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Comment It's just a matter of rebranding... (Score 1) 525

I just love the TSA.

And so you should.
The minor annoyances that people seem to want to blow up [joke] into traumatizing life ruining experiences will quickly dissipate,
when the Transportation Security Administration is rebranded to a warmer fuzzier name...
To save issuing new badges etc, the same acronym TSA will be used, so we can have

Travel Safe, America

Votes? More suggestions?

Take Scissors Away
Take Stuff Away
Terrorism Support Agency
Terrorists Still Allowed
Theatrical Self Aggrandizement
The Silly Agency
The Stupid Agency
They Steal Anything
This $u(k$ @$$
Three Stooges Audition
Tin Star Alert
Totally Suspicious Agency
Tourism Sabotage Activity
Transparently Senseless Aggravation
Travellers Subjected Arbitrarily
Treasonous Sinister Axis
Tuff Stubborn Anal
Turpitude Summarily Accepted
Twisted Sexual Abusers

And also lets rebrand the Department of Homeland Security DHS:
Delusive Hollow Sham
Deplorable Harrassment of Selectees, Treatment Simply Abusive
Desperate Hopeless Situation
D!(k Head Screeners
Dirty Handed Shakedown
Doesn't Have Sanity
Doesn't Help Security
Dollars Horribly Spent
Dysfunctional Hassle Spree
Don't Have a Seizure

Comment Re:Unprofitable (Score 1) 477

Does your shorthand statement

The cost was just too high for the production offered. Make me the same offer at say $15K for 3K or maybe a little more for 4K and I think I'd have jumped on it.

mean that a 3kW grid connected solar system would cost you $15,000 ?
If so, please wind your calendar forward 5 years to 2103.
I can source grade A solar panels for $0.80 per watt; that's a $2400 panel cost for 3kW, $3200 for 4kW.
Maybe another $4K for inverter and installation.
Solar is so damn cheap now.

Comment Re:Wanted: single-eye correction (Score 2) 97

I have it.
I am mildly red-green colour blind and twenty years ago had a corneal lens implant after an elastic luggage strap (boing...bang, OUCH!) damaged my lens.
The clear perspex lens in the one eye and very slightly red (blood) tinged natural lens in the other means that I am now much better at distinguishing colour differences that were once too subtle.

Comment Re:Sure, let's panic... (Score 1) 336

If you ever need to draw a line in the sand, the Mayan Long Count date of 13.0.0.0.0
works just fine as the date marking the end of the world as we know it.
Never will we see cheap oil nor normal climate. Ever.

Methane clathrate release from subsea and permafrost will increase atmospheric warming dramatically within years not decades.
If 2C by 2100 (IPCC 2007) was a problem to be solved by your (great) grand children, how does the accelerating changes make you feel?
3.5C by 2100 (UNEP 2009), 4C by 2060 (HCMR 2009),
7C by 2100 (GCP 2009), 3.5C by 2035 (IEA 2010),
>5C by 2050 (UN 2010). If you are paying attention that was 2 years ago.
Try 5C by 2017 as a current estimate...

Climate change is not a problem for 2100 but means near term extinction *[AMEG]
in the northern hemisphere by 2031 and 2047 in southern hemisphere.

*AMEG: Arctic Methane Emergency Group
Extinction of ALL multicellular life, not just Homo defectus.

PANIC!

Comment Re:America leader on clean energy, not Europe (Score 1) 341

Please write to Angela Merkel c/o the Reichstag,
saying you will be thrilled to have the German nuclear waste depository in your county.

The Germans love the benefits of their nuclear power, they just cannot stand the
unsolved problem of safe nuclear waste disposal.
Just as Carbon Capture and Storage is -THEORETICALLY- possible but is not commercially
viable, so too if nuclear power production accounting required -ALL- clean up cost to be
fully funded, a huge unfunded externality, then it too would be deemed too expensive.

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