Right, the economist refer to this as "externality". Fossil fuels aren't cheap, if you factor in the costs that people using them transfer to third parties. Theoretically, if the true cost of using fossil fuels were factored into every pound of coal or gallon of gasoline consumed, then we would use *exactly the right amount* of fossil fuels. Probably not zero, but not as much as we do when we pretend pollution isn't a cost.

A lot of their reporting is extremely high quality.
Otoh, many of their editorial board and staff are afflicted with TDS.

I strongly considered a phev for my recent dec 2024 purchase because it's like to switch but we have a cabin 4 hours away and occasionally I have to drive to Chicago. Both would be inconvenient in a pure ev.

1) significant price step up from comparable ice cars
2) my commute is 10mi, so the 40mi electric range wasn't a deal killer...until I pressed the dealer on what happens to the range at -40 (which happens here maybe every other either now)... He admitted the electric range would be half of that, or a little less! Seriously...15 miles range electric, then it's just an over heavy weakly engined ice car.
3) we took a test drive, understanding that just local streets it should run mostly in electric and then kick over to gas in certain circumstances. This was complete bullshit. We left the dealership, drove maybe 2 miles in local suburban residential streets, occasionally tried hard acceleration and then about 5 miles highway. Aside from curb-to-parking-lot-exit, it was gas. So what's the point, again?
4) Aside from intrinsically higher repair costs with 2 drive trains, my local repair guy wouldn't be able to fix it so I'd be stuck with 50% higher dealer maintenance costs in 3-4 years when they start to hit.

No thanks.

Linux advocates "it's a tidal wave!"

No, you know little about S-band comms, I suspect.

This sub-band, 2025-2110 MHz, is used by both federal and non-federal entities. While specified for earth-to-space communications, I suspect that Starshield is testing the impacts of space-to-space and/or space-to-earth comms, for any of several purposes.

The 2025-2110 MHz band is used worldwide by other entities, also. If they complain, there will be some more information out there, and it will be fun to see who wins. If this is more than a brief experiment or whatever.

S-band is an interesting and busy place.

> Here 25 years later, the market is flooded with
>"compact SUVs" essentially the same as the
>Aztek, and just as ugly.

That's not fair.

The modern ones don't even *approach* the Aztec's level of ugliness! But they *are* painfully bland.

the first time I saw an Aztec, my immediate reaction was surprise that AMC was making cars again. It didn't occur to me that anyone else could make something so hideous!

If I were carrying, I would evaluate the situation:

0) are there nonlethal options?
1) is anyone else responding?
2) is lethal force a danger to bystanders?

Which is why I don't carry for now.

This is the nature of a Republic. We are the United STATES of America. States elect the President. That's how it was constituted. Hence our Constitution. Wanna change it? That's a fundamental change. Often accomplished by revolution. It, ignore the Constitution, as recent Presidents and political parties have been doing. Sorry, I believe our nation was well conceived, and should ensure as intended.

Everyone = enough in a democracy to change policy, eg a majority.

The rest are just whining bitches in the shadows.

Nope it really doesn't, except in your little self-justifying universe.

Then again, both CAN be true.
It could be racist flame bait (I'm inclined to agree with you) with a small kernel of truth.

And I believe the answer to your questions is almost certainly BOTH.

Yes, they absolutely do. (Except for the wee bit about getting everyone to agree with them and change things, which I think even dipshits like you would agree they did in the last election.)

Then again, it's pretty much the entirety of your posts, eh? Just ceaseless dripping of bile like an infected cunt.

Nope, you don't get to redefine words to fit your moral parameter.

THEFT is taking something that doesn't belong to you. Even very, very small children understand that.

No previous definition of theft ever included "so that I have it and you don't" until hairsplitting internet lawyers wanted to be able to download things they didn't own and not be called thieves.

(shrug) in fact I agree with you that the best description of software piracy is indeed "illegal copying" but in the vernacular, simplest use of the term, it's ALSO theft. If we're splitting further hairs, it's ALSO a less serious category of theft for the reasons you put above, like (for example) taking your neighbors rake without permission, using it, and putting it back. It is absolutely 100% theft; it is also much less important than a theft involving keeping or destroying the thing, I would say that's also self-evident.

Paul Krugman, darling of the NYT, insisted Debt is GOOD
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/0...

https://x.com/paulkrugman/stat...
"DEBT IS MONEY WE OWE TO OURSELVES
DEBT IS MONEY WE OWE TO OURSELVES
DEBT IS MONEY WE OWE TO OURSELVES
DEBT IS MONEY ....

It only make us poorer in aggregate if it crowds out investment â" which is isn't doing"

(apparently disregarding the obvious, recognized, inevitable consequences of soaring debt)

Let's remember: in the US, about 20-25% of every year's budget is borrowed against the future.
We are the wealthiest society ever in human HISTORY and we still can't afford all the shit we WANT.

That's insane.

Sure they will.
Histrionic language designed to spur sympathy.

No, you're being bought by a big funding firm. Nothing here necessarily implies you're going to be "victimized" in any way.

To be clear, I personally don't like VC takeovers, which is essentially what this is - they DO tend to have negative results on companies in the long run. But if a business is up for sale, the future for that firm is not "Happy lucky everyone happy utopia" vs "terrible VC acquistion". Rather, the options are "long dwindling likely painful death of the business as the incompetents running it who put it in that shitty place try increasingly desperate efforts to solve it" vs "terrible VC acquisition".

No, what this plaintive, emotional please is all about are people who are afraid that DEI really *is* over for them, and the last few years of triumphal leftism-as-delivered-in-games "Hello I'm nonbinary" is ending, so they no longer can destroy long-beloved IP with their political horse-flogging.

So fuck 'em.

I feel slightly bad for the people who didn't participate, but like the collaborative fucks who didn't participate but who "went along with" shit like the Bill Cosby room at Blizzard, to claim they're entirely innocent is also not completely true. Sorry. Ecosystems require turnover, and - while the Saudis might like EA to continue to survive as a money-making enterprise, after all and are reasonably likely to continue to fund the creatively-bankrupt money-printing of games like Madden 912 or FIFA v306 - if they prohibit your overt political bullshit and drive Sweet Baby out of business? All good in my book.

If only Disney were next.