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

OTOH, some cancer drugs give the choice of 9 shitty months with or 6 decent months then one bad month without.

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.

If the only food like substance within your budget (including time budget) is pulped meat nuggets sprinkled with sugar, guess what's for dinner?

> "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.

You say that as if American auto makers haven't gotten multiple bailouts and other special gifts over the years. You say that as if the U.S. isn't full of malls inhabited by tumble weeds and rats (literally) and doesn't have enough chronically empty residential property to house every homeless person here.

The U.S. is being strangled by the financial and real estate sectors.

The American companies manufacture in China for cheap but sell expensive in the U.S. The huge margin goes to executive management and Wall Street. They COULD profitably manufacture in the U.S. without raising prices, but Wall Street wants it's windfall and CEO needs a new yacht, so that's out.

The complaints are twofold. They moved their manufacturing overseas but didn't cut their prices to reflect the savings. So Americans are getting squeezed from both sides. Consumers can't force them to pull production back to the U.S. but they can (in effect) offshore the top heavy expensive management and Wall Street by buying Chinese. The difference is apparently around $40K on a car.

Different industry, but I have a Chinese 3D printer. It's not perfect, but it cost 20% of what a 3D printer from an American company would cost (which also wouldn't be perfect). All it's missing is a bunch of ugly beige plastic, vendor lock-in on the supplies, and replacement parts made of pure unobtainium. Believe me, I don't miss those "features" at all. It did come with full respect for my right to repair and a wide variety of 3rd party parts readily available.

On a side note, I did consider building a 3D printer from parts, but when I looked in to it, sourcing the parts in the U.S. would have cost me more than buying the ready made (some assembly required) printer from China.

Re: Turn off Fox and read legal book

Minor correction: read a legal book. [or more]

Re: " This is because civil charges have a lower threshold of evidence."

as compared to a felony, which often involves jail time. Civil charges generally only require monetary compensation.

Also, the (paywalled) NYT article appears to be an opinion piece. Different legal analysts say different things. Do you have a reason to trust ONLY legal analysts who say the DOJ is doing fishy things? Otherwise it looks like you are cherry-picking pundit opinions to fit your preconceived partisan notions.

FuKKK off, bigot

> Are you saying he's so fucking stupid he "got confused" as an intelligent adult raised in a modern society and didn't know he was pulling a fire alarm at a key moment during a legislative session?

No! I'm only saying one cannot rule out an accident "beyond a reasonable doubt". I 100% agree it looks suspicious, but not "beyond a reasonable doubt" of an accident. I've made really dumb mistakes myself when in a hurry. You didn't answer my request for BRD justification. Why is that? Are you in a hurry?

Turn off Fox and read legal book, especially the chapter on "reasonable doubt". Then you can reply like "an intelligent adult raised in a modern society" (your own words).

The civil case against Bowman may go further, possibly charging him with the cost of wages spent on dealing with the alarm. This is because civil charges have a lower threshold of evidence. (I don't know the status of the civil case.)

As far as some of the Jan-sixers being overturned, it happens all the time. Judges are called "judges" for a reason, and different judges make different judgements. A somewhat small percent being overturned is thus NOT evidence of a partisan conspiracy. Stop foil-hatting everything you don't like; bad habit.

Unlike Farty Don, who merely wants to shoot them.