Are you saying you have a good relationship with someone who has no respect for you?

Or do you have no respect for them? I suppose that might look like a "good" relationship from your perspective...

Dang, that's my problem - I only didn't buy one of them! I guess I'll just have to keep paying my mortgage until the Vision II comes out.

You've got to wonder - since they've got a cord running down to a separate battery pack already, why didn't they just put all the heat and weight of the computer in the "battery pack" instead of the headset?

The only reason I can think of is that if it was in the "battery pack", then it wouldn't be terribly difficult to someday upgrade the computer without buying an entirely new expensive headset too.

I mean heck, it worked great with all the suckers that bought premium-screen iMacs over the years...

It I'm pretty sure she was fired for NOT doing the right thing - A.k.a. making sure her husband could either be trusted to overhear the privileged conversations, or couldn't hear them.

The fact that the felony was committed is pretty clear evidence that, one way or another, she has poor judgement.

Her husband is either a complete idiot, or knowingly implicated her in a felony without even mentioning it to her first.

Honestly, either way this is likely only the most recent and dramatic of a long chain of problems.

And while a spouse may be kind of difficult to replace, their value is only as high as the respect they bring to the relationship. Love alone may be great for dating, but marriage has always been a business relationship.

The extra scary part is that make it obvious that they don't actually believe their own religion.

If the act invokes the wrath of God, then why do we have to worry about it? Do they not trust God to be able to exact his own vengeance?

Or are they like chihuahuas running in a dog pack - utterly useless, but with an inferiority complex ten times their size that makes them try to start shit with anyone and everyone, while the real dogs are just chilling?

If the Right actually cared about kiddy-diddling, then the default punishment for rapist priests wouldn't be just reassigning them to another parish where nobody knows they're a kiddy-diddler. They'd be up in arms about that shit.

They only "care" about the children when it gives them an excuse to persecute a group they already don't like.

No they refused to prosecute because they had no evidence that he willfully retained classified documents. The willful part is what makes it a crime, accidentally taking some paperwork you shouldn't have happens.

Biden: I discovered I had these classified documents, handed them over, immediately searched for more, and invited the FBI to do the same. Exactly what you're supposed to do when you discover yourself in unauthorized possession of classified documents.

Trump: No I don't have any classified documents, and had my lawyer testify to that fact under oath. Oh, that unsecured room full of them? No, those are mine. You can't have them. And anyway I declassified them in my imagination without doing any of the paperwork required, so they're fine. You're confiscating them? That's theft! And yes you got them all. Oh, these? These are mine, and you can't have them.

One of those acts is not like the other.

Of course the cost of heat pumps plus 3x the area of PV panels is dramatically higher than solar thermal, so if your limiting factor is money rather than available area with good solar exposure that's not such a great trade.

What possible mechanism do subsidies have to drive costs?

You start overcharging because of the subsidy - all one of your competitors has to do is keep charging a fair price and they'll drive you out of business. Widespread collusion between small businesses is actually fairly uncommon - that's more megacorp territory, where the precautions and lawyers to avoid getting caught are a tiny marginal cost of doing business, and it's incredibly rare that anyone "who matters" ever goes to jail.

What they may do is largely eliminate the bottom of the market - if a $3000 system is the minimum that qualifies for a subsidy, then there will be dramatically less demand for $2000 systems. Who is going to want to pay for a $2000 system completely out of pocket, when a $3000 system is far more capable and only costs $1500 after the subsidy?

There may still be some niche demand for sub-$1000 systems, but generally speaking subsidy minimums are set with an eye towards the minimum widely useful system. E.g. few people will actually be satisfied by a smaller system for general use, and the subsidies aren't intended for upgrading for your hunting cabin that doesn't need more capacity..

The great thing about heat is that water is actually a *really* cheap and easy way to store a LOT of it.

Most solar water heated systems I've seen store at least 5-10 days worth of heat - after all it only costs you the price of an insulated water tank. Unlike electric batteries, it's easy to budget for the a worst-case scenario.

Heck, I know one guy that has a huge enough tank that he stores heat in the summer to heat his house through the winter.

> you have to use some kind of non-water fluid

Not necessarily. You can also have the panels drain into a reservoir overnight, with the circulating pump only turning on again in the morning once the panels have gotten warmer than the reservoir. Why have fluid in the panels when there's no heat to be collected?

A DIY system I've occasionally considered building: https://www.builditsolar.com/P...

Officer: So... Jimmy... I cant help but notice you just got yourself a new 200ft radio antenna in your yard that looks suspiciously like the one that mysteriously vanished from the local radio station...

Oh? What evidence do you have that the development has been compromised?

Potentially chasing away people who can't be bothered to understand the topic they're arguing about compromises nothing, and greatly reduces the amount of time people who actually understand the subject have to waste arguing against it *again* - which increases the amount of time they can spend doing something useful.

Some people genuinely bring negative net value to the table. And the greater the expertise at the table, the easier that is to do. Especially if it's not shown proper respect by people who lack it. If such people leave, both quality and productivity improves.

I'm not so sure about that "I'm not an idiot" bit - are you sure you didn't misphrase something there?

Because I'd take you up on that deal in a heartbeat - it's win-win for me.

Either the rapture happens, and I don't need the money, or it doesn't happen, and I keep the money.