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Comment Re:Christ in a chicken basket. (Score 1) 39

What if the YOB can't sign his own name in a recognizable way? Certainly can't use an autopen as much as he's screamed about that tool

Just going to apply a bit of Occam's Razor to this here.

You are inventing a conspiracy in your mind because you still haven't figured out that this guy is the biggest hypocrite and liar in the known universe. I assure you he has no actual objection to using the autopen himself, as literally thousands of pieces of paper that require executive signature go through the White House every week. It's already been proven that he used it on pardons.

If there isn't an automated way to affix the President's signature on things, the entire building would drown in paper waiting for him to get around to scrawling his name on things with a Sharpie.

Comment Re:So Trump hasn't actually done anything (Score 1) 39

That fee matters a great deal if you're trying to get health care workers like nurses that we are in short supply of.

Why the hell would you pay $100k to the government to get an employee you are going to pay $70k a year? You won't. And everyone's health care will suffer for it.

Also, if you're a doctor who is looking for work abroad and you have a choice between having to deal with the US government bullshit and this fee, or Canada with no bullshit or fee; which are you going to choose?

Comment Re:Good (Score 4, Informative) 122

Well this should be fun:

Wind power is the ultimate waste. There is no possible way it recoups investment.

The upfront investment can be substantial—a single 3.5 MW commercial turbine costs over £3.13 million to build. However, those turbines can generate between £2.79 million and £7.1 million per year in revenue. Source

Strike One.

solid metal center column that is encased in composites (fiber glass or carbon fiber). The blades are composites too. They cannot be recycled and are replaced every 7~10 years, with the old ones going to landfills.

Here's an article on the US DOE's own web site about advances in recycling turbine blades and composites.

Strike Two.

Farmers have to move fences and restructure farms to allow the trucks to enter.

I've heard of farmed salmon, but I don't think that's what you are referring to. These are OFFSHORE wind farms. No farmers, no fences, no trucks. Please stay on topic.

Each turbine takes 300 gallons of oil!

Jumpin Jesus! Holy cow!

How many gallons of oil does a coal plant use for lubrication and all the diesel equipment to move coal around, and move the waste ash around? How many gallons of oil does a diesel generator use over it's lifetime, and how many kW of energy does it create with substantially more oil used?

THE TURBINE DOESN'T BURN THE OIL TO MAKE ENERGY. You apparently know this, since you hinted that it's used for cooling. It's not used in evaporative cooling, so that same 300 ga. of oil will be there until the decommissioning of the turbine.

Strike Three.

You then go on to make a bunch of baseless assumptions that are loosely correlated to the above, which I've already shown to be monumentally stupid.

Comment Let me unclassify it for you: (Score 4, Insightful) 122

The sitting President is a know-nothing idiot who's primary motivation for basically anything is revenge and retribution.

He hates wind power because Scotland had the audacity to grant permission for a few windmills within site of his precious golf course. That's the "classified" reason he hates wind energy, and he's too fucking stupid to realize that offshore wind won't be seen by anyone that isn't in a boat, miles away from land.

Comment Re:Not good enough. (Score 1) 39

Reasons that matter, like "I don't want that shit on my TV, and it wasn't a 'feature' when I bought it and now you are shoving it down my throat" ?

Pretty sure I covered that in my objection if you read a little more context into it.

Not that it matters too much for me - the only LG TV in my house is in a guest bedroom, with a Google Chromecast hanging off of it so nobody ever has to deal with the dumpster fire UI that is WebOS and their unusable "I thought the Diamond Multimedia Gyromouse Pro from 1999 was awesome so we resurrected the absolute inaccuracy and shitty user experience" remote.

LG can do whatever they want, because I don't buy their crap products unless I have an absolute way to disable any of their software from ever being seen or used.

Comment Re:Before you get too excited (Score 1) 74

Or his obsession w/ peace

He has no obsession with peace. He has an obsession with a particular peace prize that he will never get.

People who threaten sovereign countries with a naval blockade - literally an internationally recognized act of war - do not get peace prizes that were not made up 15 minutes previous to it being issued.

Comment Re:Before you get too excited (Score 1) 74

His children are thoroughly unlikeable know-nothing asshats with even less perspective and ability to connect with normal people than Donald. It's a good thing they all have trust funds and shitloads of money, because they have proven themselves to be thoroughly worthless people unless you need to steal money from the US Treasury.

JD Vance, with his own weirdness and complete lack of charisma would have an easier time because he at least has a partially functional brain, even if it's overloaded with incorrect and stupid shit.

Comment Re:Before you get too excited (Score 1) 74

As soon as one runs who isn't a completely unlikable opportunist

And what would you call Trump, who was literally running for President in order to shoot the moon and literally get a "Get Out of Jail Free" card. And I'm pretty sure more than a few people would call him "completely unlikeable."

Pot, meet kettle. Seems that a fair section of voters don't have any problem with a completely unlikeable opportunist if that completely unlikeable opportunist happens to have a penis.

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