Comment Why own! (Score 0) 454
When we can become permanent rent/lease slaves?
Seriously, what kind of idiot thinks up shit like "You may not want to own a car"?
When we can become permanent rent/lease slaves?
Seriously, what kind of idiot thinks up shit like "You may not want to own a car"?
Because the monitors I currently have don't support portrait mode.
The other reason is I run a few older games that handle widescreen by rendering 4:3 and then chopping the top and bottom of the screen for 16x9.
A 1/1 monitor would restore that lost portion of a rendered scene.
Yeah. I go through an INSANE amount of vertical text every day. And every day I miss my old 4:3 tube monitors (but not a hell of a lot, fracking boat anchors...)
If the pricing on these sorts of monitors is reasonable, I'd find it a suitable alternative to jumping to a 4K monitor.
s/0039/39/
And All my votes are gone, thanks to you.
Uh. Unsure about the seriousness or intent of this post.
The problem is, Hydro in the US is pretty much peaked. There are some small hydro projects that can be worked. But Big Hydro in the US is done. And the environmental lobby won't let that go.
Increasing solar/wind/geothermal is admirable. But due to land use and appropriateness, I seriously doubt we going to see as massive an increase in these as would be needed to negate the need for coal/oil.
Nuclear, honestly, is what I'd prefer to see stepping up to fill the gap. Unfortunately, the "nuclear = bombs, bombs = bad" FUD brigade is going to fight tooth and nail to keep nuclear from ever being a choice. Which is too bad. Considering the fact that we haven't actually built NEW capacity in HOW long? Yet nuclear power's energy output has continued to rise over the last 40 years.
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.
We don't have to. Let's say we pass a few reforms.
Oh Goodie! REFORMS!
Things like house the homeless($10k annually vs $40k to leave them on the street)
So, back to Cabrini Green? I'd also like to know where you get your numbers from.
reform sentences and prisons(1/2 the prison sentence AND less likely to come back?)
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...
and healthcare
Which everyone else pays for.
The fed.gov already spends 90% of what it would take to provide single-payer UHC if we were paying the median for industrialized nations.
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.
The individual states more than pick up the remaining 10%.
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.
We currently spend ~$6.7k vs $2.9k. So fixing this ONE problem would enable states to put more money towards other important things without going into debt, help with the federal deficit, AND dump about a grand more into every family's pocket a month.
What does $3k a year, per person, pay for? A hell of a lot of solar panels and other sources of renewable power. We can improve our lives in a lot of other ways.
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
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.
We're talking about PU-238, not the abundant U-238... Though, I agree, your point remain.
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.
I've seen the clown car/duggar meme too. When I showed it to my wife, she hated me for it.
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!"
"A car is just a big purse on wheels." -- Johanna Reynolds