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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Because electricity is a fungible product, much like oil.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Regarding Palin and the Energy Department, I should point out that up here, we hate the feds getting involved in our business in energy matters - not just because of federal regulations on what Alaska can do with our land, but because we want to be able to regulate what is done on federal lands in Alaska, such as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and we want control over our own minerals and oil (and over the related revenues).
We're still kiiiinda bitter about how that shook out (the amount of Alaskan land claimed by the federal government is larger than the entirety of New England and the Mid-Atlantic states put together) - to the point where the Alaska Republican Party has actually been rather strongly opposed to drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in the past. (Our current Senators support drilling, though.)
edited 7th Sep '15 4:43:04 PM by Ramidel
Which is completely different for the lower 48. we need the energy department really to manage the massive infrastructure, price gouging, handling of nuclear weapons and material, energy-related research etc.
Disbanding the thing basically will be like banning all refs and gardeners for a football stadium.
Now if she was just talking about Alaska then *shrug*.
edited 7th Sep '15 10:52:16 PM by Memers
There's a significant difference between arguing that Alaskans should get more say in what happens in federal owned lands in Alaska and arguing that the entire department of energy should be shut down and all of it turned over to the states.
Hell, my objection to most of these departments being eliminated boils down to "we have spent well over two hundred years building an interconnected infrastructure because we're one freaking big country and not fifty or more little ones."
One makes a better soundbite. Policy discussions don't sell books.
But yeah, just saying where that idea is coming from (aside from her ass, of course).
A 16 year old girl is being charged as an adult with exploitation of a minor (herself) for taking a nude selfie.
She took the selfie for her boyfriend of the same age whom she is of the age of consent to sleep with.
The natural conclusion of the pedohunt. The really tragic thing is that this isn't even a one-off thing, nonsense like this happens all the time, clogging up courts and ruining lives, purely because people can't stand the idea of teenagers having sex drives like healthy human beings.
Furthermore, I think Guantanamo must be destroyed.You guys just don't get it. She sent a naked selfie of herself. That is not romance. That is lust. For it to be romance at least 3 other people must have died and both her and him should have commited suicide.
Then it would have been accepted.
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothesactually almost all countries in the world have an age of consent lower than 16. Including Europe and Japan.
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edited 8th Sep '15 8:09:18 AM by BAFFU
In many places the age of consent is much lower if the ages of the pair are roughly equal. Having private pictures like that between the two shouldn't be anything to talk about really, the only way would be if there was an intent or attempt to distribute past the pair.
The being charged as an adult thing is seriously sketchy.
edited 8th Sep '15 8:14:02 AM by Memers
What's really fucked up on this is that law would only regulate things but not solve the problem from repeating itself.
But god forbid you try to get proper Sex Ed on the U.S.
edited 8th Sep '15 8:16:13 AM by Aszur
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothesto go back on topic, this is what Krugman is saying about Donald Trump and Jbe Bush:

edited 7th Sep '15 4:08:38 PM by Silasw
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