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Comment Re:Freakonomics? (Score 1) 627

False, Indonesia, Mexico, Brazil, South Africa, Russia, have greater rates of murder than the U.S. Also the murder rate within the U.S varies greatly, with about a 10x difference between the highest and lowest rates. Culture, education, poverty and so on have large influences on where and when violence occurs. While disarmament might reduce some types of crime, it is absurd to think the disarmament could bring U.S. rates of crime in line with Western European rates.

Comment Re:One more Linux annoyance (Score 1) 464

Systemd was inspired by launchd, an OS X project. A bigis that you don't have to manually order dependencies and thus penitential for better parrelalization, another is that you can boot without a shell. Lots of different ways to active a service that are integrated into each other.

Comment Storage, capacity, maintenance are problems. (Score 1) 735

The problem with the grid parity link is this,

To satisfy your personal peak power, your going to have to reduce it via smart home appliances or by selling power back to the grid or storing it, or some combination of the three. The first and third cost money (the third, at least 10 cents per kilowatt), and the second you get less than half the money for sending power into the grid than you buy it for. (No way a residential investment that produces more than you can immediately use or store and use later will have parity)

Now if the grid goes out and you don't have storage, how to you run your heat pump at night when you actually need it the most?

Forth the power rating are for ideal conditions, and actual power decreases linearly with time after 25 years you've lost between 17 and 28 % of the efficiency. Oh did you climb up on the roof and wash your panels every week? If not knock some more off.

The point being even under idea conditions solar barely makes sense as to run at a wattage equal to your base load, much less a backup. an entire house, unless it is earthship-esque with minimal total demand for electricity, in which case, WTF are you doing on the grid anyways?

Comment Re:Title is misleading (Score 1) 510

"That argument doesn't serve the consumers who pay the price for the products at all. In fact, It hurts the consumer when other people's wages are reduced."

You ignore the unseen and the mechanics of change. Allowing wages in certain sectors send out price signals that make people consider what other avenues of endeavor may be more productive than their current one. This allows for capital, labor and natural resources to be allocated to satisfy more urgently felt needs of consumers.

Now don't get me wrong I believe the corporate structure is an abuse as it is a fiction designed to be rid of the consequence of facts. CEO's get absolutely absurd compensation packages because the stock market is so over-packed with money seeking shelter from taxed through 401k accounts and the like. In addition vast laws and regulations favor inbuments over new competitors. (Most regulatory law is written by a group within the industry to be regulated). Unions can be a balance against this power in some cases, but it would be uniformly more beneficial just to be rid of the special privileged of large corporations so that the mobility of and competition for labor can act to drive up wage rates.

Comment Re:Title is misleading (Score 1) 510

You confuse inflation and it's effects . Inflation consists and only consists of and increase in either money of money substitutes. Other things being equal this increases the demand for cash holdings the price of many goods and services. What you point out is just one of the many way that other things may have changed. to partially offset these effects.

Comment Re:Not legal here. (Score 1) 286

Where I used to live two State Patrol officers decides to enforce the 75mph speed limit on I-80 by going 75 and driving next to each other. Twenty minutes later another State Patrol officer pulled the one in the left hand lane over and wrote a ticket for obstructing traffic (as there are two exceptions to the speed limit laws, one for emergency vehicles and another for state legislatores while the legislature is in session and they are traveling towards it). Sometimes the best and brightest just aren't the brightest.

Comment Re:Not legal here. (Score 1) 286

Gross or Criminal Neglect can satisfy, that is if you know or were reckless in not knowing a certian action could or would result in death and you took it anyways. If you have your first seizure ever while driving a car and killed a pedestrian, that's not a crime at all. If you have a history of seizures and the same thing happens, it can be murder.

Comment Re:Not legal here. (Score 1) 286

Traffic violations are criminal in nature. The right to cross-examination involves the ability to challenge any and all evidence against you. If a judge did actually hold you in contempt or even threaten contempt for such a challenge, it would be automatic grounds for appeal. "[I]f there was here a denial of cross-examination without waiver, it would be constitutional error of the first magnitude, and no amount of showing of want of prejudice would cure it." Brookhart v. Janis, 384 U.S. 1 (1966) The Breathalyzers the cops have in the field generally aren't calibrated regularly, but they are only used to establish probable cause for an arrest. A second test is done with certified and calibrated breathalyzer or by blood sample. Plus they use all sorts of jedi mind tricks on the scene to try to get you to admit to being "intoxicated" or in some way less than sober.

Comment Re:Not legal here. (Score 1) 286

When someone's tailgating me, I add at least two extra seconds of following time (onto my usual three), that way when I do have to stop I can do so more slowly and with more warning to decrease the chance of the jackass behind me jacking up the ass end of my car. What you shouldn't do is ignore a tailgater because the are creating a danger. Take the countermeasure and continue as normal.

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