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Comment Re:Nuclear is a dead and dangerous technology (Score 1) 193

Your link proves what I said. America sends billions in no-strings cash to the Arab states that use it to kill and radicalize Americans. What Israel gets is "store credit" to US defense manufacturers who operate US factories that employ US workers. And unlike with the Arab states it's a bilateral deal that America profits from enormously on every single level.

The Arabs get billions in cash they use to bomb Israel, Raytheon gets paid to make interceptors to shoot those down, Israel gets bombed and blamed by useful idiots like you. Qatar, Russia, China, and Iran thank you for your service.

Comment Re:Nuclear is a dead and dangerous technology (Score 3, Informative) 193

Answer 1; Highmore South Dakota. Admire the pictures of the windfarm after the windstorm. So much for free power.

20-40 turbines were destroyed from an unprecedented microburst event, out of more than 70,000 utility-scale wind turbines operating nationally. Fewer than 0.01% are lost to extreme weather each year.

Answer 2, Night. So much for solar power, now you have to add batteries. Take a modest 50 MW data center and a 15 hour winter night and see how many Tesla Max power batteries (3.9 MWH each) it takes to get through the night, and then calculate their combined weight.

You mean a Tesla Megapack? The new one is 5 MWH. If you do the math, it's $150 million for the batteries. No idea what the weight is or why that even matters. You're not supposed to move it around after installation.

So $150 million a lot right? Well, the cheapest nuclear plants built in China is that price for 50 MW. Unless you want Chinese construction firms and more importantly the Chinese state regulators in charge of your project, you're going to pay a lot more than what they pay. The most recently built US nuclear reactors are units 3 and 4 at Vogtle, with a construction cost of $16.5 million per MW, or $824 million for 50 MW.

That's almost doubling the cost of your $1 billion data center by the way.

>Bonus problem, there is a heavy overcast today. The PV is at 8% of nameplate. (That's a real number by the way,) Now how many solar panels do you need to run the data center and recharge the batteries?

Same number as before. You just use the ones in Arizona where the sun is shining. And just FYI, we invented this concept called a power grid, so power production and consumption don't have to be in the same location. It's pretty new so you might not have heard of it.

Comment Re: 1:45pm western Washington weather report (Score 0) 193

Our homes are designed for keeping heat in.

Insulation works both ways. If your homes are designed so well to "keep the heat in" then they'd also be incredibly efficient if air conditioned. More people die of heat in Europe than of all causes involving firearms including suicide in the United States. Europe is full of failed states with third world problems.

Comment Re:Nuclear is a dead and dangerous technology (Score -1, Troll) 193

The government doesn't "send billions to Israel", it sends money to American companies like Raytheon that employe American workers in American factories. That money never gets to Israel. America also makes money off of the relationship with tens of billions in bilateral trade every year even without considering that Israel supplies America with about 5 times as much actionable intelligence as the entire CIA or the free advertising, research, and development America benefits from.

You're thinking of the Arab states, who get billions in no-strings cash that they use to build palaces and commit terrorism against America. Hezbollah alone for example has killed hundreds of Americans.

But hey keep obsessing over the Jews. That's been a winning strategy throughout all of history.

Comment Re:Two things both true (Score 1) 214

Ok, you doubled down... but you didn't actually say anything.

Lie. I've made an explicit point ever since my first post which you've refused to even engage with in bad faith.

Why are you saying it is a "lie" that Sanger was violating the canvassing rule? Everybody agrees he was, and he doesn't deny it. He simply makes procedural arguments for why he shouldn't be called out for it.

Double down. Saying "More people should become wikipedia editors" is not canvassing. It doesn't matter if a bigoted lynch mob lies and says it is, it isn't. Truth is not a popularity contest. "Canvassing" in wikipedia terms would be Sanger explicitly soliciting people to join the website and vote in a specific way. This is why even his fellow co-founder jimbo wales explicitly called out this vote as utter horseshit.

I've made this point consistently from the start, you keep lying about what happened, lying about what I said, and doubling down on your lies every reply.

You're a typical right-winger. The only time you shout "lie" is when you're telling them.

Projection.

Comment Re:Two things both true (Score 1) 214

He doesn't even deny it, he just makes procedural arguments why he shouldn't be punished for it.

Lie

And you're either not smart enough to understand the words, or you're too much of a dingus to stick to actual arguments instead of yelling, "Squirrel!"

Double down

(The canvassing rule doesn't say that people involved in activism can't be editors. It says that people who are editors can't use activism to gain support for their edits.)

Project. In the exact way you claimed Sanger was doing in your initial lie.Literally all Sanger did was encourage more people to become wikipedia editors in general. Even Wales called out the pernicious lie that Sanger was "canvassing".

Comment Re:revocable (Score 1) 154

Not always. If you pay money to get a ticket into a movie or a concert, cause some sort of commotion, you will be kicked out and you will not get a refund nor would you deserve a refund.

That is largely true.

But in the case of games, I'm not on your property. And we already discussed servers - I might not even be on your servers.

It might help to clearly separate these two cases: Pure online games with servers hosted exclusively by the game publisher, and the 90% of other games (single player or multiplayer with player-operated servers).

Because you are such an entitled moron, you don't realize how wrong you are about pretty much everything.

And there we have it, the usual ad hominem of people who have run out of actual arguments. Signaling the end of the discussion, because why the fuck should I bother talking to someone who says such shit?

Goodbye.

Comment Just make up the numbers (Score 1) 328

In 2016, there were 6080 pedestrian deaths in the US. In 2017, there were 7080. Ascribing all 1000 of those additional deaths, plus another 2000 that presumably wouldn't have been happened, isn't credible.

I suppose what they did is make themselves a toy model which related hood height to deaths, then applied said model to actual hood heights to come up with a number. Basically assuming what they wanted to prove.

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