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June 10, 2013 at 3:47 PM in reply to: Calif. utility to retire troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant #762577
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Participant[quote]So what I wanted to see is if you could give me a yes or no answer to the question: Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?”
Clapper: “No, sir.”[/quote][quote]Director of National Intelligence James Clapper is really struggling to explain why he told Congress in March (see video above) that the National Security Agency does not intentionally collect any kind of data on millions of Americans. His latest take: It’s an unfair question, he said, like “When are you going to stop beating your wife?” And it seems to depend on the meaning of “collect.”[/quote]
I gave least untruthful answer
No, that’s call lying.
June 10, 2013 at 12:45 PM in reply to: Calif. utility to retire troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant #762565Participant[quote=ocrenter][quote=no_such_reality][quote=The-Shoveler]Time to get the solar panels installed and buy a back-up generator.
[/quote]You need a very expensive battery off-grid arrangement. Otherwise, when the grid is down, it pulls your system down too.[/quote]
Did the calculation a few month ago, breakeven for solar panels were still over 10 years, counting gov rebates. The lease schemes all involve pretty high interest rates that they do not want to disclose.
Am I wrong about this? Anyone gotten solar recently?[/quote]
Ten sounds about right.
Meanwhile, 97 cent monthly electric bills with the AC set to 72 is PFN. 🙂
The leases make sense if you’ve got very high electric bills each month, think regularly into tier 5. Leases are problematic if you want to sell, the buyer needs to assume the lease.
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June 7, 2013 at 10:06 AM in reply to: Calif. utility to retire troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant #762482Participant[quote=The-Shoveler]Time to get the solar panels installed and buy a back-up generator.
[/quote]You need a very expensive battery off-grid arrangement. Otherwise, when the grid is down, it pulls your system down too.
ParticipantAl that’s because of the patriot act. If you talk about the stuff you’re being ask to do by the government, you’re labeled a terrorist…
ParticipantParticipant[quote]The Los Angeles Fire Department has failed to properly investigate misconduct allegations against the fire chief, top union officials and members of an elite unit that delves into charges involving rank-and-file firefighters, according to an audit presented to the city Fire Commission Tuesday.
The report by the agency’s top watchdog concluded that the process of probing such sensitive cases is underfunded, poorly run and plagued by sloppy record keeping and incomplete fieldwork. The department has ignored complaints and routinely allowed cases to drag on until after the statute of limitations to impose discipline has expired, the report found.[/quote]
Shocking I know. LAFD Audit criticizes investigations of top officials.
ParticipantI understand that Rich. I was thinking the median isn’t down 30%+ still is it?
Found my own answer…
http://piggington.com/images/housing_data_oct_2012-2.jpgWe appear to have been so low so long that I’ve forgotten.
But yes, I guess that does seem right. I remember looking at SFRs by the beach in HB and thinking $1.4 million buys a home with bleeping gerbil chew marks on the doors in the kids bedrooms?
OMG, I’m looking at prices today and thinking they’re insane, but… wow. Yep, not the house, but something similar, sold $1.4 in 2006, closed for $850K in 2011.
Participant[quote=Rich Toscano][quote=thebazman]
[/quote]Wow and that’s with loans being 30% cheaper.
Have we really fallen that far or was the peak really that high? Is the whole thing being masked by a shift in quality and type?
Participant[quote=FlyerInHi]CAR, the world is what it is.
like it or not, multiculturalism is here to stay. Closer to the situation in the UK, the UKIP may not like immigrants but the free movement of people within Eupore is here to stay and will only expand. They can resist and be angry but they are just hurting themselves. Why waste all the energy on a movement that has no future beyond a reactionary period?
it’s better to adapt and learn to like the changing world, or at least live with it with indifference. It’s just a state of mind anyway.
Multiculturalism is good for it spurs the economy. Sellers of good and services have to customize their offering to different clienteles. More commerce makes us richer, provides us with more choices and ultimately better living.[/quote]
What a bunch of university ivory tower pabulum. I seriously doubt you can provide a realistic definition of what you mean and show connection to any of your claims other than wanting it to be that way.
There’s a huge difference between have a diverse population that is unified and celebrates different ethnic background than unbridle, unmanaged migration of completely unprepared people for life in their destination.
I’ve been on the ground in southern Europe with business, frankly, I’ve seen the Manzanar like camps they use and seen the problems on the streets.
It’s not pretty and there really aren’t any joyful simple, can’t we all just get along solutions. The solutions are expensive, literally bootstrapping people from 3rd world subsistence to modern economy. Unfortunatey, given the misguided concept to celebrate their cultures and not integrate really dooms their children to be in the same economic situation.
Participant[quote=dumbrenter]Note: this post has nothing to do with the murder in london.
You guys are seeing this all wrong.
It is not the state policy (welfare or not) or multiculturalism.
It is simply about how people are taught values and how they perceive the world.
[/quote] As the old saying goes, point a finger and three point back. Everything you identified as to why Europe and frankly, America too, isn’t integrating new immigrants anymore is true of the immigrants themselves.
ParticipantWhile subsidizes play a part, the biggest item is the 10lbs grain is a myth.
The first thing you need to understand is what you think of corn is actually just the corn kernel. Humans consume just the kernel. Now think about a corn plant and how much of the plant is the kernels.
A cow on the other hand, looks at that plant, the entire plant and basically, can eat everything down to the root. They eat the leaves, the cob, the kernels, the stalk. Farmers regularly harvest the entire field stripping it bare and shredding into sileage to feed to the cows.
Wheat, mmmm, humans love ground wheat. Again, what we think of as wheat is the seed. It’s actually a grass. We harvest the seed, send it to the mill to be ground and us it. We then harvest the rest of the plant, call it straw. We use that for pen bedding, sileage supplement and straight up winter feed filler.
Farmers can and do feed their cows silage. They let them eat grass (the lucky ones). They cut grass and call it hay. Along with a wide variety of plants that they don’t have to plant. The cows will eat shrubs, small tree branches and twigs.
All through the midwest, you’ll be cruising along looking at the roadside ditches, full of weeds and grass. The farmers cut them, bale them and feed them to the cows.
Most importantly, factory farm cows actually eat pigs, chickens and turkeys too. Don’t worry, they’re all rendered into a nice protein supplementing cow chow of stuff humans (non-subsistence level humans) wouldn’t eat.
The reality in the end is in US, cows are about 2 lbs of grain for each pound of marketable beef and that’s just because of the finishing process for taste and weight before slaughter. In the undeveloped world, they get less than a half pound.
ParticipantBecause most of the corn produced in the country is not intended for human consumption. It is specifically grown to be feed corn or ethanol.
You can’t eat it, even after it’s processed.
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