mason240

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by mason240 10y ago
Seems appropriate for an agency dealing with exotic animal smuggling.
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by mason240 10y ago
It's troubling that this has to actually be explained.
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by mason240 10y ago
>he only relevant fact here is that millions more people voted against Trump than for him. No. We did not have a popular vote.
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by mason240 10y ago
Thanks for posting the links so that everyone can see the ridiculous hyperbole that your arguments are based on.
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by mason240 10y ago
I'm down-voting you, here's why: Context is a thing, and you even make use of it in your comment. You have set up a false scenario where (according to you) we are only allowed discuss what is explicit in headline, yet "altern
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by mason240 10y ago
Manning had no knowledge of the video. It happened to be in the blind data dump.
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by mason240 10y ago
There is a great podcast you might like on the subject: The History of English Podcast https://history-podcasts.com/history-of-english-language-pod...
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by mason240 10y ago
Seems like all you would need is to build a coal-powered desalination/water splitting/salt splitting plant. /s
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by mason240 10y ago
We are really going to pretend that he and his supporters didn't credit for it?
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by mason240 10y ago
>In 1929 John Maynard Keynes predicted that by 2029 people in the developed nations could enjoy a perfectly civilised standard of living while working for 16 hours a week. This is true today if you wanted to live at the same standard of
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by mason240 10y ago
I agree. I preferred working 4x10 or even 4x12 before having kids (while working flexible resturant shift work). Now that I have kids and work an office job, I would much prefer a 5x6 to a 4x8.
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by mason240 10y ago
Couldn't you just put all the water onto converted oil tankers and bring it right to cities like San Diego or LA?
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by mason240 10y ago
The scenarios are the same. Gas explosion: house destroyed, possessions gone, death if I am home, move to a new home. Nuclear incident: house is uninhabitable, possessions gone, possibility of shortened lifespan if I receive excessive radia
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by mason240 10y ago
>100,000 homes within 40 miles is probably on the low side. Homes, not people. 100k would be a very high number.
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by mason240 10y ago
The scenarios are the same. Gas explosion: house destroyed, possessions gone, death if I am home, move to a new home. Nuclear incident: house is uninhabitable, possessions gone, possibility of shortened lifespan if I receive excessive radia
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by mason240 10y ago
Still nuclear. And it would be easier to take the solar advocate more seriously if they weren't also opposed to mining for the very materials they made from.
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by mason240 10y ago
Driving by it to see a novelty is different from living next to an eyesore.
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by mason240 10y ago
Sure, but I live underneath an air traffic corridor. I want to be compensated for the chance that a plane crashes into my house.
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by mason240 10y ago
They are identical scenarios. The only difference is the scale. In both scenarios I am "rolling the dice" on a catastrophic failure in exchange for energy - and if I am home when it happens it will shorten my lifespan significantl
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by mason240 10y ago
>there is a risk you will be forced to move and lose all your possessions. Can you give me a street address for somewhere that this isn't a possibility? My house is heated by natural gas - it could literally explode while I'm a
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by mason240 10y ago
I would prefer to live near a nuclear plant than within sight of a wind farm.
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by mason240 10y ago
But if they are in part this study it doesn't matter.
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by mason240 10y ago
I think $0 cost in this context is near-zero. If my utily bill (electric + NG for heat) went from ~$150/mo to $15, I would think of as practically free.
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by mason240 10y ago
True, but this OP's scenario is very similar to what happened during the ND oil boom in 2010. Guys with certain skills (heavy equipment operation, truck driving, ect) could make two or even three times what where in their current jobs.
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by mason240 10y ago
I wonder if future conventions will have business drones only flying over existing surface streets when possible. Buzzing over the street in my neighborhood is a lot less intrusive than flying directly over my house. Obviously it would be a
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by mason240 10y ago
I'm sure Hillary Clinton would take part in advising him if he asked. I'm not sure where they hypocrisy is. Advising is not agreeing.
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by mason240 10y ago
The flipside of course, is how much extra are you willing to spend to save every preventable death? How much are you you willing spend on someone else's life before it's ok for you to consign their death?
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by mason240 10y ago
It's mostly paper.
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by mason240 10y ago
The military is terrible for this. You are constantly filling out forms that amount to a half page of your basic information, followed by a couple of text fields that form is actually for.
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by mason240 10y ago
>Anecdotally I notice that a lot more younger people seem to be eating healthy and exercising regularly How long has it been since you visited a school? It's very depressing to see how many elementary aged children are 20+ lbs overw

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