Ha!

Most likely not.

And very nice roads to run your Mustang on. Watch out for cows though!

I did say "small". :-)

Well, $80k will get you a pretty decent small RV, which I could drive to work!

Ocean warming is a bigger opportunity. Jabbing a thermal collector into a volcanic vent, rolling it through a sterling engine as a cooling system, with the cold side submerged in the cold ocean.

A lot of new, green tech is ludicrous. People want solar farms in the desert because of all the arid heat and lack of clouds, but discount the fragile ecosystem. Wind farms take up much more space than nuclear plants for the same power output. Hydrogen is difficult to store without supercooling, and is only a storage scheme and not a generation scheme, and only operates at 50%-80% efficiency. Hydroelectric is an environmental disaster.

Direct heat applications from solar-thermal water heating are about the only thing that make sense. Their efficiency is high, and their cost is low. A small, 1.2 square meter collector provides 3000BTU/hr, about 85% of a kW; I can fit over 20 of these on my roof at a sun-receiving angle and spacing, giving over 65,000 BTU/hr average throughout the day. My roof can produce 19kW of heat output, while I only need 3kW to stay warm or cool--the AC breaker is 30A, providing about 3kW of cooling.

A hydronic coil off the water heater, an absorption cooler, or so on can harvest the heat collected by less than $2000 of tubes and a total of $3000 of equipment to provide for about $2500 annual air space and water heating and cooling in my house. Excess generated heat could theoretically drive a sterling engine to produce a small amount of electricity, but the investment for more tubes to generate a useful amount of electricity would be unjustifiable; I can buy 100% solar electricity for 12 cents per kWh.

Thus, in just over a year, I can recover my investment in solar water heating by incorporating space heating and cooling, assuming I was in the market for a new furnace and air conditioner anyway--the furnace would be an air handler with electric back-up, vastly cheaper than a new gas furnace, offsetting the expensive absorption chiller. A $900 pellet stove would serve as a back-up. Overall, the setup would save an immense amount of electricity and natural gas.

In short someone who who could afford the car is someone who really shouldn't need the tax credits. An other case of normal politics.

The right makes it so the Rich doesn't have to pay taxes.
The left makes it so the Rich are the only one able to avoid paying taxes.

For $80k, I'll just get that...or a small house.

No mention of Penny's Tits.

Useless.

Because if it is, you need to pull your head out of your ass and go and do some extremely basic, cursory, research on the situation in the US. There are for sure some loud fundy Christian that like to whine about science, evolution in particular. However they have had little and less success in pushing their agenda and the US remains a powerful center of scientific research.

Trying to equate the US to ISIS is beyond stupid.

I agree,
but I think overall as the characters mature in the show, they become less awkward over time.
With the exception of Sheldon, where I kinda wish they would just come out and state that the character is autistic at some level. Instead of just making him a super scientist who needs to make all these trade-offs in his personal life to be there.
While I do not fall on the recorded Autism spectrum. The way they make Sheldon would be very insulting to people with these problems.

What I have to say doesn't really change what you've said, but for your own future reference and information, there isn't any way for North and South Dakota to split from each other without leaving the US. They're already separate states and have been for as long as they've been states.

The last time they were part of a common political entity that was itself also a part of the US was when they were collectively known as the Dakota Territory (1861-1889), back before they became states. And, at least if Wikipedia is anything to go by, it's sounds like their becoming separate states wasn't exactly a non-issue, since it was a power play being made by one of the political parties to increase the number of seats they held in the US Senate (each state gets two Senators, so splitting the territory instead of accepting it whole meant doubling the number of Senators).

You can't unwind the tentacles of the military-industrial complex all at once. You also can't ignore SpaceX and how well they have been doing.

This award is simply acknowledging reality. Boeing has to get some pork to keep the lobbyists happy, SpaceX has to get some money to keep them in the running. It will be a slow shift over time as SpaceX continues to deliver for less money.

SpaceX is playing the game... why do you think they are opening a spaceport in Texas? Gotta spread those jobs around to keep Congress happy.

The funny thing is, you can play that government game and get rich while still delivering an excellent product (SpaceX). It takes several generations of bloated military contracts to teach people to stop working so hard (e.g. Boeing, Lockheed Martin, etc).

I am curious on why Tovalds opinion on systemd really matters.
I congratulate him for his work on the Linux Kernel, He made a really good OS, and put enough effort and skill to keep a strong team of developers focused.
However that doesn't make him an expert in all thing. Even all things related to the OS he had pivotal to create.

The systemd argument is about methodology not technology. It is the same as most political redirect. Two groups with a different vision of an end goal, taking different approaches to get there.

Yep.

The last thing you need is all this shit hooked up to some site on the internet. If they were smart, they would deliberately design it so it can't get to the internet. Because you know some dickhead will break in and wreak havoc and then claim they were just trying to expose weak security or some other bullshit like that.

Because they manipulate each others's data directly, instead of passing messages, thus opening the potential for one functional unit to pass and integrate unvalidated data into the memory space of another functional unit; and because a systemic failure in one unit will bring down the entire system; and because the security contexts of various functional units differ, thus differing policies may apply; and because you may restart or reconfigure one functional unit without interrupting the others.

It's the same question as why not to make bash, sed, perl, X11, and Firefox kernel modules.