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[quote=no_such_reality]According to US Department of Energy, Solar is 60% more expensive in total than coal. 40% more expensive than advanced coal cleaning technologies and more than DOUBLE the total cost of Natural Gas in a conventional plant. And these aren’t dirty plants, these are plants going into production in 2018, so they have the current environmental cleaning factors.

The report is Levelized Cost in New Energy Production

So, new advanced combined cycle natural gas plants produce for 6.6 cents/KwH, and Solar production with photo-cells comes in at $14.4 cents/KwH[/quote]True for solar if centralized generation, not true if decentralized. Decentralized generation removes the electrical transportation costs including line loss and line maintenance. The line loss is actually quite significant. Go under any high power line, near the towers and you will hear a lot of ‘crackling’. That is actually an electrical arc, which translates into wasted energy. I am not even considering EM coupling with the ground and the losses incurred there. In some cases, you can take a long florescent tube and hold it while under power lines and it may glow (depends upon the voltage and current in the line).

http://hacknmod.com/hack/field-of-fluorescent-tubes-powered-by-ambient-current/

http://www.doobybrain.com/2008/02/03/electromagnetic-fields-cause-fluorescent-bulbs-to-glow/

What is interesting is that the tubes are pointing vertical, using earth as ground while the actual generated magnetic fields on high power lines are radial about the line. Looks like he is only using the E-field.

BTW it takes a lot of voltage to ‘ignite’ a florescent. My recollection is that you are looking at around 3000 volts.

Imagine all this electrical leakage over the distance that these power lines run (ie Hoover Dam to Los Angeles).

Having solar arrays on the roof also reduce the heat transfer into the attic, and thereby your cooling costs during the summer.

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[quote=SD Realtor]Rich definitely go for it. PQ trail is a nice place to start. There are two entry points, one near Black Mountain Canyon park near the horse stables and another down at the bottom of the canyon kind of near the base of Qualcomm Hill.[/quote]There is another entry point on PQ trail, located across from Creekside Elementary. You can also get at the trail near the sewage treatment plant across from I-15. The trail passes under I-15. There is at least one other entry point to the east of Creekside, but I haven’t had the opportunity to explore it yet. I tend to do a run from Sorrento Valley PQ parking lot, up to Creekside and then back when I need to burn some energy.

GPS(s):
Entry off of Vista Sorrento = 32.904863,-117.22311 (runs north side of PQ).
Sorrento Valley PQ parking lot = 32.906587,-117.206624 (south side of PQ).
Black Mtn Road parking lot = 32.939018,-117.129649
Near Sewage Treatment plant = 32.943754,-117.107605 – don’t know how the parking arrangement along Cara Way.
Creekside Elementary location = 32.945273,-117.075999

It is also possible to drop into Penasquitos from Camino Ruiz park, but I would not recommend it until you get fairly good at balancing the bike – going down, you are often nose-down, hard on the brakes, followed by trail turning sharply and briefly climbing a short distance than more down. I also recommend a helmet if you take this path – Low branches. Respect people coming up the trail. Biking up the trail is a bit, um, interesting.

May be able to enter it at Sunwood Trail..
May also be able to enter at the back of one of the large buildings parking lot off of Scripps Summit.

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[quote=scaredyclassic]You’re welcome to come convert to Judaism, but we are definitely not coming to your door or going to encourage you. That said, it’s going to be hard to replicate the level of post holocaust Jewish mother level of guilt in your psyche just by getting familiar with a few prayers. But I’d be willing to help try to instill this in you for a low fee…[/quote]I thought it was the Catholic mother that dealt in the high psyche guilt level, particularly guilt instilled during adolescence and pubescent periods of development.

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[quote=Rich Toscano]What? That’s just dumb. Anyone can convert to Judaism, the religion. You can’t convert to being of “Jewish” ancestry/genetics, just like you can’t convert to being of any particular genetics.

I’m going to need you to knock off the Jew-bashing… I don’t want this kind of garbage on my site.[/quote]
Part of his statement is actually correct (A part only). There is a small group of Jewish who believe that you have to have both the faith and the genetic background to be ‘truly’ a Jew or of Gods ‘chosen’. It is a form of elitism.

As for why they rise in the ranks of power, it has nothing to do with being ‘Jewish’. It is likely because a Jewish mother seems to be ‘related’ to the Asian Tiger Mom. Slacking off in your studies is not tolerated, and ‘you are going to be a doctor if I have to haunt you from the grave!’. If you have not become a doctor, than you are a disgrace to the family.

You don’t plan for success and become successful by playing video games and goofing off. A Jewish child’s spare time is taken with piano/music lessons, foreign language, and accelerated learning (fundamentals including hard science vs the fuzzy soft stuff now taken for science in many schools). — Hard work, not slacking off, brings success.

As for the final statement

Membership of this highly selective club (0.2% of the world population) must carry its benefits…

It does. Look up lack of genetic diversity and what it causes. Being 0.2% of population and restricting marriage to only that group causes in-breading and all that comes with it. I think the group that believes in both the genetic and the religious aspect are the Ashkenazi (though that line is also starting to blur – Reform movement). Terms to look up:
Jewish inbreeding
Endogamy
Jewish chosenness
Haredi Judaism
Ashkenazi diseases
Tay-Sachs
Gaucher’s disease
..

closing this as: “Jews in the family Tree, though myself not a Jew”.

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The Fed seems to be intent on re-inflating the real-estate ‘bubble’. Wages have not gone up significantly, unemployment rate is understating employment(those who are unemployed past 6mos are not counted), underemployment may be significant, yet we are getting increases in RE prices approaching 25% annually. I wouldn’t call this ‘healthy’.

I think they are going to probe the market response with a statement that they ‘may’ continue QE for another quarter to prevent softening of the market. If the market responds upwards with this statement, they will delay easing QE. If the market responds with a drop – can’t predict but suspect they may ease off, though not as aggressively as planned (not that the reduction is really that significant in light of how much money has been ‘stuffed’ into the market). The only real ‘inflation’ I have been seeing is in RE and food prices (in that order).

–at least this is what my tea leaves are telling me. Swirl the cup again and they may read differently.

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[quote CDMA ENG]UV cannot pass through glass.[/quote]Actually, glass is transparent to longer UV wavelengths, reflective to shorter UV wavelengths. This is why you do use a UV filter on cameras, particularly film types. With film, it tends to expose all colors, washing out the sky (deep blue sky ends up looking baby blue). With digital sensors, I am seeing almost the opposite behavior, where the sky gets a deeper blue w/o a UV filter. Behavior could depend upon manufacturer. Glass passes 90% of light above 350nm, but blocks below 90% below 300nm.

NOTE: Blacklights use a glass bulb. Woods glass used to be used, but now it is only a coating.

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The dominate collective culture of Orange County California which is racist, hateful to those who are homeless/economically disadvantaged and full of small minded gun loving jesus loving boot lickers. Temecula has an element of the OC “white trash/ultra conservative” mentality as well.

You have no clue. This conservative, pro-gun, ‘white-trash’, ‘uneducated’, ‘inbread’ individual despises the verdict. While you claim to understand the ‘conservative mind’ and individual, you don’t. In fact your portrayal of their ‘anti-government’ attitude is in direct conflict of your portrayal of their liking authority(boot licking). You can’t argue black and white at the same time.
— I suspect the prosecution failed, didn’t try. Unfortunately the prosecutors office and police department are often too closely associated. The jury can only go on what is presented.
NOTE: The reason some ‘ultra conservatives’ are so strongly against gun control is because they feel that personal ownership of firearms are the last bastion against a government gone tyrannical. BTW: Police department, FBI, NSA are all extensions of the executive office of the government. Congresses and Senates are extensions of the Legislative and Judges/Courts are extensions of the Judicial. Make sure you understand the structure, chain of authority and interrelations before you point blame.

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[quote=6packscaredy]Just know my kids and their friends.

Strongly disagree. They are sharper and more diligent than my peers were.

They are hopeful but not entitled.

My kid go a c plus on his 1st calculus test at sdsu but finished the class with an A- . We told him to figure that shit out or we we weren’t paying.[/quote]What I have seen is the split between the diligent and hard working vs. the self-entitled children has widened. I take your calculus kid and raise you a Community College Sophomore who will need to retake beginning Algebra… yet again. Parents thought that everything would be hunky-dory if they were really nice and got him what he wanted. Don’t even get me started on this kids language and writing skills. The kid is not stupid, just very lazy and will only do the least possible. Could be that your terms (not paying for C or below) might have been the motivation?

PS: I was one of the ‘other’ kids. I completed HS having already taken Calculus. There were diligent and self-entitled ‘back then’. I just seem to see more self-entitled now.

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[quote=CA renter]If a Qualcomm employee (or employee of any private company not doing govt work or under strict govt regulations) had a spouse who was a memeber of the Hells Angels, would they launch a full-on investigation of their employee?[/quote]Strawman – not apples/apples comparison. A dispatcher can tell her husband that a raid was coming..

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[quote=spdrun]But I agree with you re: working hours. And feel that a good safety-net is one way to reduce job-related stress and discrete hiring costs (thus enabling employers to hire more people with fewer average hours). This should be beneficial in itself.[/quote]A good ‘safety net’ doesn’t encourage better working conditions. It may actually do the opposite. It also helps people stay out of work and not bother complaining to their legislators about the unfair tactics some companies use. Its a form of throwing money at someone to keep them quiet.

Simple approach would be to reduce H2Bs (it is reducing the wages of the white collar labor force), tighten the borders/stop giving citizenship away (it is reducing the wages of the blue collar labor force). Labor is a supply/demand function. A lot of the need for the high hours needed to make profits has been from the 3 Ps (Piss Poor Planning). Companies not wanting to invest in tools&training because the labor is cheap enough to throw manpower at it. Contributing to it is something that almost looks like the inverse Peter Principle. The incompetent get promoted because they don’t offend and are no threat to the ladder climbers above them (they are not likely to be able to cut ahead of them due to better skill). To offset the effect on the company, they work the bottom end harder (not smarter)… so how is extending a social safety net going to help here?

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[quote=paramount][quote=CA renter] I know it doesn’t fit into your (extremely uninformed) conceptions about public service, but most public agencies only higher people with above-average IQs (but not so high that it might indicate the potential for “unusual” behavioral or thought patterns).[/quote]

You know CAR I think you’re absolutely right; just the other day there was a city of san diego pothole crew in front of my building; and while it was partly obscured by old tar out of the corner of my eye I noticed the following bumper sticker on the back of their dump truck: Cal Tech Alumni![/quote]Probably the Civil Engineer, though usually the Cal Techs can almost write their own ticket (does depend on the field though). I have found Cal Tech to be ‘interesting’. Undergrad is not as good as some of the UCs, graduate studies is where Cal Tech shines.

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[quote=CA renter]I cannot speak for all — or most — public agencies, but when I applied for a job in the public sector (not law enforcement), they screened using a federal database, IIRC. I believe they did this with my DH as well. This was fingerprinting and basic criminal/background check. Not sure if that’s what you’re talking about. Anything specific that you can elaborate on?

FWIW, I once had to get a federal security clearance about 20+ years ago, and this was much easier to do than to apply for/get screened by the LAPD.[/quote]
It is easier because all of the work for the Clearance was done behind the scenes. The police are ‘assuming’ you are telling the truth, the Clearance doesn’t. They don’t bother that much with the questions, they are just a starting point. If you lie on them, then you will immediately be disqualified, even if it is insignificant. The clearance starts with the fed database and then individual investigators fan out and contact, pull leads, etc.

NOTE: The difficulty/thoroughness of the background also depends upon the type of clearance being issued. Order of increasing ‘anal-probe’ roughly as follows; DOD Secret, DOD TS, NSA-SCI. The last has several ‘grades’ in itself.

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[quote=CA renter]Right, you don’t state it, and then hope that they don’t find out. Good luck with that.

While I’m sure a few people might have gotten away with that (and only assuming they were fairly minor issues), I’m willing to bet it is a very small minority.[/quote]It is a bet you would probably lose. While there are many good cops, there are too many with chips on their shoulder, and problems in their lives. It is harder for them to reject candidates because they need them fairly badly.
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I know what sociopaths are, and acknowledge that some sociopaths have probably managed to get into the police force (and other LE positions at all govt levels), but these agencies most definitely do everything they can to weed them out.[/quote]Yes and no. The nature of the sociopath is to conceal and ingrate themselves. It is only through sufficient cross-checking that you catch them.
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FWIW, I think that some recruits might start with borderline personality/psychological issues, but the work can change them into full-blown problems. That is probably very likely, IMO.
[/quote]I don’t think it is the work, it is the access to authority and power over people, which is something that a sociopath craves. This also contributes to making it hard to weed them out. Would a sociopath rather go through a DOD/DIS/NSA screen to work behind a computer screen anonymously, or to go through a Police admission screen and then carry a gun in public and order people around? It also pulls in people who have authority complexes.
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If you doubt that they have some of the most thorough and invasive screening procedures (especially relative to the private sector), what else do you think they can/should do, given their resources? How would you make the screening more thorough? I’m genuinely interested in hearing your ideas.[/quote]Might be useful to try to combine the search resources instead of using separate agencies. This might run across some privacy issues for police, but handle it like it was a Federal DOD issue instead of a state. If you want the job, must go through this screen.

As for personality, it is hard to find the socios until they reveal their hands.

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[quote=CA renter]Did you even read the LAPD questionnaire to see what kind of information they have to provide? And all of it will be verified.[/quote]
I can answer quite definitively here.. it is NOT all verified. They don’t have the budget that the DOD has for backgrounds. They don’t have the resources of the NSA and Defense Investigative Services. They also have a shorter time fuse than getting a DOD clearance.

[quote=CA renter]And I’m not 100% sure (and can’t call any of my friends this late to check), but am 90% sure that people who apply for a securities license do not have to detail and explain every single bit of their debt and expenses — sometimes going back many years. Both might have their credit checked, but the LE hiring process is much more invasive and thorough.[/quote]
Umm.. not quite. The trick to get something past them is NOT to state it. Again, the police investigators do not have the DOD and DIS resources. I also know of at least one person who managed to lie through the polygraph (for the FBI no less). They got ‘revealed’ when the investigator decided to do just one more check, maybe because this one was more thorough, or because of ‘gut’ instinct.

NOTE: True sociopaths can lie through a poly. This is actually a known fact. Lie detectors don’t detect lies, but they detect the hidden guilt in lying and concealing as well as the fear in potentially getting caught.

Sociopaths->no soul, ends(results) justify the means and the only justifiable ends are the results they want.

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