Shepard Smith says goodbye to Fox News

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The goal is to reduce atmospheric CO2, not boost profits of Wall Street hedge fund managers.

The cost of solar power generation is falling thru the floor. What costs are you worried about? APS's ridiculous markups?

Medicare / Medicaid does nicely, out performing all the private insurance companies. As measured by medical loss ratio, spending, and outcomes.

Your turn.

That phrase was added by AZ Attorney General Mark Brnovich at the request of energy company Arizona Public Service. Quid pro quo.

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This conflict of interest is being publicized every day in Arizona. I don't even live there, nor do I have a dog in this fight. How do I know this and you don't?

Please. Try harder next time. Do your research. Or at least be a better troll.

Do not role your own solution. You're effectively crippling your org once you leave. Which will eventually happen.

I've done IT for small non-profits. Used both Access, FileMaker Pro. The third party apps targeting non profits range from okay to terrible. Biggest challenge is customizations and forward porting that crap. No different than orgs which customized bugzilla and then had rework when a new bugzilla comes out.

What we're doing now is moving to SalesForce. It's free for small non-profits.

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I'll let you know how it works out.

I'm ambivalent about features and so forth. But hopefully the larger community of SalesForce talent will make future continuity easier.

One big win will be the ecosystem of add-ons. My current org is excited about using the CRM features to improve engagement with clients and donors. The kind of crap I really don't want to write myself, yet again.

A software architect would know about Ken Thompson's "Reflections on Trusting Trust" paper.

Yea? How's a court of law sit with you? The election results in New Mexico 2004 were fraudulent. Here's the link to Voter Action's lawsuit.

Were the machines actually hacked, as in malicious intent? Well, that's the rub, isn't it? Kind of hard to prove when there's no physical evidence. Either way, wrong is wrong. Whether be default or by design. Kerry still got more votes than Bush in New Mexico. Yet Bush was awarded the electoral votes.

Both incorrect and impossible. As this comment upstream notes:

It's really very simple.

Private voting and public counting.

Secret ballots and transparent elections.

That is only possible with paper ballots. (The ballot box is the secure one way hash.)

Any electronic voting system eliminates both voter privacy and the ability to inspect the results.

Let us say you shut your air scoop until you learn something about voting systems.

Citation please. Thanks.

I only buy Fair Trade chocolate. A lot of it. I'll be bummed if it's still harvested by children.

Please tell us when you publish your thesis.

Please. You're making a stink about someone else's personal choice(s)?

I don't want a female proctologist or a male massage practitioner.

Does that make me a misogynist, a misanthrope, both, or neither?

I might be wrong, but I think MS employees tend to be better integrated into the local community.

I can't make a generalization of that scope.

There's definitely been stages in the "maturity" of Microsoft. Early Microsoft was uber geek, for sure.

Now, it's more like Boeing than Google, just a megacorp filled with corporate wage slaves.

What you did right there is called "projection". It's when you accuse someone else of your own failings. It's a signature trait of the mentally ill.

Pretending for a moment that you have the ability to reason, let's ask a simple question:

How does using less energy make me poorer?

I insulate my house, I drive less, I buy better appliances, I eat locally grown food, and so forth means that -- wait for it -- I save money.

Living more sustainably makes me more wealthy.

I do more with less. But in your world view, being anything less than a glutton is somehow morally wrong.

Okay, lesson time's over.

Please, resume banging those rocks together. And pass the Cheetos. Ook, ook.

You are worse than wrong. There are no alternative explanations.

Scientists follow the principles of Popperianism.

Theories must be falsifiable. Each theory must have tests for which if false, disprove the theory.

Further, for a theory to be accepted, it must do a better job of explaining reality.

You can't merely say something is wrong. You have to say how it's wrong AND have a better explanation.

Um, no. And this cute belief system of yours disqualifies you from the discussion.

So, please, run back to your cave and resume banging the rocks together. See how far that gets you.

Our opponents are not interested in reality. Data, facts, logic, reason be damned.

These are the culture wars. The battle lines have been drawn. Long ago. One side wants the best outcome for the most people. The other side wants to win. At all costs.

I don't mean to be catty, but where have you been these last 30 years, especially the 8 years of Bush The Lesser?

As a progressive I used to think that we could all sit down, have a reasonable chat, sort all this shit out. Fail at that enough times, and you'll (hopefully) learn that the only thing the troglodytes respect is power. It's distasteful. But the alternative is plutocracy, theologians, and the continued descent downwards.