Yes, the thread was about Tesla using renewables for it's new factory.

But Tesla is not going to be using renewables for its new factory. It's going to be using a grid connection, because renewables aren't reliable enough to run a factory with. What it's going to do with renewables is vary its load wildly as wind comes and goes to lower and possibly completely cancel its electric bill. Good for Tesla, bad for the power company and other customers, and utterly useless for the environment, since almost all power plants can't ramp up and down in minutes or even hours, so they have to keep burning coal in order to keep those plants ready.

So the actual effect of all this is that people will end up paying more for their electricity, and the risk of a catastrophic grid failure increases, since there's now a huge and randomly varying load on it.

I came to my understanding faced with an incurable terminal illness. We were planning for the funeral until I decided to try to do my own research and try nutritional treatments. It was a truly stunning and miraculous transformation. The disease is still there, and death will come, but it's many years off now, not just a few months, the oxygen tanks are gone because they aren't needed any more, and life has real QUALITY now, even though there are a few things I still can't do.

Good for you. So... care to give us your disease and specifics of treatment for any fellow sufferers who might benefit from them?

Gluten isnt bad for you, unless you have a specific allergy or condition.

Possibly. However, "vague bad feeling" is a classic sign of constant low-level infection response. So it's entirely possible that gluten isn't really good for anyone despite only a few people being so sensitive to it that they get clearly visible symptoms.

And you've never done anything that endangered others? (If you say "never" I'm going to call you a liar)

Plenty, including drunk driving. So if I hit your kids tomorrow, is that just too bad for them and you, because obviously your employee deserves a second chance, and me failing mine is just accaptable price for that?

Because, I assure you, I'm drunk this very second, will probably never stop, and can only hope I judged my (abused) liver's abilites right, when it comes to making sure I'll be sober for when I have to drive. But of course even then I'll be sleep-deprived and in withdrawal. So go ahead and defend your employee; just remember you'll also be defending me.

And he has served time in prison for that.

And that won't make any future victims any less dead.

Don't be so eager to dole out "justice" for people you've never met.

I'm not. In fact, I don't give a tiniest bit of a shit for "justice" when that's just a nicer word for "revenge", which in turn is a nicer word for "sadism". I do, however, care about stopping people from getting killed. And that means keeping drunk drivers away from cars.

He had to have an interlock on his car even when granted a provisional license for 2 years.

Of all the things you've listed, this is the only one that actually matters, since it's the only one that stops him from driving drunk again. And frankly, at this point, it would probably be best if we simply admitted the facts and demanded that an "interlock" be installed on all cars.

They'll play the normality privilege card on you, and anything you say will just be taken as proof they're right, and you're wrong since they're right for merely existing according to their dogma. Works like your average proudly chauvinistically myopic females using the creep card on males that don't play their games by their rules literally all the fucking time. You learn to avoid them, which will just get you generally blacklisted as that creep always alone over there, anyway.

How strange. I only seem to run into average dudes who sometimes say stupid things, sometimes insightful things, and normal girls who interact with me like they and me were both real people with real feelings. It's almost like there was something wrong with you to make everyone treat you like you were a complete shithead.

Just like some groups have predisposition to certain diseases, maybe some groups have a genetic limitation to the likelyhood of above average intelligence.

Fixed that for you. Don't feel bad, you're not responsible for your genotype :).

Please note: I am saying some groups. I am not saying my group would be smarter. People tend to project that idea.

That said, I hope not. But not looking into it is a massive disservice to humanity.

People project the idea because every single time this has come up that's exactly what it has eventually reduced to. It's what it'll always reduce to, because what other purpose could bringing up this idea possibly serve? What are you going to do with it, besides feeding racists demagogues?

As for "disservice to humanity", the problem nowadays isn't that people aren't smart, it's that they use their intelligence in service of baser instincts. Thus, for example, we have climate "sceptics" who are smart people using their intelligence to make up excuses to disregard evidence of something they don't want to believe. Then we have the "war hawks" coming up with compelling reasons to invade one country after another. Finally, there's a horde of economists pushing for various contradictory ideological goals, all dressed up in very believable theories purpose-built to get the desired conclusions.

The problem isn't that Joe Average is not smart, the problem is Joe is using his smarts to come up with excuses rather than solutions.

Generally, racists promote their own race as best.

Do they? Because the truly destructive racist regimes - Nazis or the Confederacy, for example - are about the threat other races pose, which they couldn't do if they were inherently inferior. Someone who genuinely believes they're superior is an arrogant and annoying but ultimately harmless fool; it takes someone who has a severe inferiority complex to do things like the Holocaust or Jim Crow laws.

Which brings up another point - those not used to dealing with enterprise storage may not realize that you can/should/maybe want an array with more than one RAID group in it. They end up putting all their disks in one big VDEV which sucks for performance and flexibility, then blame ZFS for not being flexible.

Read how it works, don't make retarded choices based on ignorance, and you'll be fine.

Right. So let's take a practical example: I have 4 2TB drives, and one 120GB SSD. What are the "non-retarded" ways to configure that under ZFS, and why?

The Unix tradition is small, single purpose tools that do one thing well.

Yet the kernel does scheduling, memory management, user access control, filesystems, device management, TCP/IP, power management, etc.

These days your online reputation can be your most important asset. Can you imagine if one of the people he did this to got turned down for a job because their name showed up on a child porn site or pro-Nazi group in a standard background check?

Names aren't globally unique identifiers. So if having one like yours associated with questionable activity is enough to screw you, you're screwed.

Remorse is possible for a bad decision made in the heat of the moment. This man, on the other hand, was deliberate and meticulous in his abuse of several people that lasted over a *decade*. These are not the actions of someone who made a mistake, these are the actions of a sociopath.

We don't know that. The problem is that past decisions affect how you see the world. Admitting you made a bad decision has considerable emotional cost, which is why people try to avoid doing so. In the right circumstances this can lead to more bad decisions, and pretty soon the cost becomes unbearable. Nazi Germany is perhaps the most famous example, but this certainly can and does happen to individual people too.

Just because someone commits unspeakable atrocities does not mean they're a psychopath. They can be a perfectly ordinary person who simply gave the Devil their little finger and then lacked the strength to exit the ride. And it's important to understand how this mechanism works, because otherwise there's a temptation to think: "I'm not a psychopath, thus I could never do such things." Yes, you could, become a concentration camp guard or Unabomber II. It doesn't take psychopathy, it only takes willingness to indulge in the power of the Dark Side once.

2. Is a true statement. Abortion comes from the word abortio and aborior which both have the meaning of miscarriage. And "abortion" as people refer to in pro-choice arguments, etc is an induced abortion, i.e. an induced miscarriage.

And in modern English as commonly used "abortion" means a purposefully induced miscarriage, just like you yourself state above, while "miscarriage" means an unintended one. Etymology of words is fascinating, but it does not make a statement that is false by their current meaning any less so. And it definitely does not excuse someone who's purposefully trying to deceive.

Can they get it to gaseous form first? :-)

Light is gaseous, ideal gas in fact: photons don't interact with each other but will simply bounce off the walls of a container.

Or you forced departments to pay back double or triple plus court costs for improper seizures.They'd suddenly be much more careful.

They'd be careful to ensure you get shot resisting arrest and find a bag of cocaine from your car or corpse. Or, if you're lucky, you'll get away with a tasing and a prison sentence.

It's not a good idea to give a mugger reason to want you dead.

This is such an embarrassing failure of our ideals, and there's really no excuse.

Is it? Because it seems to me that it's perfectly in line with the actual ideals US has embraced for its entire existence: to the victor go the spoils.

"Land of the Free" has never existed, except in the same realms of propaganda "Worker's Paradise" did. All that's happening now is that oppression is being doled out somewhat more equally than in the past. But this has always been the real face of America to anyone who's not powerful enough to defend themselves from it: a predator.