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  1. Re:Has it's car business done so well it's moving on Tesla Is Talking To the Music Labels About Creating Its Own Streaming Service (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    If only there was some way to use a mobile audio/telecommunication device that could stream audio over a national - even global - wireless network. And then a way that we could take that stream of audio and send it to the entertainment system inside the car. That would solve the whole thing!

  2. Nah, I think they wanted to get rid of him because he didn't want to test an IPO, the VCs bought in at a stupid-high valuation, and Uber is burning their cash at a rate of $63 per second, 60 seconds a minute, 60 minutes an hour, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year...

  3. TMI dude, TMI... :)

  4. I'm with you. If a powerful car can make one's dick bigger, just imagine what a bus or train will do!

    The problem is you have to share that bigger dick with 10 to 60 other people - and you don't get to choose who they are...

  5. Nuclear AND hydro? on Sweden Passes Bill To Become Carbon Neutral By 2045 (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    Must be nice to be in Sweden... Here in California, neither source is considered 'renewable' or green, and many don't consider them carbon neutral either.

  6. Re:120 whatchyamacallit on It's Too Hot For Some Planes To Fly In Phoenix (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Nah, they just like metric because they do not have the mental agility to handle factors of 2, 12, 32 - or anything other than "move the little dot left or right".

  7. Re: So, President Trump was right? on Coal Market Set To Collapse Worldwide By 2040 As Solar, Wind Dominate (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    From your own first link:

    "We're looking at deposits of coal, looking at nuclear, looking at renewables, all of it," said a senior administration official in a briefing.

    I stopped at that point, as the others all contain the same thing. There is nothing in the executive order - and not a single bill or proposal - which is the big push for fossil fuels as you claimed. A lot of editorializing and theorizing and guessing - but nothing concrete or factual. In other words: fake news.

    Again, please point to the executive order or bill language that gives fossil fuels an unfair advantage. If you can't - then perhaps your position is wrong, because there are no facts to support it.

  8. Re: And yet people continue the Warming Alsrmism on Coal Market Set To Collapse Worldwide By 2040 As Solar, Wind Dominate (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Read the GP. Now apply context. You'll see your own fail...

  9. Re: So, President Trump was right? on Coal Market Set To Collapse Worldwide By 2040 As Solar, Wind Dominate (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    So a writer at the NY Times thinks that President Trump may push to change regulations that may give oil companies advantages? In other words, there's no action so far, no stated policies, but it's implied by a reporter who thinks it could be true - and thus, from that, you determine that President Trump IS pushing for fossil fuels to the detriment of other sources.

    This isn't just fake news, this is worship of fake news...

  10. And we certainly would NOT want to expect schools to actually start educating kids again, rather than teaching them the importance of being politically active (in certain directions only) and how it's better to feel good about your answer than actually getting the right answer...

  11. Re:So, President Trump was right? on Coal Market Set To Collapse Worldwide By 2040 As Solar, Wind Dominate (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Where is this big push for fossil fuels? I see a lot of talk about cutting subsidies which heavily skew the market, and I see the President pulled us out of a non-binding, unofficial, handshake-based agreement by the previous President (which legally cannot be binding upon any other Administration or branch of Government), but a push for fossil fuels? Where?

  12. Re:And yet people continue the Warming Alsrmism on Coal Market Set To Collapse Worldwide By 2040 As Solar, Wind Dominate (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Except in this case rather than coming to a stop after we cut the engines, it's claimed we'll start reversing direction!

  13. AND, the cost of that storage was NOT in the report. Add in the cost of that storage to provide the same level of availability as coal, gas, and nuclear and suddenly it's no longer cheaper... Hey, my ICE is cheaper than an electric car if I can ignore the cost of oil changes and gas!

  14. So - what tax advantage does Apple have that is not available to the typical person?

  15. It was actually doing even better when Ike was in the Oval Office. That was the last time we ran an actual surplus (meaning tax receipts were higher than outlays - we had a surplus of cash and paid down the debt), and - if you adjust for inflation - the Federal Government's receipts from income taxes was HALF per capita what it is today... Imagine that, an actual surplus of cash AND half the tax load!

  16. Re:Trump won't let this stand on Wind, Solar Surpassed 10 Percent of US Electricity In March, Says EIA (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Silly AC, facts show that OPEC - mainly Saudi Arabia, Libya, and Nigeria, provides 40% of all EU imports...

  17. Yes, because the statement about the demand to pay more than what is legally required wasn't central to the case. However, there was no dispute that a person needs to pay more than what is required - none at all.

  18. They are following the law. Just like everyone else. If you are a legally incorporated entity (sole prop) you can deduct your health insurance, you can deduct travel expenses, you can deduct R&D expenditures. Just like IBM or Apple. You can shelter income in overseas owned subsidiaries. You can do all the same - just at a scale of 1 person, rather than 100,000.

    So, do you take full advantage of the tax law?

  19. Re: Thoughts and prayers on Congressman Steve Scalise Among 5 Shot at Baseball Field (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    So because the House passed a bill, people have had their healthcare removed? Silly me - I thought it took the Senate voting approval of the bill AND the President signing it to become a law before anyone could lose their Obamacare. I weep for the lack of basic education about our Government that you and those like you exhibit. A mind is a terrible thng to waste, and you're living proof...

  20. Re:Trump won't let this stand on Wind, Solar Surpassed 10 Percent of US Electricity In March, Says EIA (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    For 40 years, it was illegal to export US-sourced crude oil. It was the Obama Administration that lifted the ban in 2016. Prior to that, all US pumped oil had to be used in the US. Would be trivial to go back to that...

    We are involved in the Middle East to essentially guarantee the oil flows for our "friends" in the EU who knock us for using our own oil and for military aggression in protecting their own oil supplies...

  21. Re:Where they agree... on Apple CEO Tim Cook Shares His Experience Of Working With President Donald Trump (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    They do. What law - the written manifest of what is democratically decided by the people - is either entity breaking? Too many forget what Judge Learned Hand wrote in the 1934 case of Helvoring v. Gregory:

    Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes.

    I assume you take every tax deduction and break that you are legally entitled to, why shouldn't anyone else?

  22. Re: Thoughts and prayers on Congressman Steve Scalise Among 5 Shot at Baseball Field (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    What bill did Congress or the President pass and enact in the last 6 months with regard to health care?

  23. Re:Did they try to decode the message? on Has the 40-year Old Mystery of the 'Wow!' Signal Been Solved? (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    And the recording tape device was a genuine Panaphonic. Or was it the Sorny?

  24. So if the roads are being cleared of snow for use, why not clear the solar panels too?

    Have you ever seen what a snowplow does to mailboxes, let alone a solar panel?

  25. Don't forget the few millions needed to grant access and build the on and off ramps as well... Those supercharger stations are going to be pretty pricey to install!