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Participant[quote=FlyerInHi]This was said about Fidel Castro.
‘I’m Not Celebrating the Death of a Human Being’
I think that there was at least something just about Fidel. But Dick Cheney is very evil to me. I will celebrate when he dies.[/quote]
There is a difference between celebrating the death of someone who was evil and actively hoping they die. I’m sure you look at yourself in the mirror and think you are better than the “hateful Trump voters” but you are much, much worse.
Participant[quote=poorgradstudent][quote=spdrun]
Problem with the US isn’t our taxes are terribly high — it’s that we don’t get much back for the tax money spent. We waste it on homicide sprees abroad (aka, power projection) and abuse of our own citizenry (overpolicing, mass incarceration, war on the bugaboo of the week).[/quote]I think this is the main catch. Aside from a support network for old people, which most people with any sense of history and plans to be old one day themselves are ok with, we don’t get a lot of visible stuff for our low taxes.
A huge chunk of our taxes go to national defense, and there’s the biggest irony; a lot of people who want lower taxes want higher defense spending. The sequester actually was helpful in temporarily stemming ballooning defense spending, but unfortunately most of that eventually got exceptioned out.[/quote]
Defense is one of the few things that our FEDERAL government should actually be involved with. Almost everything else they do they should not be involved with and should be handled at the local/state level.
Participant[quote=spdrun]
Problem with the US isn’t our taxes are terribly high [/quote]Our cumulative taxes are at least as high as many of the socialist countries folks like you see to be fanbois of. My effective federal tax rate is 22%, my effective state tax rate is 7.5%. As a self employed business owner, I’m also paying the whole 15% of payroll. That’s 45% before I buy anything. Sales tax is almost 10% these days and then add in all the other taxes we pay (including property tax). I’m paying a pretty substantial chunk of my income to the government. I don’t want to pay anymore TYVM.
Participant[quote=SK in CV][quote=ucodegen]
An individual has much smaller resources than does a large well backed organization. The problem becomes one of trying to upset the one person one vote through mis-information.[/quote]You mean misinformation like covering Benghazi as if there really was a scandal? You mean misinformation like covering the Clinton foundation as if there really was a scandal? You mean misinformation like covering Clinton’s email server as if there really was a scandal? You mean misinformation like NOT covering the rape of a 13 year old girl by a presidential candidate as if there was no scandal? You mean misinformation like NOT covering bribes paid by the Trump foundation as if there was no scandal? You mean misinformation like covering this election as if it’s close? Yeah, the press has failed quite a bit this election cycle. The first amendment allows all that. In fact, guarantees the right to do all that. But despite all that rigging against her, Hillary Clinton is still going to be the next president. That’s how bad her opponent is.[/quote]
Rigging against her? LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
Participant[quote=FlyerInHi]
Not just Trump and his supporter but other elements of the Republican party. Unless, you look white, you don’t belong and you will always be questioned[/quote]This is ridiculous…You’ve been spending too much time on HuffPo and The Daily Kos.
Participant[quote=moneymaker]My guess is democrats have more than one feeder while republicans tend to have only one or none.[/quote]
What a silly assumption. I have a half dozen feeders throughout my garden..I have to fill them all every day. I should buy stock in C&H.
ParticipantNo way I’m voting to put the city on the hook for a billion dollars for a bunch of millionaires and billionaires (geez, I sound like Bernie…) when the roads in my neighborhood are crumbling. You could fit a large turkey in some of the pot holes around here.
Participant[quote=bewildering]
We need some sort of supportable opposition to Democrats. I am a little worried that CA might end up like Chicago/Illinois. With tribal politics and corrupt backroom deals to decide which Democrat will head the gravy train.[/quote]This is pretty much already the way CA is…
ParticipantThe part of your system most likely to need replacing is the inverter. Would you rather have 20-30 of them or just one?
Micro inverters only really make sense if you have shade over parts of your system at times during the day.
I got my system from Sullivan and I have a single inverter.
On another note, this month was my true up and I got a $200+ credit from SDG&E. 🙂
Participant[quote=ocrenter][quote=meadandale][quote=no_such_reality]Lol. You guys really don’t get it do you.
The rates are going up because we the voters drank the loo laid and dictated the percentage of green energy in the mix by given date. The rate increases are to provide the incentives for the renewables and for purchasing power from the higher cost sources.[/quote]
I found this interesting…adding all these renewables to the grid are causing problems…and they are just having to dump green energy. This just shows that the grid needs to evolve and provide storage solutions. The on demand model doesn’t work as you add a higher proportion of renewables to the mix.
https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2016/04/04/what-will-california-do-with-too-much-solar/%5B/quote%5D
http://cleantechnica.com/2016/05/15/ev-battery-prices-looking-back-years-forward-yet/
Large scale battery for storage will gradually eliminate this problem, and eliminate the “imported” energy seen in light blue.[/quote]
I don’t think battery storage for the grid will ever be feasible unless costs come WAY down. They seem to be focusing on things like compressed air and other more mechanical methods of converting electricity back into stored energy rather than storing as electricity directly. The mechanical methods tend to be cheaper and have much higher cycle lifetimes.
Participant[quote=no_such_reality]Lol. You guys really don’t get it do you.
The rates are going up because we the voters drank the loo laid and dictated the percentage of green energy in the mix by given date. The rate increases are to provide the incentives for the renewables and for purchasing power from the higher cost sources.[/quote]
I found this interesting…adding all these renewables to the grid are causing problems…and they are just having to dump green energy. This just shows that the grid needs to evolve and provide storage solutions. The on demand model doesn’t work as you add a higher proportion of renewables to the mix.
https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2016/04/04/what-will-california-do-with-too-much-solar/
ParticipantI’m still surprised that the power companies still haven’t done the obvious thing: put rooftop solar on their customer’s homes. Customer pays normal rates and gets a small leasing cost similar to what cell towers do for property owners when they install transmitters.
The solar companies are doing this and they are making money. Ten years ago I predicted this was the future for the power companies, but much like the recording industry, they just keep dragging their feet and living in the past.
It reduces the need for new long haul transmission lines to build new central capacity and new plants. It also eliminates expensive permitting and land acquisition costs, environmental cleanup and decommissioning costs. It really seems like a no brainer…
Participant[quote=enron_by_the_sea][quote=ocrenter]
” With the flattening of tiers from 4 to 2, the tier 2 rate of $0.16 in 2011 has increased to $0.39. ”
I verified this and the numbers are legit.
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Where are you getting these rates from? My June electric Bill (before I turned on Solar) had following rates Tier 1 (< 288Kwh): $0.18, Tier 2 (288-374KWh): $0.21 and Tier 3 (>374KWh) : $0.41[/quote]
That’s the old rate schedule. This is the current one:
Participant1) The increase will be over $5/hr when fully implemented (from $8 to $13.09)
2) This amounts to ~$7800/yr/employee. At $5/hr that’s about 1560 hours if the money was coming directly from wages. However this math ignores the additional payroll taxes that will accompany this increase. That could be where some of the discrepancy lies.
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