Comment According to the ladwp website (Score 1) 498
Natural Gas - 26%
Large Hydroelectric - 7%
Renewables* - 14%
Nuclear - 9%
Coal - 44%
*Renewable energy sources include biomass and waste, small hydroelectric, wind, solar, and geothermal. So, I guess I'd need an "all of the above" option. This is the first slashpoll where I've actually learned something interesting as a direct result!
Comment Re:Take my love, take my land... (Score 1) 1270
Comment Re:Kudos (Score 1) 696
...because most of them pay no taxes
This is the thing that I hear from (mostly) the Right which pisses me off the most. The argument boils down to: Poor/immigrants/liberals/etc. aren't participating in society and freeloading because they "don't pay taxes". This is pure bullshit.
What they really mean is, they don't have INCOME tax liability. Even if I didn't have any (which I do), I am still paying social security, medicare/caid, sales tax, gas tax, car registration, and (by virtue of being employed) payroll and corporate taxes. Just because people don't make enough to be taxed on income, people act like they don't pay taxes at all.
Also, I am right in the middle of the Daily Show and Colbert's audience (26 and liberal) and I pay taxes; including income tax. Please find some other bullshit reason to completely ignore my opinion.
Comment Re:This study is nothing but Communist propaganda (Score 1) 961
Yes. To quote Jon Stewart, to Bill O'Reilly, "You're the sanest voice on this entire network. And that's a little scary sometimes."
Mr. Stewart went on to say that's "like being the thinnest kid at fat camp." I love that line.
Comment Re:Google-itis (Score 4, Informative) 368
Comment Re:Hard to say (Score 1) 515
Comment Re:Mutually Assured Destruction (Score 5, Funny) 1032
We just need to let them know that nobody ever said those 71 virgins were women.
Ah yes: a huge, eternal, post-mortal D&D session awaits the faithful jihadist.
Comment Re:Legend of the Seeker (Score 1) 298
Raimi also produces the Legend of the Seeker tv series. Make of THAT what you will!
Two things:
1. 'Produces' (actually, co-produces) != has a strong hand in the art direction, storyline, acting, etc. thereof
2. I actually like this show. It's reminiscent of the old Hercules and Xena shows, though not quite as quirky. For a TV fantasy show it has a few things going for it: very accessible plot, attractive females, and respectable fight choreography to name a few.
Comment Re:Its the blob! (Score 1) 424
Comment Transparency ain't free (Score 1) 434
Comment One upped (Score 5, Funny) 368
Human Sperm Produced In The Lavatory
Comment Re:Sorry, we are going to have to let you go. (Score 1) 836
Comment Re:They Made D&D Online? (Score 1) 178
Seriously D&D Online must have sucked pretty bad for flying this low under the radar and making a free-to-play version sounds like a really really bad idea...
Yes, your ignorance is clearly the standard by which all MMOs should be judged.
Comment Re:nice (Score 1) 665
http://www.conservapedia.com/Evolution Wow
... I first thought this was joke site, but, just wow ...
I disagree, it must be a joke site. This has to be about the funniest goddamn thing I've ever read:
In addition to the evolutionary position lacking evidential support and being counterevidence, the great intellectuals in history such as Archimedes, Aristotle, St. Augustine, Francis Bacon, Isaac Newton, and Lord Kelvin did not propose an evolutionary process for a species to transform into a more complex version.