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Comment Re: Varies, I suppose (Score 2) 533

First world countries generally have more capacity than needed, otherwise blackouts and brownouts would be commonplace.

Just because water flows in rivers does not make it free. Damns are expensive and need to be insured against breaking, and those costs among others make the water not free. (More fundamentally, water rights are a part of the purchase price of riverside land.) You might as well argue that coal or oil is free, because they're already buried there, waiting to be used.

Economists have developer a polynomial....

Well hooray for the economists. <sarcasm>They're like gods; they're never wrong. </sarcasm>

Comment Re:Why a single place? (Score 1) 167

Given modern experimental evidence that wild foxes can be domesticated in a few generations (that includes physical changes, most notably non-erect ears), multiple site domestication is quite plausible.

There are also several modern examples of wild fox newborns raised as pets without significant problems.

Comment Re:Budget running dry? (Score 1) 99

You're telling me that the teachers are so poor quality that if they don't teach the material that will be on the test and nothing else, the students won't pass the test. Teachers that poor should be fired. There are a great number of people in the general public who need jobs and could teach better than people currently employed as teachers; they'd have the additional advantage of not already having their minds corrupted by the garbage that teachers learn in normal schools.

A student who has learned nothing in a year has been seriously damaged by his teacher, who should be fired before damaging other children.

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