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Comment Re:Good for him and the world. (Score 1) 118

Also the electric car has one huge manufacturing advantage. It is very easy to extend the factory to start producing domestic solar power kits, complete versions. The primary part of which is not the solar panel but the battery, inverter and control systems. So the panel can be conventionally outsourced and the rest of the kit assembled and ready for sale and installation. Right now is the right time for a retail complete ready to install kit by skilled trained franchise dealers. Part of that kit of course connector for the car, power incoming and outgoing. The car and the home power supply will work well together to minimise cost of some very expensive parts.

Comment Re:Well done! (Score 1) 540

Included in that is the sell value of the property and seven years is the appropriate return period, due to typical contract length. Not to forget of course, starting rent, day 1 year 1, is not finishing rent day 365 year 7. Then there are major tax breaks including asset depreciation, which wipes of total construction investment over the investment life of the property. Added to that likely significant appreciate in subdividing a major parcel of land. Of course he could just be really patient, move in the bogans, wait for the others out, demolish the low cost housing and build a movie studio.

Comment Re:Stupid (Score 1) 591

As it is, I am opposed to the whole idea of execution, it seems such a waste. Whilst the individual has lost their rights that have not lost their value. Contained within them is the genetics, the motivations and very likely the information to help prevent crimes by others. Also the potential for a cure, a bit tough as it would be on the experimental side but again there is benefit community wide in find cures and applying before terrible consequences occur. So kept as comfortable as reasonable, in a very good health state and used for appropriate reasonable medical experimentation, with strong emphasis on 'appropriate' and 'reasonable'. As an individual they might well have lost their value as a human being they have not and most definitely never to be spare parts (that is simply way to dangerous, DNA matching and wealthy scum able to manipulate the courts, nobody wants to be set up and framed for their body parts, no thank you). Never forget, we are talking government and lawyers as well, so a chance always remains to repair a legal mistake or a fraudulent prosecution.

Comment Re:$892,000 houses for the poors (Score 1) 540

Since we already know it's an area for rich people, it's likely that the land costs drive the price of the project up. Besides, if they're meant as rental properties, the idea won't be to get the money back immediately; the rental income and the theoretical dividends that it will pay back to the community will cover the costs in the long haul. Normally, the city would front some of that cost because there's value in that sort of diversity, but perhaps Lucas is shouldering a bunch of the costs that the city/developer normally would.

Comment Re:Unless (Score 1) 301

Oh fucking hell. It's like you people have no idea who the man was. He was Propaganda Minister, a member of Hitler's inner circle, and most certainly made decisions in his own capacity that lead to the murder of Jews. For instance, when the decision to go ahead with the Final Solution had been made, Goebbels was keen that Berlin Jews be the first to be sent to the camps.

If that is the logic to apply, then none of the senior Nazis were guilty of anything. So far as I know, Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels, Goering, all the big guys on top, never killed anyone themselves. I doubt Hitler ever directly took another life after WWI.

If nothing else, Goebbels, like his fellow senior members of the Nazi government, were guilty of conspiracy to commit genocide. But even Goebbels, mere marketing guru, had considerably more influence over Nazi racial policy than being a loudspeaker, which all of you morons would know if any of you knew a fucking thing about the Nazi leadership.

Comment Re:Here's a better idea (Score 3, Informative) 678

If Washington State is anything like British Columbia (and considering they're right next door to each other, and Washington is south of the 49th), there are looming water problems; an extremely low snow pack which will likely mean water restrictions in some areas. Yes, it's rains a lot in the region, but the way that rain is "captured" is through snowfall.

Comment Re:Forensic evidence should not be subjective (Score 1) 173

A hair versus a fingerprint. On average a person has 100,000 hairs on the head and they loose on average 100 every single day, that is 36,500 hairs over a year (have you any idea how long those hairs can lost and how far they could travel, attached to another persons clothing), for which the US legal system in all of it's rampant stupidity now holds you legally liable. Now add to this shitty testing, so basically a scam to enable easy prosecution and early promotions.

Comment Re:Kangaroo Court! (Score 1) 114

Well, actually he was trying to save those government agencies from their own stupdity. If professional criminals can pass the test as readily as psychopaths can, than exactly who are the fools, fooling, except themselves. So what is the court case going to be, a plea from the Fucking Bloody Idiots to help save them from their own stupidity (the lie detector test a way to ensure psychopath CIA agents can readily infiltrate the FBI to obstruct any investigations of criminal activity being conducted by the CIA, cough, cough, Anthrax, cough, cough).

Comment Re:Help me out here a little... (Score 3, Interesting) 533

The properly handle the problem Tesla Motors needs to start producing home batteries and not just batteries for cars. This will help them and help us. It would be logical for Tesla Motors to come up with a complete kit ready to be installed, panels,batteries, inverters and obviously a direct socket to plug in a electric vehicle for power in either direction.

Comment Re:Render farm? (Score 1) 150

Rule of games, the better the graphics the worse the game play, the better the graphics the buggier the product upon release, cut scenes are often claimed to be part of the game. So the game engine produces the cut scenes at maximum capability on a very high powered machine over with minutes of processing to create seconds of imaging ie really, really shitty frame rates. The empty hype of modern corporate marketing. I'll wait until a year after release and let everyone else deal with B$.

Comment Re:Stupid (Score 3, Interesting) 591

The two problems with the method, which is incidentally why it was not brought up, it is a very accessible means of suicide and that state is now promoting it and of course an effective murder method, again which the state is now advertising. Quite the blunder, just so it can keep killing people.

Comment Re:What? (Score 1) 591

Sure, why not? There comes a point where an individual is so dangerous and destructive that a society cannot contain the violence they unleash at every opportunity. Life in prison merely changes the population exposed to that individual. Prison guards, staff, and other prisoners deserve protection from such uncontrollably violent people just as much as anyone else. Capital punishment reduces recidivism rates to zero. No one who has been executed has ever been found to continue committing crimes.

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