Comment Re:Cool world (Score 1) 216
I can shoot around corners now?! Sweet. Hello Cool World, here I come.
No, fins can't do that. You'll need a little fancier tech for that.
I can shoot around corners now?! Sweet. Hello Cool World, here I come.
No, fins can't do that. You'll need a little fancier tech for that.
You mean after the sun goes off the main sequence.
Sure. The mass of the Sun isn't going anywhere for a while. A near absolute zero mass white dwarf is pretty stable assuming it doesn't get gobbled by nearby blackholes. But we really can't call that the Sun any more.
Solar will last as long as the sun. How long do you think we will have the resources to build solar panels ?
Many orders of magnitude longer than the Sun will last.
The money teachers or public workers get paid is for the work they've done, not for "votes". They've earned that money. It's theirs. Once the money is in their pockets, how public workers use that money is their business.
Until it is used to get more money.
Remember Citizens United. Before they are members of a public union, or a corporation, or a church
That doesn't give them a right to work for a government institution, particular public schools which are state operated and not subject to a number of constraints of the US Constitution.
If you don't want them to earn money off public funds, you have better chance asking for government to get out of public education completely (or whatever public program that puts public funds up for grabs). Blame your politicians, not the unions or the teachers.
Hence, why I support privatization of schools. Then it doesn't matter to me if they are unionized or not.
Teacher's unions aren't paid with tax dollars, they are paid with teacher salaries. Yes, I can hear your complaint that teachers are paid in tax dollars, but that's not the same thing.
But it is a votes bought with public funds situation. I think that public unions should be outright illegal.
No, Germany doesn't export when they want to any more than France does.
They can always just turn off 2.5 GW of generating facilities or blackout 2 GW of their country's demand when they don't have enough to go around. So sure, they don't "need" to have a functioning country-wide grid.
And I see that you don't address why France's electricity costs less than Germany's electricity.
Those who state they hate public education impose costs on public education that don't apply to private, then laugh as people complain about the rising cost of public education.
They don't have the power to impose a factor of three multiplier on public education. You'll have to look elsewhere for that.
It's ABSOLUTELY the opposite.
I disagree. of course. The reason is that these transactions all occur at France's convenience not Germany's. The Scandinavian countries with their high reliance on hydro are really the ones making a killing here.
Morons like yourself and the OP bleat on about how renewables can't be put in more than about 20% because (well, "because", really), but it's really nuclear that can't manage high fractional production.
We are already seeing the problems with Germany's system with huge arbitrary surpluses and deficits that have to be pushed into other countries and an electricity cost double that of France.
If your neighbour starts selling you electricity for nothing it makes your own plant less profitable, but you have to keep your own plant around because your neighbour is not a reliable resource.
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For example Germany is exporting 2.46GW to France at the moment, but between midnight and 4am it was importing about 2GW of French nuclear because there wasn't much wind.
What is the price of the electricity that Germany exports versus what it imports? Sure, cheap power from Germany makes French power less profitable. But buying more expensive French power at other times on an impromptu basis makes French power more profitable. And from what I'm seeing, it's a net profit for France.
France seems to have been given the job of keeping everyone on an even keel.
Which is a typical market maker position and tends to be very profitable.
The true power of the public education system is that it gives teachers a great deal of independence in what they say in the classroom.
Unless it doesn't, of course. Let us keep in mind this 1984 experience would still be a public education system. There's already some crazy stuff in public school systems like zero tolerance policies and ideological contamination by political correctness that inhibits a teacher's independence.
When you look at it with those constraints, private should be about 1/3 the cost of public.
You shouldn't. A two-thirds overhead on your education costs is relevant.
And the data said that charter schools were failing and the testing was unscientific gobbledygook.
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For example, she knows about the NAEP http://nces.ed.gov/nationsrepo... which actually did a good, scientific study of charter schools and found that they were on average worse than public schools.
No they didn't. On average, they found they were about the same. In some states, charter schools did consistently perform worse than public schools, but in some states, charter schools consistently performed better. Not an argument for charters schools, but not one against them either.
"Who alone has reason to *lie himself out* of actuality? He who *suffers* from it." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
