> They can't [handle?] any base load under many, many conditions

I know there are limits, but when we know the power is out, we could avoid certain activities such as doing laundry (unless everything else is off).

> Or you can buy an ICE generator (gas/diesel/natgas) at a fraction of the cost and have it working as long as you need, under any conditions.

Those are noisy and smelly.

I once was asked to use data scraped from a competitor ecommerce site without asking. And at another company to use MS-Access as the app's database but claim it was MS-Sql-Server to a potential client. (We were working on the conversion, but it wasn't ready yet.)

And another time the software wasn't finished yet, so they sent a coder to the client's site under the guise of "monitoring the roll-out", when in fact the coder was finishing it then and there.

I took these as a sign it was time to leave those companies, but during the dot-com slump that often took a while.

Someone justified it by saying, "if one doesn't lie, they will lose to those who do".

> Quite often looks just like it though. Like, just like it. "From the river to the sea", "by all means necessary", etc.

One can always find extreme or odd quotes from individuals if sought out. Jared's "nice beachfront property" gaffe is an example (assuming it was a gaffe).

It's argument-via-outliers.

> Israel attacks valid military targets

And I'm Clark Kent. Israel stuffed the West Bank with families as human shields: "We can't move now, we gots babies!"

> Meanwhile, you've got Hamas specifically targeting women and children for rape and murder and live-streaming the whole thing to the world.

I've seen no evidence that was centrally planned versus rogue groups. Hamas often does things decentralized to avoid com interceptions by Israel spying. Decentralization means more rogue activities.

Supporting Palestinian rights is not the same as supporting Hamas. Both Israel's and Gaza's gov't are bottom-of-the-line assholes. They are zealot-controlled Hatfields and McCoys.

> A radio signal takes about 22 1/2 hours to reach Earth from Voyager 1

Engineers having Comcast should be used to that.

people working on this are doing a much cooler job than mine

Actually I have similar problems maintaining our underfunded undocumented legacy apps, some pre-PC, but things like budget tracking isn't nearly as glamorous as interstellar exploration.

rather than being a feelgood title for some script kiddies

Yes, but at least my probe is web-scale and will thus get me a web-scale job! Fixing it at Uranus will be some other sucker's job.

Thank you for balancing the parentheses. Cosmic order has been restored.

> Where does the federal government get the legal authority to...

They have none, they just secretly swipe bank money from gov't haters using their Deep Network of pizza parlor basement servers. Some are even hidden under the basement, a sub-basement, so they can't be found by vigilante basement inspectors like Edgar Maddison Welch. The Deep State out-Scoobied the Doo.

Saving the Planet may require a bit of socialism. What would Jesus decide?

> more like [local] electrical company recalcitrance to preserve their own profit base

We wanted solar panels that could power our house directly if there were a power outage, which have been too common of late. But the local power co. rules are that you can't have such unless you also have a battery system, which greatly adds to the price. We'd be happy with day-time-power-only during a general power-outage such that batteries are not worth the extra cost & maintenance. (Yes, we know we may not be able to run all appliances at the same time under such; half is fine!)

But multiple panel vendors told us that was against local power co' regulations. What's the friggen point of solar panels if you can't use them during a blackout?

Reducing our bill by about 10% but having risky ugly panels on top (rain leaks etc.) is not enough incentive. We also want the "Armageddon insurance" of self-generated power. Greedy Jerks! During Armageddon I'm going to eat the executives there raw: "Sorry, I can't bake you first, you wouldn't allow blackout power. Now stop squirming!"

(FBI doesn't wish to track Armageddon cannibalism threats; Mulder and Scully are fake.)

PS, the US was sloppy with radiation safety also, but not the the extent of the Soviets.

There we go: whichever politician(s) runs up the debt* has to be a Boeing Flying Car test-pilot.

* By spending too much and/or not taxing the rich

Xi is out-Zuckerberging the USA: he moves fast and breaks people. Dictators have an R&D "advantage" when it comes to safety testing. It's one of the reasons the Soviets got their nukes up and running so quick once they swiped our blueprints: glowing people couldn't vote the glow-spreaders out.

> "not guilty" doesn't mean innocent, it just means you can't prove mens rea.

Didn't claim it did. And what's this have to do with sinij's original point?

It implied there was a legal double-standard and/or something nefarious going on in the courts. So far nobody has demonstrated such with regard to AlarmGate.