SergeantMatt

Nope. Not even close. Our obscenity regulations are extremely dilute.

Yeah, no you're not understanding me. Let me be more explicit. I looked up your laws before you posted it. Those limits mean you don't have freedom of speech.

Whyyyyyy are your laws like this?

Yeah my point is you guys effectively have no right to free speech.

I think the idea of still having a monarch, just some person who came out of the right uterus, as your head of state when it's been demonstrated that republics work fine is so absurd that it's almost comical. Baffling that the states where the monarchs have been reduced to figureheads won't finish the job. At least catch up with America circa 1776.

The new Stellaris DLC + patch are fantastic. War has been overhauled and is now based around claims and war exhaustion so you can actually wage limited wars for a few systems instead of every war being a 20 year war of annihilation. FTL is now hyperdrive only so there's an actual sense of galactic terrain instead of warp and wormhole empires ignoring everything, static defenses are now actually useful, especially once you unlock FTL inhibitors. Fleets now have size caps that expand with tech so the optimal strategy is not doomstacks, and ships now have a chance of escaping battle when damaged enough so it's not a guaranteed stackwipe when you lose.
 
Oh and you can blow up planets now.

Can you even imagine if they ran Hillary again.

Can you even imagine if they ran Hillary again.

I think he mis-understood the job and thought he would have a lot more freedom and power than he does.  It's pretty obvious that he really has a poor understanding of how legislation is crafted and passed, how congress and the courts work.  His main priority seems to be watching ungodly amounts of cable news, making sure his name gets mentioned a lot.

I honestly don't think that if Trump makes it through his current term that he will want to run again.  All evidence points seems to point to the fact that he really does not like the job nor is he interested in it.  He only likes the attention and notoriety it brings him.  Also, the man is not young.  I think in 2020 he declares America great again and retires to play golf and eat fish fillets sandwiches sans the bun.

I'm rooting for the chaos of the war to cause the Saoshyant to emerge, lead a Zoroastrian Revolution, and restore the Sasanian Empire.

I'm rooting for the chaos of the war to cause the Saoshyant to emerge, lead a Zoroastrian Revolution, and restore the Sasanian Empire.

He had a very successful podcast with Dick Masterson, The Biggest Problem in the Universe, and threw it all away because Dick went home with an ex-girlfriend of his. Now Dick's new podcast is kicking the living shit out of Maddox's shitty new one.

Isn't that pretty close to the makeup of the general public?
 
http://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx
 
Gallup has 31% of Americans being Democrats, 24% Republican, 42% Independent.
 
Dems and Dem-leaning independents just don't bother actually, you know, voting.

Actually, tearing up the 4th amendment and wasting over a trillion dollars on Operation Useless Dirt was a reasonable response to some brown people flying a plane into a building.

I am one of the resident die hard unrepentant leftists on the board. I'm not even a Yankee.   I'm from Canada, and will argue for universal healthcare and I think Shillary is a moderate Republican.
 
I want my 5 minutes back after reading that. Talk about a total lack of comprehension of the Korean conflict.
 

The writing is also atrocious, as expected from a Bethesda game. Some benevolent billionaire needs to buy the rights to Fallout from Bethesda and return them to Obsidian, where they belong.

#LincolnChafeeWouldHaveWon

Yep, the left wing also got completely purged from the rules committee that will be setting rules for the next primary. Meanwhile Donna Brazile, who abused her position to give Hillary the debate questions ahead of one of the primary debates, has a seat on that committee.
 
Needless to say the left base is in an uproar.

Yep, the left wing also got completely purged from the rules committee that will be setting rules for the next primary. Meanwhile Donna Brazile, who abused her position to give Hillary the debate questions ahead of one of the primary debates, has a seat on that committee.
 
Needless to say the left base is in an uproar.

In my ideal world, we would use nuclear for base load, with the rest made up by other stuff, depending on what's economic in a certain area. Wind and solar could maybe be part of that second bit (my gut tells me few places without some sort of government subsidy), but you'll need something else for when those aren't working. I really like geothermal energy (renewable, not dependent on weather/time of day, doesn't have any catastrophic failure modes that I'm aware of), but like wind and solar it's limited in geographical effectiveness.
 
The best answer at the moment for variable loading is probably clean natural gas. Or build enough nuke plants to provide well over base load and use excess power to pump water uphill for use when needed (but now we're back to the issues with hydro like Don mentioned).
 
Coal is trash and should not be used. Even disregarding the implications for climate change (which I believe is real), shitting particulates into the air is bad.

This is the other thing I don't understand about the debate.  Adams talks about the cost of fighting climate change.  What is the downside again?  Fossil fuels are non-renewable, they are not going to last forever.  Developing renewable sources of energy not only helps with the carbon issue, it's going to have to happen eventually anyway as fossil fuels become scarce.  Might as well get out ahead of the curve on this.  

I challenge the idea that consensus scientific opinion is wrong "much of the time."  Yes, if you cherry pick a few examples, typically of stuff that is outside the "hard sciences", then you can make that claim.  Look at the examples he uses to say that we should be skeptical of scientific experts: nutrition, fitness, psychology, finance, medical.  Notice how none of these are fields that deal with natural phenomena?  Hell, finance and economics are as much a pseudo-science as anything else.  And his complaint about "medical" is that he was personally mis-diagnosed.  That does not invalidate the corpus of knowledge that makes up Western medicine.  His logic is not much different from that of an anti-vaccine advocate.
 
 
I think a better comparison for the current climate debate is the tobacco debate.  Scientists agreed for years (going back to at least the 1940's) that smoking is bad for people.  And it's obvious really, putting smoke into human lungs is not good for them.  Just like releasing carbon that was slowly stored away for millions of years back into the atmosphere in 100 years is obviously going to fuck shit up.  Anyhow, the smoking debate essentially came down to science on one hand and a huge, influential industry on the other side.  Any positive action to reduce smoking and save lives was delayed for decades due to the tobacco industries power and influence.  I think that's a pretty good historical analogy for the current climate change debate.   

Oh fer Christ's sake, stick to cartoon Mr. Adams.  
 
What the hell sort of reasoning is this:
 
"I’ll summarize by reminding readers that I am not a scientist and I don’t have the tools to evaluate the credibility of climate scientists. If you think you do have that ability as a non-scientist, my guess is that you are younger than me or you have less experience of the type I described above."
 
Basically he is saying he does not have the skills to understand climate science, yet somehow his other life skills make him smarter than those that are willing to accept the findings of 99% of the scientific community.  
 
 

Dunno if it's still the case, but Dassault Systems used to supply our water.....Supplying water in England, talk about money for old rope. 
 
This sums up the British perspective on the US 'health system' pretty well:
 
 
Unless you've lived under a comprehensive cradle to grave healthcare system I'd imagine it's somewhat hard to comprehend just what a bloody marvellous thing it is.....If however you were born into such a system, the alternative appears utterly incomprehensible, borderline third-world even.