Oh Goodie! REFORMS!

So, back to Cabrini Green? I'd also like to know where you get your numbers from.

Half the sentence? Okay. Less likely to come back? You can't guarantee something like that. You just can't. And dumping recidivist offenders back on the street just allows them to prey on people again.

Now, half a death sentence? If you can figure that one out, I'd be interested to hear...

Which everyone else pays for.

Sure, but I don't trust the government with a wooden nickle.

Or did you NOT notice that the country's multi-TRILLION dollar debt load.

Oh. That's cute. Expecting the state governments to kick in money out of the goodness of their hearts.

Sorry, unless someone's pockets are being lined at every step of the way, don't expect it to EVER get done.

You're assuming that the politicians don't load down such measures with pork projects. You're also expecting 100% participation, no recidivism, and nobody abusing the system.

I simply don't have that much faith in people.

Yet another asshole politician hellbent on fucking over people (in general) and probably enriching himself in the process.

Okay, fossil fuel power makes up the bulk of the generation capacity in the US.

Nuclear power accounts for just under 20% of total power generation in the country.
Fossil fuel power accounts for just over 65% of total power generation in the country.

Renewables?

TOTAL renewable energy in this country comes out at about 13% of total generation capacity.

Hydro being about 66% of that 13% (or 8.58% of total capacity).
Solar? 3% of that 13% (or .0039% of total capacity).

I don't think the country is ready to have two thirds slashed out of its power budget.

Seriously.

There's one reason this country enjoys the standard of living it has now.

Energy.

You want people swear off coal and oil right now when it makes up over 85% of the total power generated in this country? That's basically asking them to go back to living in caves. To having their kids die of preventable diseases. To going hungry if their crops fail or hunting sucks.

If you think THAT standard of living is so great, YOU GO FIRST. Once you've spent 10 years in your cave and proven it viable for the other 8 billion people on the planet, then, maybe, someone will follow your lead.

Until then, you need to shut the fuck up instead of flapping your gums on a subject you obviously know jack shit about.

Yes. *Sigh* I meant Pu238. It was a typo.

And yes, I happen to KNOW Pu238 is no good for making bombs. It's really good for a long term atomic power source for things like space probes.

Was a typo. I seem to be having an absolute buttload of those this week. I'm almost as bad as damnyouautocorrect.

Basically the US has exhausted its meager supply. And the few supplies existing elsewhere are being jealously hoarded.

There's ways to MAKE more, and improve nuclear power at the same time. But nobody wants to talk about it.

Because nukes = bombs. M'kaaay?

BOTH of this shit companies have damaged clients of mine and cost them insane amounts of money to repair the crap they broke.
Luckily they never got far enough in with my customers that they could damage their backups. So actual business data loss was minimal...

Sorry, but it isn't that simple installing a weather vane on the power connection.

You should have immediately asked her if she wanted to be the mother of 14 kids. That SHE had to give birth to.

I'm pretty sure the response would have been "Hell no!"

Seriously?

You'd take ANYTHING, regardless of how badly it fucks people over, SIMPLY FOR THE SAKE OF "CHANGE"?

Honestly? In its final form? The FREEDOM act was BADLY compromised. To the point where it would, in some ways, be achieving the OPPOSITE of the bill's original intent and could compromise our rights

I'd rather a bill like that get left on the floor.

Pretty much anyone with a brain saw it coming. That doesn't stop a lot of idiots who bought the shit sandwich from feeling burned.

Nope. Because most of the time, unlike when you control your infrastructure, you have exactly ZERO way to verify claims regarding robustness of service.

And keep waiting. Because they can't. Flat out.

And my mind immediately flashed to Michelle Duggar.

"Oh! We'll take whatever uptimes God sees fit to grant us!"

Unless you're the poor sonofabitch it's happening to. Then it ain't quite so funny. It's on par with having to take a computer in for servicing, and then getting it back to find out that the technicians reformatted the system and just destroyed your business apps and 20+ years of data.

Still? Why should the power company (and thus, other consumers (everyone else)) foot the bill?

This is not simply hooking you into the grid. This is also putting in equipment to allow you to push power BACK to the grid. That's neither inexpensive, nor trivial.

If someone wants the benefits of solar (INCLUDING the ability to push power to the power company and reduce/nearly eliminate their own bill), they can damn well pay for it THEMSELVES instead of reaching into everyone else's pockets and stealing a "hand out".

Again, forcing a "charity handout" from the power company to undependable generators that they (the power company) don't need and can't control isn't the answer.

That's like buying a car and demanding the dealer toss in thousands of dollars of after-market mods for free.