Yeah, that's going to work out well for the Government. The government makes a shit ton off Oil and Gas, more than Oil and Gas does. And they are replacing that revenue stream with subsidies for the very thing that will eliminate revenue. Brilliant!

I remember when they raised taxes on Cigarettes to pay for people who had lung cancer. To the point where cigarette use dropped very sharply over a few years. They funded programs from the taxes, tax revenue dropped, and now they have to back fill those programs (because we never cut them ... ever) with regular taxes.

But what difference does it make, at this point? Cecil the lion is dead.

No it wasn't. IT was designed from the beginning to snooker the American people into a broken "insurance" scam designed to break the medical/insurance industry. It was designed to fail, so that Americans would jump into single payer, crap healthcare.

You can keep your plan (Lie)
It isn't a tax (Lie)
You can keep your doctor(Lie)
It will cost less(Lie)
You'll have better coverage (Lie)

And I am sure supporters will provide anecdotal evidence that some of these claims were true for them. Plenty of people lost their doctors, plans and spend more for less insurance. OH, and Obama lied about not increasing taxes on those making $250k or less. BUT who cares, Cecil the lion is dead!

Soldiers typically need a lot more calories. Where it would interesting is an emergency food source or part of one for disasters ans such. I keep MREs around just because in the winter, it is possible i can get snowed in for two or three days without power or water (well run off electric )

Hydro is not anywhere near peak. Unless you mean "we can't build any more dams because environmental concerns".

California is waking up to the realization that All those regulations mean squat when there is a real drought, and the only thing saving the mini fish are the dams we built that they said was killing them off. Maybe now, we can build some more dams

To me, Facebook is about people I care about, GooglePlus is about things I care about. Facebook sucks for discussing my eclectic amusements. My family really doesn't care about my Ingress activities, and my Ingress friends don't want to see kitty pictures.

Or to put it another way, GooglePlus filters out all the things I don't care about, nicely.

I think I understand what "portable" means.

You don't understand how to make things portable. I'm sorry, if you don't understand how to do it, that's your problem.

This is hilarious. You claim *I* am the "troll" here? Hahahahahaha.

I won't say I'm sorry, but your little "mind reading" trick didn't work. You couldn't have been more wrong if you spent 2 days trying to.

YOU replied to ME with your insults and party politics, remember? Not the other way around. I think you may need a new mirror.

That's not a big scripted response. I have entire expert systems scripts that trigger in certain circumstances. I don't even think about it.

X or Y or Z happens and I drop into standard response to condition Green... activate.

As to winkies... I am serious... the error is yours :D

I'm just not being a dick about it. I'm trying to convey some of my in person casual charm to the extent it can possibly be conveyed here. I say harsh things all the time... and I mean them quite often... but I don't say them to be offensive or to hurt people's feelings or to be an asshole.

Shit is occasionally "wrong"... and I spend a lot of my time every day slapping people upside the head and getting them to pull their heads out of their asses.

I don't do that because I want them to feel bad. I do that because they need to fix it and they need to not do that... often. I express the point clearly... but I don't want an emotional response. I want everyone to happily whistle while they work... or happily fix all the shit they fucked up while they work. People that get upset are generally not very productive. They get distracted and cause problems later on because they feel obligated to revenge themselves as a point of honor. And I've no patience for that shit so I make a point of making it hard for them to emotionally justify such behavior.

I am... a very odd person. I know that. But I'm not an asshole by any reasonable definition of the term. And so I prefer for people to be emotionally centered.

As regards Poe's law... sarcasm, jokes, voice tone, facial expressions... they don't carry naturally over text. You have to overtly put in clear signals for people to know.

A lot of times people will just presume people know what they're thinking and then make statements that can be taken in many different ways assuming they can only be taken in the way they privately intended but never actually made clear.

m'kay? :D

See... serious... but not a dick. :)

Pedantic!

dammit.

No. Try reading what I wrote again:

No.

You could have had such a job in the 80s, but only if you started working there in the 60s or 70s. Most people who got such a new job by the late 80s were already pretty much guaranteed no retirement, despite any agreement they may have had.

What this "sociologist" found is nothing new... it has been going on for many decades now. However, we are just now starting to seriously experience the pain of it.

Companies bemoan lack of "company loyalty" but they haven't been willing to treat employees like part of the company "family". The whole "company loyalty" thing won't change until companies start showing some "employee loyalty" again. They are the ones who dropped the ball, and it is definitely on their shoulders to pick it up again. Because nobody is going to say "Yes, Massa, I will work and slave for you for 2 decades with no promise of a long-term reward and the threat of being sent out the door at any time."

It just doesn't work that way. Companies will get loyalty when they deserve loyalty, not before.

She was basically expected to fail. For various political reasons within the DNC she needed to be given the presumption of a chance but there was an understanding from the start that she'd not go anywhere.

Sort of like the republicans running John McCain or something... the know he's not going to win. They might even nominate him... but if they do... they know he's not going anywhere.

Hillary is the same thing and so is Bernie or Trump. the political forces that know anything know that these people are the opening circus attraction.

Behind Hillary there are a lot of people in the Dem ranks that can stand up and be more credible than her. And they will especially since Hillary appears to be self destructing faster than anything believed possible. This email thing is getting increasingly serious. I doubt she's going to jail over it but... it is looking like something nasty could come out of it. The sweater is getting unraveled.

On the other political side you have Trump... who also will not be president. Its not going to happen. Even if he got the nomination and he won't... but even if he did... he'd still lose.

So who cares what these people say they would do. I might as well stand up and say what I would do if I were president. Or anyone else on slashdot... Stand up and tell us what you'd do if you were president.

Whatever you said matters about as much as Hillary's various schemes to get enough votes to get her party's nomination.

I will say this... IF Hillary got nominated... she might win. She'd have a D after her name and that is a very powerful thing in an election. But... I don't think she's going to get nominated.

She's kind of a female Al Gore in a lot of ways. Neither Gore nor her wants to associate with Bill Clinton but neither of them would even be considered for high office without that association. I don't know why they distance themselves from Bill. If I were either of them I'd walk around on stage as Bill Clinton gave me piggybacks. As much as possible, I'd try to make people think they were voting for Bill Clinton.

Bill Clinton could actually win again... I mean... legality and term limits aside... people like him. No one likes Hillary. Even her supporters don't like her. They feel comfortable with her maybe or they think her politics are right or whatever. But they don't like her. Who wants to have a beer with Hillary? or a glass of wine or anything? No one likes her. Bill is funny. He's got stories. He's charming. You'd have a good time and he projects that in his politics and personality.

Hillary projects... Agnes from accounting... The woman in the office that does something boring and repetitive that no one cares about... she goes home every day at 5pm and people assume she has a lot of cats because of the pictures of cats all over her cubicle...

I mean seriously... imagine if Hillary were not a politican but just some person. Would you want to know her or spend any time with her?

Exactly. I mean... I'd rather spend time with Trump then her... and Trump is insane. But Trump is at least amusing. I'd likely deck him every so often... and doubtless he'd call the cops on me because I assume he's a whiny bitch on the subject. But... people you want to spend time with versus not is relevant in politics. Likability.

And that's a problem for old Hill. She isn't getting the nomination. I don't see it. And if she does... she's one of the weaker presidential candidates the dems could field.

I'd actually fear Bernie more in this election if I were the republicans more than Hillary. I mean... bernie is a frizzy haired crack pot. But he's at least sincere. He actually believes the shit that comes out of his mouth. Hillary doesn't believe anything. Those are just animal sounds she makes to lull the peasants. Everything is focus groups, talking points, lobbying scripts... she licks her finger, holds it up to the wind, and that's her position.

And I think THAT perception is going to be very hard for her to overcome.