergency managers who refused to do anything about a problem that they knew full well was hurting people.
"Emergency managers" means "lawyers the Republican governor hired to run a town after he superseded the government that had been democratically elected." It's privatization of government, pure and simple.
Only by the warped grammar of 20th century newspaper headlines. An "and" would have been more appropriate, and if you're jammed up for space, and ampersand replacing the comma would have less confusing. But I sometimes think we now live in a world where confusing headlines are acceptable because everyone finds the reality of the news confusing.
The common wisdom of the time, was the atmosphere was large enough and the biosphere diverse enough to clear up any toxins, and what men can do would only be a small effect.
And almost 100 years later, we've got knuckleheads today saying exactly the same thing.
A North Carolina town has passed a law against unplugged ethernet cables because they're worried all those gigabits will just leak out onto the ground and soon flood out all the tobacco plants.
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This is impressive. The North Carolina town that banned new solar farms because they were afraid they would soak up the sun sets the record straight and manages to sound even stupider.
Solar farms are only less efficient than fossil fuel plants if you leave out the fact that you have to, you know, put fossil fuels in fossil fuel plants.
It is infinitely better than the privately-built US Highway System.
And yes, private corporations do indeed imprison people and force them into labor camps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I'll take a Zune HD 64gig. It's the best portable mp3 player ever sold.
You're talking about maybe 6 miles out of a 900 mile trip. Overall, the entire route was an absolute pleasure.
And it's a rhetoric that is less and less effective as time goes on.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/125...
In August, I drove from Chicago to New Haven, CT. The roads are beautiful. I'd like to see how Bain Capital would build an interstate highway system. Oh, and then there's this little government project: http://www.zastavki.com/pictur...
Call me when a private corporation can get a human into orbit without killing him.
You are an idiot.
They won't even be able to restore it to the sorry state it was in back then because the "emergency manager" sold off the city's only revenue-producing assets.
Yes, Snyder took a bad situation and made it worse. And he did it by enriching his friends.
You mean Minnesota, the state with a billion dollar SURPLUS? The state with one of the fastest-growing economies, one of the best educational systems, one of the top health care programs and among the states with the least childhood poverty? And all these things happened after they decided to raise taxes on the rich and refused budget cuts?
Yeah, those goddamn commies ruined that place, innit?
It's called a "breakaway civilization" and it's not a new idea. It's been a fantasy of the elite for a long time. The only problem is they want you to pay for them doing it.
Transhumanism, it's a cookbook!
https://youtu.be/9f7wOxw4fQI
Flint didn't go bankrupt. It was forced into receivership by the the State of Michigan in 2011, after Governor Snyder (R-Douchebag) declared a "state of emergency".
The emergency was lifted in April of this year, and now the city's trying to dig out of the willful neglect of the hand-picked lawyer that the Good Governor Snyder put in place of the democratically elected government. But not before many of the assets that the city owned have been sold off to private entities. It's what's known as "Disaster Economics" (aka Vulture Capitalism). As another well-known corporatist once said, "Never let a disaster go to waste".
But that's not what happened. It wasn't the elected officials that caused this problem so much as the emergency managers who refused to do anything about a problem that they knew full well was hurting people.
"Emergency managers" means "lawyers the Republican governor hired to run a town after he superseded the government that had been democratically elected." It's privatization of government, pure and simple.
It looks like his supporters are right on the verge...
https://www.thewrap.com/donald...
So then explain Donald Trump.
I'll bet Stephen Hawking sees a flight of stairs as a greater threat than AI.
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You have a "can, do" attitude. I like that.
Only by the warped grammar of 20th century newspaper headlines. An "and" would have been more appropriate, and if you're jammed up for space, and ampersand replacing the comma would have less confusing. But I sometimes think we now live in a world where confusing headlines are acceptable because everyone finds the reality of the news confusing.
I'm still trying to work around that face.
In Australia, the face mites try to kill you.
And almost 100 years later, we've got knuckleheads today saying exactly the same thing.
http://news.heartland.org/news...
A North Carolina town has passed a law against unplugged ethernet cables because they're worried all those gigabits will just leak out onto the ground and soon flood out all the tobacco plants.
There should be a law that the voices on all GPS systems in cars have a working-class Scottish accents.
"YA MIST THAT LAS' RIGHT TURN YA FOOKIN' COONT MIND YER FOOKIN' DRIVIN OR YER OAN A BURST MOOTH!"
https://youtu.be/vPKhhne8mCs
As someone has pointed out below, the town in question is WoodLAND, not Woodlawn.
No, it wouldn't.
This is a better explanation based on Woodlawn demographics: