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Comment Re:outsourcing (Score 1) 77

At least in tech, there's a new wave of outsourcing going on since the R&D tax credits ended a couple years ago, but it doesn't get talked about as much as the "AI stealing jobs" hype machine.

R&D tax credits did not end. The way they are accounted was changed. IIRC, instead of being able to claim 100% of the credit in year one, you claim 20% of the credit in each of five years. This is a rolling period, so after a five year adjustment period, the credit is essentially a wash.

Comment Re:Paper strips (Score 1) 142

If you look at the record of Republicans voting to fund the FAA since then (22 years is a long time ago), you'll find that they generally haven't been giving the agency the resources they've been asking for, even just to maintain a level of operational effectiveness, nevermind adequately fund a whole new ATC system.

Your link only says, essentially, "congress should have given us more money" and not "evil mustache twirling republicans are the reason for our problems." So, I did look.

The FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 (first I could find post Dubya administration) was, indeed, somewhat contentious (most house democrats voting against the final conference bill, though the senate was less divided). I don't know why the bill was controversial, maybe it was direct funding, but I don't have the data. The FAA Reauthorization Act(s) of 2018 and 2024 were both broadly bipartisan, so I will make the (possibly poor) assumption that 2012 was about other things rather than a specific dollar amount.

From 2009-2024, the democrats have controlled the senate for a total of ten years, the republicans for six. The democrats controlled the house for six years, the republicans for ten. The democrats controlled both houses for four years, the republicans for four years. The democrats controlled the executive for twelve years, the republicans for four (and each with a two year period of full control of government, with the democrats having a ~3 month period of theirs including a filibuster proof senate majority).

So, where is the evidence of your claims that this is a single party problem? Which record should I be looking at?

Comment Re:Paper strips (Score 1) 142

When the bureaucracy needs money and manpower to accomplish useful work, and one side has consistently denied them that money and manpower, I think it is more than fair to point the finger at Republicans. Anything less is just being purposefully ignorant.

Given that a Republican controlled congress (with broad bipartisan support) and a Republican president appropriated that money and manpower 22 years ago, I would say that you are the one being purposefully ignorant.

Comment Re:But iCANn think of many reasons to resist capit (Score 2) 18

I have this mental picture a retirement home full of demented nerds flashing printed copies of Goatse at each other.

The thing that gets me is the consistency. It feels as if there's a union foreman somewhere who has been ensuring at least one is assigned to every story since the late 90s.

<OldManVoice> Back in my day, it was all about hot grits and a petrified Natalie Portman, and Goatse was just a giant gaping asshole without a dick shoved in it, dammit! We had CowbowNeal and polls, and we liked it that way! </OldManVoice>

Comment Re:USB floppy emulators (Score 1) 142

When was the last time someone made a floppy diskette?

Just now. Every second while you are reading this: thousands run out of the factories....
However you likely have to look to Taiwan, Korea or Japan to get them.

As usual with your claims, [citation needed]. Floppy disks being sold today new all appear to be old stock manufactured in prior years or used, rather than rolling off a production line (and, really, "thousands per second?" If we define "thousands" in the lowest possible term (i.e. "two") that would be 7.2 million per hour, 57.6 million per eight hour shift, 288 million per five day week at one shift per day, and roughly 15 billion per year... which is triple the number of floppy disks sold per year at the peak of the market).

Comment Re:Paper strips (Score 2) 142

That's what happens when the shitass Republicans block updating the system for a few decades. And when America-hating senile assfucks in the vein of Ronald Reagan try to sabotage the system and leave us woefully behind in staff recruiting.

I'm just gonna put this right here.

Two decades ago, Republican majorities in both houses and a Republican president.

Comment Re:This isn't uncommon (Score 1) 163

As a licensed radio operator, you are eligible for emergency tags in the state of Tennessee. While that wouldn't insulate you fully from the effects of the law, I can't imagine law enforcement pulling over someone with emergency tags talking into a handheld radio, so this could be a solution to your problem.

Comment Re:Wrong units (Score 1) 108

So no idea what the first part of your post is supposed to mean. Either they are connected or not, in both cases: they are behind the meter. Or how do you pay the owner for his contribution to the grid?

...are you just trolling? You said:

Those batteries are most likely house hold installations.

but the original comment I was responding to said:

The current estimate is that the Calif. grid has about 16TWh of associated battery (excluding batteries associated with behind-the-meter solar installations).

To put it into the simplest possible language: No, that alleged 16TWh of batteries is not "household installations" because the claimed sizing specifically excluded those.

Comment Re:Wrong units (Score 2) 108

Those batteries are most likely house hold installations.

Well, given that the person who supplied that particular number specifically stated that it "exclud[ed] batteries associated with behind-the-meter solar installations" I would suggest you're "most likely" wrong in your assumption.

So they run the house holds they are attached too, and not "the country"

I'm wondering why you're scare quoting "the county" as if that were something I said rather than something you added whole cloth?

Comment Re:Wrong units (Score 3, Insightful) 108

The current estimate is that the Calif. grid has about 16TWh of associated battery (excluding batteries associated with behind-the-meter solar installations).

[citation needed]

California's peak energy usage was apparently about 3 years ago and about 52,000MW. Unless I'm doing my math wrong (which is, I admit, a distinct possibility) 16TWh of batteries represents about 13 days worth of that peak demand. I'm not saying your value is incorrect, but I would expect "California has enough battery storage to run the state for two weeks if all the power generation fails" to be headline news.

Comment Re:WTF is Uno? (Score 1) 74

That's completely irrelevant wrt to the search.

Typing what GP suggested into google gives correct and clear results that will even clarify the confusion about the type of game.

Speaking of "completely irrelevant," he wasn't suggesting search strings--in fact, it was quite the opposite. He originally claimed he didn't know what "Uno" was, then, when it was suggested he, you know, RTFA, he whined that it would not have been hard for the submitter to type "a board game, Uno that allegedly everyone is mad about" and further claimed that a game that has sold 151 million copies is "largely unknown."

Then, snarky me came along and corrected his misstatement that Uno was a board game.

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