when you think about how most of our energy in this country is produced, it's not simply plugging in a storage medium into the electrical line, but instead the transformation of the chemical properties of coal or gas, or relying on the radioactive properties of fissile material to heat water & create steam... which then gets run through turbines to generate electricity.
When demand on the power grid takes a sudden turn
That has nothing to do with his plan, which has nothing to do with electricity or the grid or turbines. Here is what the owner of libs is planning to do:
I'm going to go idle my car for an hour with the doors open and the air conditioning on.
We can only hope that he does this in an enclosed garage. That would definitely own the libs.
That profile also fits millions of non-terrorists.
Gosh, so if I understand you correctly, you're saying that it sucks to be classified as some sort of danger to society just because of your race and/or religion?
Your statement is akin to saying that the FBI should be watching all Arab Muslims who go to Mosque daily.
No shit, Sherlock. That was the point. We have a lot of jackoffs in this country who say exactly that. A bunch of them work in the White House and one is golfing in Florida today on the taxpayers' dime. We see them in this comments section all the time.
It feels different when it's topsy-turvey, with you turvey instead of topsy, doesn't it?
There is alas no evidence for such out of body experience
See, you didn't read any of the studies. Did you see the cases where blind people laying on hospital beds experiencing near-death experiences were able to see the doctors working on them from a perspective above their heads? They saw things and described events that they could not possibly have seen even if they hadn't been blind.
That is why we have had this experience with a screen showing random images above a lamp of operation table, and people which get routinely cardiac operation are put in a clinical death sometimes have OOB. So far nobody has been able to describe the picture, beside some vaguish BS which could apply to any image.
You're wrong about that. Dr. Charles Tart has published studies of people in NDE being able to correctly name a 5-digit number from an LED display in a different part of the hospital.
He wasn't a radicalized terrorist, he was a serial killer.
They are not mutually exclusive, as the Austin bomber shows. Anyway, serial killers seldom commit suicide, as Mark Anthony Conditt did. However, radicalized terrorists very often commit suicide.
The bomber was white, Christian, home-schooled, anti-LGBT and conservative. This fits the profile of almost all domestic terrorists in the US. Why wasn't he on the FBI's radar?
Where was he radicalized? Why hasn't the rest of the white, home-schooled, anti-LGBT, conservative community denounced him?
I saw on TV that white folks in South Carolina were celebrating with each bombing. There's video. Why isn't the mainstream media talking about that?
Don't stop fighting for the truth. The reckoning is coming
I've managed an Irish Harp, a mandolin and a square banjo in the hillbilly style. I can read music so I can test the notes but I could not play anything beyond scales to save my life.
Those are all very cool instruments. The thing about playing every day is that you get better whether you want to or not. Make some kind of music every day, even if just for a few minutes.
Let's say, for the sake of argument, he ends of getting impeached (incredibly unlikely even for him, given how historically difficult it is to actually make that happen) -- we all would end up with President Pence. Is that what you really want?
It's a start. If you ask people from Indiana, you'll learn that Pence is actually pretty weak and mealy-mouthed and would be little more than a place-holder.
California wins the top spot in 6 of the 12 decades, NY wins it 3 times
You're using absolute numbers instead of number of school shootings per 100,000 people. Oklahoma has 1700 schools, but California has over 12,000 just in K-12.
I decided to go through the entire Wikipedia list starting in 1900
The Heller decision wasn't until 2008. You should take a look at this thorough study of the impact of that decision. The raw data is included in case you want to do an extensive comparison to some random Slate article.
When I was in high school in the 70's, pretty much every pickup had a gun rack with a.22 rifle and or shotgun. Some had pistols in the glovebox. Not one was locked. Kids carried pocket knives, or buck knives in a sheath on their belt. NOT ONCE was there ever a shooting, stabbing or anything else.
There were at least 30 school shootings in the US in the 1970s.
By the way, do you know which states have the most school shootings? Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas. Can you tell me what those states have in common? Very lax gun laws. They have other things in common, but I don't want to make this political.
Do you know which states have the FEWEST firearm deaths per 100,000 people? Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, Hawaii, New Jersey, Minnesota, California. Can you tell me what those states have in common? I'll help you: they all require a permit to carry a handgun, and law enforcement has discretion over who gets those permits.
Guccifer 2.0, Cambridge Anal. and Species Jumping...
It's all coming together quite nicely. Trump lawyers heading for the exits is a good sign. Top law firms telling him, "Nah, we're good. Best of luck, Mr President". Hires a warmonger to be his new National Security Advisor. I'm old enough to remember when people said Trump hated foreign wars.
Trump signs the Democrats' spending bill and headed to Mar-a-Lago for a week. I know what he'll be watching on TV Sunday night. Best believe Melania's got a legal team combing over the pre-nup and the NDA. Stormy's got pictures and video. Karen McDougal's got receipts. Mueller's checking off boxes.
All this in the last three days. It seems like only last week that his third consecutive endorsee in a congressional election went down to defeat. Oh wait, it was just last week. Oh yeah, I forgot: Breitbart guys were caught on tape trying to bribe a lawyer to lie about his client. What am I forgetting?
That’s some pretty extraordinary claim, I’m going to need extraordinary evidence.
Why don't you just admit that there is no evidence you would believe, and that until Penn & Teller tell you it's OK, there is no amount of peer-reviewed research you will ever accept? It would save us a lot of time with me providing citations and you not looking at them and deciding they're BS.
I've got hundreds and hundreds of pieces of music still on 4 track and cassette, not to mention many
I can relate. I've got my old Tascam 4-track deck in the basement with a cabinet full of reels. My wife keeps after me to clean them up, and by clean them up, she means, "throw them out". I figure when it comes to original music, I can always make more, so I might just do it some day.
There are no cooberated (sic) out of body experiences in science
See, I didn't think so either, until I checked the scientific literature. There most certainly are examples of corroborated out of body experience. It's most often found in studies of near-death experience cases, especially of blind subjects.
Let me remind you that skeptics base their opinions on evidence, not on what some TV magician tells them is true.
"Consciousness" is only meaningful when people don't abuse it by using it as a modern synonym for "soul." Consciousness is NOT a magical floaty part of yourself that is really you but isn't made out of matter. It's a high-level abstraction of everything necessary for a complex nervous system to be responsive.
The research supporting your assertion that consciousness is local is pretty thin, and common phenomenon like corroborated veridical OBEs (out of body experiences) suggests that consciousness may be a lot more complex than you pretend. You might want to look at the work of Dr Kenneth Ring, Professor Emeritus of psychology at the University of Connecticut. His two major studies (and publications) on the matter raise a lot of questions about the local consciousness hypothesis.
I want my music to go with me. What I need is the ability to listen to my Music when I am out in the middle of the boondocks with no cell service at all.
Spotify allows you to download the music you want as part of the subscription. I'm pretty sure Google Music does too.
That's great then. I'm still struggling with finding certain R&B albums for sampling.
Really? I'm surprised. I listen to a lot of R&B and I haven't really found big holes in the catalog.
Back in the early 80s, I did some keyboard work on house records made in Chicago and released on boutique labels for club-use. I can imagine some of them aren't available, but the real sample-worthy stuff should all be there.
I wish you the best of luck finding all of the old jazz albums on streaming.
I wish you the best of luck finding all of the old jazz albums on streaming.
You're way off-base. They're on Spotify. DigitalDust's Rudy Van Gelder playlist is 500 tracks long and that's just the Rudy Van Gelder Editions. jazzwhat has a playlist of records on the Impulse label from the 60s and 70s that goes 2,364 tracks deep. That's just one label.
There are jazz records on Spotify that aren't even in print any more so you can't buy them on CD or vinyl at any price. European and Japanese editions that would cost over $100 to buy on Amazon. Two of those would cover my entire Spotify subscription for a year. Two records.
Even if you were talking about pre-1930s jazz records, there are lots and lots of them on Spotify (or Google Music, which has about the same catalog). Do you think you could find more by digging for 78s at garage sales?
In Switzerland for example almost every man can keep their rifle at home
That sounds like a solution. If every gun owner kept their rifle at home, we'd have a lot fewer mass shootings. It's when they take them outside that the trouble starts.
Owning legal copies of music is cheaper in the long run than paying over and over again for streaming it.
Not if you enjoy a large variety of music. Man, if I were to buy the records, just my in interest in jazz from the late '50s and early '60s would cost me enough to pay for streaming for 10 years. And that's only one of the many types of music I like.
Also, I'm able to sample a lot of new music without having to lay out the price of a CD or digital download. If I want to hear what Destroyer's new album, KEN sounds like, I can do so with practically zero investment. And if I don't like it, it hasn't cost me anything..
In the days I used to buy physical media, I would periodically have to bring boxloads of CDs and vinyl to the used record stores and I'd only get a small fraction of what I paid. Some people like physical media. They like the artifact of an album with its liner notes and vinyl disk and the whole ritual of taking out a record and putting it on a turntable. I never really did. I just want to hear the music. Fortunately, we have lots of choices.
On the other hand, the streaming business model for artists sucks, so I tend to buy a lot of CDs and vinyl to give as gifts for friends. If I want to support an artist, I see if I can buy the media direct from them.
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That has nothing to do with his plan, which has nothing to do with electricity or the grid or turbines. Here is what the owner of libs is planning to do:
We can only hope that he does this in an enclosed garage. That would definitely own the libs.
Gosh, so if I understand you correctly, you're saying that it sucks to be classified as some sort of danger to society just because of your race and/or religion?
No shit, Sherlock. That was the point. We have a lot of jackoffs in this country who say exactly that. A bunch of them work in the White House and one is golfing in Florida today on the taxpayers' dime. We see them in this comments section all the time.
It feels different when it's topsy-turvey, with you turvey instead of topsy, doesn't it?
That'll sure show them libs what's what.
See, you didn't read any of the studies. Did you see the cases where blind people laying on hospital beds experiencing near-death experiences were able to see the doctors working on them from a perspective above their heads? They saw things and described events that they could not possibly have seen even if they hadn't been blind.
You're wrong about that. Dr. Charles Tart has published studies of people in NDE being able to correctly name a 5-digit number from an LED display in a different part of the hospital.
I do love it here, as I've said many times.
They are not mutually exclusive, as the Austin bomber shows. Anyway, serial killers seldom commit suicide, as Mark Anthony Conditt did. However, radicalized terrorists very often commit suicide.
The bomber was white, Christian, home-schooled, anti-LGBT and conservative. This fits the profile of almost all domestic terrorists in the US. Why wasn't he on the FBI's radar?
Where was he radicalized? Why hasn't the rest of the white, home-schooled, anti-LGBT, conservative community denounced him?
I saw on TV that white folks in South Carolina were celebrating with each bombing. There's video. Why isn't the mainstream media talking about that?
Don't stop fighting for the truth. The reckoning is coming
#QAnon
Those are all very cool instruments. The thing about playing every day is that you get better whether you want to or not. Make some kind of music every day, even if just for a few minutes.
It's a start. If you ask people from Indiana, you'll learn that Pence is actually pretty weak and mealy-mouthed and would be little more than a place-holder.
You're using absolute numbers instead of number of school shootings per 100,000 people. Oklahoma has 1700 schools, but California has over 12,000 just in K-12.
The Heller decision wasn't until 2008. You should take a look at this thorough study of the impact of that decision. The raw data is included in case you want to do an extensive comparison to some random Slate article.
http://injuryprevention.bmj.co...
There were at least 30 school shootings in the US in the 1970s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
By the way, do you know which states have the most school shootings? Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas. Can you tell me what those states have in common? Very lax gun laws. They have other things in common, but I don't want to make this political.
Do you know which states have the FEWEST firearm deaths per 100,000 people? Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, Hawaii, New Jersey, Minnesota, California. Can you tell me what those states have in common? I'll help you: they all require a permit to carry a handgun, and law enforcement has discretion over who gets those permits.
Citation needed.
Good, you're making progress. Now that you accept the existence of NDEs, let's look at how they relate to OBEs:
https://link.springer.com/arti...
https://link.springer.com/jour...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Guccifer 2.0, Cambridge Anal. and Species Jumping...
It's all coming together quite nicely. Trump lawyers heading for the exits is a good sign. Top law firms telling him, "Nah, we're good. Best of luck, Mr President". Hires a warmonger to be his new National Security Advisor. I'm old enough to remember when people said Trump hated foreign wars.
Trump signs the Democrats' spending bill and headed to Mar-a-Lago for a week. I know what he'll be watching on TV Sunday night. Best believe Melania's got a legal team combing over the pre-nup and the NDA. Stormy's got pictures and video. Karen McDougal's got receipts. Mueller's checking off boxes.
All this in the last three days. It seems like only last week that his third consecutive endorsee in a congressional election went down to defeat. Oh wait, it was just last week. Oh yeah, I forgot: Breitbart guys were caught on tape trying to bribe a lawyer to lie about his client. What am I forgetting?
#WINNING
Why don't you just admit that there is no evidence you would believe, and that until Penn & Teller tell you it's OK, there is no amount of peer-reviewed research you will ever accept? It would save us a lot of time with me providing citations and you not looking at them and deciding they're BS.
https://bioethics.georgetown.e...
http://www.resuscitationjourna...
There's lots more where that came from. I just picked this off the top.
I can relate. I've got my old Tascam 4-track deck in the basement with a cabinet full of reels. My wife keeps after me to clean them up, and by clean them up, she means, "throw them out". I figure when it comes to original music, I can always make more, so I might just do it some day.
Already provided (see above)
See, I didn't think so either, until I checked the scientific literature. There most certainly are examples of corroborated out of body experience. It's most often found in studies of near-death experience cases, especially of blind subjects.
Let me remind you that skeptics base their opinions on evidence, not on what some TV magician tells them is true.
The research supporting your assertion that consciousness is local is pretty thin, and common phenomenon like corroborated veridical OBEs (out of body experiences) suggests that consciousness may be a lot more complex than you pretend. You might want to look at the work of Dr Kenneth Ring, Professor Emeritus of psychology at the University of Connecticut. His two major studies (and publications) on the matter raise a lot of questions about the local consciousness hypothesis.
Spotify allows you to download the music you want as part of the subscription. I'm pretty sure Google Music does too.
Really? I'm surprised. I listen to a lot of R&B and I haven't really found big holes in the catalog.
Back in the early 80s, I did some keyboard work on house records made in Chicago and released on boutique labels for club-use. I can imagine some of them aren't available, but the real sample-worthy stuff should all be there.
There goes my weekend plan.
I wish you the best of luck finding all of the old jazz albums on streaming.
You're way off-base. They're on Spotify. DigitalDust's Rudy Van Gelder playlist is 500 tracks long and that's just the Rudy Van Gelder Editions. jazzwhat has a playlist of records on the Impulse label from the 60s and 70s that goes 2,364 tracks deep. That's just one label.
There are jazz records on Spotify that aren't even in print any more so you can't buy them on CD or vinyl at any price. European and Japanese editions that would cost over $100 to buy on Amazon. Two of those would cover my entire Spotify subscription for a year. Two records.
Even if you were talking about pre-1930s jazz records, there are lots and lots of them on Spotify (or Google Music, which has about the same catalog). Do you think you could find more by digging for 78s at garage sales?
That sounds like a solution. If every gun owner kept their rifle at home, we'd have a lot fewer mass shootings. It's when they take them outside that the trouble starts.
Not if you enjoy a large variety of music. Man, if I were to buy the records, just my in interest in jazz from the late '50s and early '60s would cost me enough to pay for streaming for 10 years. And that's only one of the many types of music I like.
Also, I'm able to sample a lot of new music without having to lay out the price of a CD or digital download. If I want to hear what Destroyer's new album, KEN sounds like, I can do so with practically zero investment. And if I don't like it, it hasn't cost me anything..
In the days I used to buy physical media, I would periodically have to bring boxloads of CDs and vinyl to the used record stores and I'd only get a small fraction of what I paid. Some people like physical media. They like the artifact of an album with its liner notes and vinyl disk and the whole ritual of taking out a record and putting it on a turntable. I never really did. I just want to hear the music. Fortunately, we have lots of choices.
On the other hand, the streaming business model for artists sucks, so I tend to buy a lot of CDs and vinyl to give as gifts for friends. If I want to support an artist, I see if I can buy the media direct from them.