I am beyond sick and tired of Slashdot trying to push the "Russians influenced the election!" BS that the left has been pushing. It's fake. It never happened.

Who cares if they bought ads on Facebook? Does it matter?

Does anyone seriously think people voted for Trump because they saw ads from Russians?!

The thing that caused Hillary to lose more than anything else is likely her shady dealings involving her email server and the FBI "investigation" into it. An investigation that could still be restarted as it's becoming more and more clear that one campaign did, in fact, have dealings with Russia: the Democrat's.

Face it: Whether or not it's human-caused, there is literally no downside to our species ceasing to dump unnecessary waste gasses and pollutants into our environment. Saying "it costs too much, it's too much of an economic burden!" is about as short-sighted as you can get. We, as a species, keep shitting all over the planet we live on, and through the magic of denial, expect there's going to be no consequences -- or worse, don't care because the consequences won't affect us, immediately, it'll affect future generations ("that's their problem, not ours, why should we care?"); reprehensible. We have the technology to move away from 100-year-old energy sources, why not use it?

The way you can tell CO2 doesn't have the effect on the climate the fear-mongers want you to think it does, is that as CO2 continues to climb climate changes do not track with CO2 increases, much less exhibit any kind of runaway effect which is the whole reason you were supposed to fear CO2 to begin with.

Luckily even for those of you that continue to fear irrationally, CO2 production will inevitably decline in the coming decades as solar and other forms of renewable energy take over for real, now that that are close to actually making more sense than fossil fuels.

Teachers are hounded out of the business if they don't parrot the political bias of the department head, principal, superintendent. Good teachers won't work under such conditions, hacks do.

Progressives.

> There is no such thing as an objectively-"correct" price for anything.

What we have instead is the market clearing price. Which no one can manipulate in a free market (per microeconomic definition, when certain conditions are met - perfect competition, perfect information, no externalities).

The price of something is the intersection of supply and demand. Individuals make value judgments subjectively. But the market clearing price in a free market is an objective outcome from these subjective valuations.

> There's no physical law which governs economics.

Indeed. Economics transcends physics in that the laws of physics could have been different (might be in alternative universes), but the results of free market microeconomics are in fact *mathematical* theorems.

These theorems apply whenever there are limited resources and agents must make mutually exclusive choices between them.

After all it is not like they are judged by any other metric besides spending money or anything like that.

Also go to India or get some college kid to run it for cheap. That is what any MBA will tell you and it is not like it is hard or anything to do.

My current desktop has 2 Xeons in it and room for 256GB of RAM. Mobile is always playing catch up. So while this may have an 'i7' and compete fine with older desktops in engineering we've just taken that to mean we get that much faster desktops.