Need to update your partisan copypastas dude. The Obama administration doesn't like or dislike anything.

Well, to clarify, they shouldn't build nuclear reactors and desalination plants. The geologically-more-stable midwest should build nuclear reactors, and then use that power to fuel coastal desalination plants. I've thought it reasonable that, if there are supposed security risks associated with nuclear reactors, then some of those fears could be assuaged by locating newer, LFTR or other breeder-style reactors inside the security perimeter of military installations, several major of which are conveniently located in the midwest.

The purpose of government is not profit. However, to a certain extent, the government must compete with the market to attract employees, so the wages do tend to reflect the market. That the government offers less than the market is because of its other benefits as an employer, primarily extreme stability.

It's no one's fault, yet. There's no conclusions to the report.

The trailer was perpendicular across the road.

I have never given any social networking app access to my phone contacts. I assume you are on Android?

The reason that one incident got so much publicity was because the family of the victim was able to recover "sufficient" renumeration from the insurance company of the property owners. They never signed any agreements with AirBnB.

The articles about that death covered the fact that AirBnB sweeps in with cash in exchange for confidentiality in the event of mishap, effectively hiding most deaths' associations with AirBnB.

Actually, what *I* want is for the government to leave alone owner-occupied homes that they rent out all or part of for part of the year, while cracking down entirely on short-term rentals in residential zoning for houses and apartments that aren't owner occupied.

If you're renting it short term, and you aren't doing so as a secondary use to your own residence as the owner, then your doing commercial renting and should be subject to all commercial renting rules and regulations, including zoning regulations.

Wow, that covers all of your extreme examples.

Post your address. I would like to render pig carcasses upwind. Don't worry, I'll be incorporated and cash out long before my offal pond floods your property.

Or do you actually believe in zoning regulations? Okay then, let's zone long-term housing differently than short-term housing.

This is an example of the type of thing commercial rentals are inspected for that AirBNB homes are not:

https://medium.com/matter/livi...

Democrats controlled the senate with a supermajority for about 17 weeks, from the delayed confirmation of Al Franken to the death of Ted Kennedy.

Just exactly how much legislation do you think they should have crammed in to those weeks? The fact that they only got one piece of major legislation through is to me testament to the fact that they were taking their time to do things right instead of pushing through more pre-written, unread garbage.

As soon as that's mandatory for the cruise control in your current car first, amiright?

Anecdotal, but what I've seen is that the panels survive better than a typical asphalt roof. Those get beat up pretty bad in hail storms, but it takes a lucky strike at just the right angle to crack a solar panel; otherwise the hail just bounces off.

Now a tin roof of course would last longer than either, but most people don't invest in those.

One 35-year old working unit isn't proof, it's an anecdote. For proof you need statistics. And those are... math!?!?!

Interestingly enough, you might not even need one unit to have reached 35 years old for the statistics to yield that age. For example, do you not believe that the half life of Thorium 229 is 7340 years? We certainly haven't observed a sample that long, yet we understand how the decay process works and can thus use statistics to extrapolate a relevant average decay period. Similarly, if we humans understand the aging mechanisms of solar panels well enough, including knowledge that there are no threshold events that cause the decay to change to a newer, faster model, then it's reasonable to look at the start of the curve, fit it to the known methods, and advance it to extrapolate a useful life.

Not that I like bitcoin, but it's farming ASICs aren't magic money-printing machines. They are electricity-consuming (pseudo-)money-printing machines.

Someone could conceivably design and build the ASIC, and sell the ASIC, but not want to invest the resources or pay the costs associated with actual farming. It's sort-of like multi-level marketing companies like Mary Kay or whatever. They could sell their own products and keep more of the revenue, but then they'd have to pay the costs associated with retail business (salary, shipping) when instead they can sell the raw product and let some third-party person try to make the rest while taking on all the costs.