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Comment Re:Weather (Score 1) 80

Robbing energy from the wind is perhaps poorly studied and less well understood, but there's no doubt it will alter something, for better or worse.

Robbing energy from the wind is highly studied and well understood, and it results in a minimal localized heating effect (lack of cooling effect, actually) immediately downwind of the actual turbine, which is rapidly lost in the statistical noise. If you were able to use google you'd know this already. You do have to learn to filter out the hits from obvious idiots, but since your rhetoric matches theirs, you're probably suffering from confirmation bias. I know it can be hard to wade through the hits from jackholes who don't know what the fuck they're talking about, but all you have to do is just ignore all the results that give you a warm fuzzy feeling.

Comment Re:Power purchase preference or hard limit? (Score 1) 80

What I'm proposing is a little more honesty in PR.

What you're doing is complicating the issue because... who knows? Because you have sand in your asscrack? Why don't you go antagonize some of the members of the MIC who outright lie every time they communicate? You've got to pick on someone who's supporting renewables? Show me on the picture where the wind farm touched you.

Comment Re:My limited personal experience on the subject (Score 2) 364

My most recent ex-girlfriend, even though she had lived in America for a few years by the time we started dating, seemed to have this belief that you simply couldn't lose money in the stock market.

You should have taken her to a casino and used it to explain how markets work, then ask her where she thinks the money to build casinos comes from.

Comment Re:Harry Shearer wanted more money (Score 0) 100

I guess you haven't listened to his NPR Radio show. Unless you are die hard hippy level, liberal, who hates all things about Nuclear Power, Fracking, Catholic, Olympics, George Bush Jr. and you really really really hate the Army Core of Engineers.

Sounds sensible to me. All of those things are cancers. You want to think of the ACE as the good guys, but they build stuff that furthers our war efforts, whether economic or actually blowing shit up. They are there not to make the world a better place, but to make certain people richer, and they compete with non-military labor.

Comment Re:Harry Shearer wanted more money (Score 1) 100

No, evidently phoning in his lines still didn't allow for enough free time for 'other projects'

Sigh. Because of the typical boring legal nature of these conflicts, we may well never know the whole story. Perhaps something else he wanted to do conflicted with The Simpsons in some way, and he's just gotten go-ahead to do it, in writing. But because E.P. Al Jean said you should be skeptical, you automatically are. He successfully framed the debate for you to be specifically over time.

Comment Re:A long time coming... (Score 4, Interesting) 364

They literally have whole cities just lying around idle. I mean, Spain's got one, sure, but they have several. The economy never developed sufficiently to employ people in jobs that would permit them to live in developed cities in a capitalist society... so the places rot. If they had chosen people to just move into them by merit, or hell had a lottery, the situation would be better.

Capitalism only works when you have free markets and China is the opposite of that. When you have some businesses which clearly have state sponsorship (notably when their whole business model is lying on customs forms) the game is rigged and it doesn't work.

Here in the USA, the robber barons perverted capitalism for their own ends. In China, whatever kind of barons they have over there are preventing it from developing, for their own ends. Same problem, from different ends.

Comment Re:The enemy of my enemy != my friend (Score 1) 95

I would first think about simply black mailing them.

Blackmail is illegal. One crime at a time. Releasing this data, done well, won't lead back to you. Blackmail is only useful if you get paid, and that creates a trail. You know they can scan and record the serials in 1 million in small non-sequential bills in a pretty short period these days, right?

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