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Comment Re: if they can't make them stop hallucinating (Score 1) 85

Yeah. I have. Have them in the family. And I still can't believe we're still falling for the school supplies ruse

So you're saying your family is made up of liars? Neato.

Administrations that fail to support their educators with discipline, will lear the hard way, or the harder way. Soft men. Hard times.

You get hard for corporal punishment. Hard man. Soft brain.

Comment Re: Renewable+storage = reliable (Score 1) 172

Has nothing to do with "heating up".

You, sir, are mentally incompetent.

And now your parent says """At 3:42 p.m., a power line sagged into filbert trees near Hillsboro, Oregon, just southwest of Portland." This developed into a cascading failure that affected a very large region.""
Which is the opposite of an "overloaded" grid. It is a broken grid.

It broke specifically because it was overloaded, much like your pathetic little brain. Please seek help.

Comment Re:Renewable+storage = reliable (Score 1) 172

True that's one possibility, and may very well be what the political class is doing. The other is capitalism, which is more likely what the actual businessmen are doing.

Capitalism thrives on hypocrisy, it's just the thing to keep the masses of idiots stupiding along at their jobs so the wealthy can buy their 47th yacht. Texas literally has a vested interest in non-solar power (specifically oil and gas — they produce around a quarter of our natgas) so they need to keep advertising it so they can sell it, but they're not actually stupid so they also are doing solar and wind. Solar's easier to deploy without hassles because bumpkins can't see it from their pickups, plus Texas is prime sun country, so it's more solar than wind.

Of course, we have a name for people who are not stupid, and sell people a product which they know will destroy them because it allows them to live a life close to kings, and it is evil.

Comment Re: Pot meet kettle (Score 1) 104

You forgot about derivative works.

The definition is pretty fuzzy and varies for different types of media but the general standard is recognizable elements were reproduced.

No court has yet quite taken that up that I know of but you don't need to reproduce a work in full to have a derivative work which could be a copyright violation.

Comment Re: Bad Old Days (Score 1) 71

I think what you both haven't noted in this thread is that this is what Amazon does, and it's killing local retail because it can stock more things. Over time they open more warehouses and stock more stuff near you, so they can do it more effectively. So this absolutely IS what is happening, except the store itself is going away and leaving only warehouses.

Comment Re: if they can't make them stop hallucinating (Score 1) 85

Educators have better tools for dealing with problem children today based around psychology. They work ok when parents aren't sabotaging their children. The teachers I know who quit didn't do so because of that. They did it because the administration didn't support them, they couldn't afford to survive on their wages, and on top of that didn't have adequate classroom supplies. Ever actually talked to any teachers about this?

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