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Comment Climate has got the 1% attention... (Score 1) 200

Yep, the 1% sees their assets at risk. So it gets news coverage. Try protesting against Citizen's United or the banking abuses, and it would take far more people than 400,000 to get any kind of coverage. As far as I am concerned, SCREW THEM. Let their mansions get washed out to sea. If they can't address the complete corruption of money in politics, I don't give a damn about climate change. Bring it on.

Comment Re:Only cost them 25 percent of customer bills? (Score 3, Insightful) 249

It's worse than that! The company I work for has one negative review on Yelp, but several positive reviews "pending" that they won't publish unless we pay them! And the negative review was over the fact that they didn't yet have a quote from us for custom work for which they hadn't provided us the requested details. Looking at the page now, it does look like they published two of the positive reviews, but there are still a handful held in limbo. How long between the authoring and publishing of the negative review, though? No time at all.

This is enough reason right here to distrust EVERY review on Yelp. So what are the best anti-yelp sites? Has Yelp bought YelpSucks.com yet?

Comment Re:The reason why you're told to cut salt for high (Score 1) 291

My physiology professor explained it to me years ago. There's two reasons. First, we're told to cut salt not because salt is bad, but because we eat shitty food filled with salt. Telling people to avoid salt is easier than telling them to avoid bad foods.

Yeah, that's what I did. Avoided salt and went for the carbs instead. Now I've both high blood pressure AND am type 2. Worked great. Protein, often high in salt, or carbs. Choose your poison.

Comment Lisp, Forth, APL, J, Prolog, PostScript (Score 1) 387

And of course x86 or RISC Assembler...

old languages never die, the programmers just start charging a prohibitive amount of money to code in them. Forth is only justifiable doing embedded programming when you don't have an OS. APL and J are only justifiable if you don't have a popular OS, AND you're stuck with a low speed printing terminal.

Comment Why grid-tied home solar is unsustainable (Score 1) 245

The theory behind grid-tied home solar systems is that you can give your surplus power to the utility company who will give you credit in return for times when you need more power than you are generating. In effect, you are using the utility company as your storage battery, so you don't have to buy and maintain your own. This only works as long as there are always enough customers paying for electricity rather than generating their own. Eventually it's no longer cost effective for the utility company to provide storage service for free. They make their money charging for electricity, but if enough people only need them to store it temporarily, they are going to have to start charging for that service.

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