The Entitlement of some people is just mind-boggling. "I have the RIGHT to shop any way I please!!" Pfft. People tend to forget their rights stop at the point where the infringe on someone ELSES rights.. in this case their right to NOT be infected by a bunch of prima-dona's that don't care to do the right thing and NOT be super-spreaders. The case where the congressmen that got infected hiding when the riot happened because some of them refused to wear a mask.. in an enclosed space.. those that ended up getting infected should be able to file charges for reckless endangerment.
I believe there was a law put on the books regarding criminal citations for people that spit in other's faces KNOWING they had aids or something like that. I know there were cases where people were prosecuted for having serial unprotected sex knowing they had STD's.. so why can't these people be charged with something? I know I would have lost my patience when they refused to back off after refusing to wear a mask!

I think it's a bit odd that the point of this article is to point out the corruption and the attempt to hide the free filing web page.. then fail to actually give the link to the free filing url? I mean.. c'mon...

Still pounding the table sweetheart? If you had an ounce of self-awareness, you might realize how neatly you fit the stereotype of a Trumptard throwing a fit because you don't understand reality enough to not continually throw a tantrum about everything.

Actually, sweetheart, let's put this to bed. Transcript of the part of the exchange in question:

Now, what you're saying is:

So, you're talking about multiple facts, several things. CT and KAC are clearly talking about a singular thing, the "uttered a falsehood" CT was asking about. This is plain. This is obvious. And the singular thing that they are both talking about is the LIE that more people attended the inauguration than ever before. The same question she over and over and over again tried to evade.

There is NO QUESTION that's what she was referring to. NONE. Unless ... You're either a) brainwashed, b) a giant apologist, or c) just plain stupid. One thing you are certainly not is rational.

Hahaha. Too funny sweetheart. I'm pounding the table? I'm not self-aware? I'm throwing a fit?

You're defending a proven lie and distorting facts, and you dare suggest I'm out of touch?!?!? You clearly have no clue how stupid you make yourself look. Because you're too stupid to realize it.

C'mon, I dare you to try bring some FACTS to show how Trump, Spicer and Conway ALL didn't lie. Prove that their claims that the inauguration was the biggest ever is true. C'mon, lets deal with FACTS.

Hate to break it to you sweetheart, but facts ARE on my side. (I don't know what you think law might have to do with it, though. If the rest of your post wasn't so magnificently idiotic, that would stand out as pathetically stupid) Conway lied, Spicer lied, and Trump lied. This is so fucking obvious only a fucking retard (everyone's looking at YOU) would think otherwise.

You're either a) brainwashed, b) a giant apologist, or c) just plain stupid. One thing you are certainly not is rational.

And last gen pressurized water reactors are not it. LFTR. Simple to say, easy to build and the correct answer according to the father of nuclear power. Safer by orders of magnitude than Uranium based reactors and requiring far less to build and maaintain, it's also able to burn up a lot of the radiocative 'waste' from the old model reactors. Runs hotter at normal sea level pressures and is walk-away safe.. these things could start being built inside of a few years. There has already been one that ran safe for thousands of hours.. the only thing that would need to be done to start using them is developing a commercial variant from the test reactors. years and we could start retiring coal plants across the world.
As a bonus they could be far more useful in manufacturing, smelting, desalinization as well as artificial fuel creation from carbon 'waste' to make a regenerative cycle liquid fuel that is a drop in replacement for our current gas and diesel fuels. It is the correct answer to the question 'how do we reduce carbon emissions and provide enough power for a 21st century world?'

and this is why our founding fathers thought education was so important. For a democracy (even a representative one) it's even MORE so. "Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one" Benjamin Franklin said that, and it's as true today as it ever was. For any government to say it's in our best interest to NOT have the ability or right to privacy in order to 'protect' us is completely full of shit.

Sigh. Just.. sigh. Ok, break down a power plant into 2 parts then, and we'll make this easier to grasp. ONE part makes heat. The other part takes the heat and converts it into power. Ok... the part that converts the heat into power, that will still have to be there.. the part that makes heat, you remove that and put a fusion reactor there instead. Now currently gas turbine is the go-to sexy for power generation. It's relatively cheap to build, easy to maintain and doesn't have a huge footprint. Most of the current crop of fusion reactors being worked on (other than the tokamak) would be equivalent to the footprint and cost of the gas turbines and have one very important bonus.. NO FUEL cost, or very small compared to chemical generators like coal and gas turbines.

That even discounts that some of the more radical fusion reactors won't pan out. Aneutronic fusion is the apotheosis of power generation.. there IS no conversion from heat to electricity. The reaction gives on 'beams' of supercharged beta particles and ions which are captured (for lack of a better word) directly generating electricity. This reactor could be housed in a building so small it wouldn't look any bigger than a residence.

There's also the tech-we-won't-use, a LFTR. It would be an incredibly cheap reactor to build, it's operating cost would be extremely low and have a footprint very similar to that of a gas turbine plant. As an added bonus the byproduct of extra heat it produces could be put to use creating manufactured liquid fuels that would be drop in replacements for gasoline and diesel.. to de-salinize water and heat enough to power industrial plants for things like smelting etc. it's fuel is cheap as dirt and it can even use the leftover waste from a heavy water reactor AS fuel. Pretty much an engineers' dream.. just not allowed to be built or pursued.

I mean, now we know Gygax stole D&D, Jobs stole the mouse and the desktop OS from PARC, Gates stole (bought) DOS from another guy.. holy shit. Can you imagine if the actual creators of these things had managed to cash in on their ideas instead of the icons we now venerate?

I recently stumbled on a somewhat similar situation, albeit on a much smaller scale. I recently decided that I wanted to update my 3+ year old S3 Samsung phone. it's in perfect working order, but there are new apps etc that I can't run on it, so I figured 'time to Cyanogen-mod this puppy!" I very quickly found out that the last update that was pushed to my phone, something almost like 2 years ago, purposely blew a 'q fuse', rending my phone unchangeable. In my opinion this was done maliciously and has caused me financial harm; if I could flash my phone with a newer os I would not need to buy one which is exactly what the carrier obviously wanted to prevent.

I know this is a trivial example compared to the expense of your tractor.. but it's becoming more and more common. Another example, my motorcycle has a computerized fuel injection system that is locked. It uses a proprietary software program to make changes to it.. I was forced to buy an after market fuel controller to make changes to the fuel map, basically an 'adder' only. The onboard ECM is more than capable of handling the increased fuel demand I need to support the after-market modifications that I made, but I'm locked out of the system and are unable to make changes to it.

As long as people continue with their blithe uncaring attitude about the gadgets and hardware they 'buy' w/out understanding what's in them it's only going to get worse and worse. Copyright law needs to change, and drastically. The attitude that 'doesn't matter as long as the corp makes a profit' has to stop as well. Forced obsolescence is NOT ok..locking people out of the things they own is not ok. This message needs to become important.

Ok, I'll grant you that our current nuclear reactors leave a lot of long-lived transuranic elements with extremely long half-lives. That's why In most of the enlightened posts up to now (that you probably didn't read or can't understand) people are suggesting newer and better designed reactors. A Thorium based reactor, especially one that is in a liquid fluoride moderator has NO long lived (at least none longer than say 100 years or so) fission products. Most of the ones it DOES produce would be useful in medical research and other scientific endeavors, AND to top it off, the current waste that we have laying around can be BURNT OFF in them. That's right, the leftover mess from 60 years or so of playing with nuclear power can be safely disposed of, making useful power instead.

Your supposition that we'll all be back to beating on rocks at some undetermined point in time is fatalistic at best. I can say that the cornerstone of a modern society is POWER. Before we harnessed chemical energy in a large scale manner that power came from people in the form of slavery. At every juncture in the timeline of humanity when there was a breakthrough in the production and dissemination of power the standard of living for the common man improved dramatically. There are huge swaths of humanity that still do not have access to the limited resources of dinosaur fuel we used predominantly today. You want to raise up the poor unwashed masses around the globe, and feed them better? Provide them with affordable cheap and safe power. Without power, agriculture, sanitation, construction etc etc etc are stifled. With it, clean water is made easy, sewage treatment becomes trivial, medicine, education, clothing, heating, cooling etc etc etc, all become possible. Cheap plentiful power is the ONLY way to advance the cause of the human race. PERIOD. Fossil fuels can not provide it for all of us. "Renewables' like solar and wind can provide trickles of what's needed, but they'll never ever be able to completely meet the needs of an advanced society.

I am disgusted by the droves of mindless nay-sayers who vilify nuclear power without any understanding of what it is they talk about. Endlessly belching out their vitriolic toxic idea that they've parroted from others w/out understanding what it is that they are talking about. You're worried about education in remote places in the world? How about we review what our own children are learning in the schools in our first world countries. When children know more about the pop-top 40 charts than they do the periodic chart of the elements, that's a problem. When modern adults can tell you all about pookie's day on some reality show but can't tell you anything about the history of the human race, that's a problem. I say take away their goddamned 'selfie-sticks' and give them a slide rule, and the know-how to use them!

What a complete bunch of horseshit. Stop lying.

It only gains nothing if you're too stupid (or just refuse) to realize the terms "Imaginary Property" and "Digital Restrictions Management" are the correct terms for what is actually happening. That's clarity.