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A procrastination in of itself
#100076: Sep 7th 2015 at 4:08:08 PM

[up][up][up] Because power decays over distance so it's most effective to use it near the place it is generated, and especially around natural features near the borders the best places to use the power are going to be both sides of the border.

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

“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#100077: Sep 7th 2015 at 4:08:37 PM

[up][up]I know that but why tie US and Canadian grids to each other? The US states have different legislatures but ultimately they still answer to the federal government which is the same for all of them. Canada and the US aren't like that.

edited 7th Sep '15 4:08:48 PM by Kostya

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Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#100079: Sep 7th 2015 at 4:39:11 PM

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

Memers Since: Aug, 2013
#100080: Sep 7th 2015 at 10:47:28 PM

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

TheyCallMeTomu Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#100081: Sep 8th 2015 at 12:08:31 AM

Well gee, maybe if she were GOVERNOR OF THE STATE or something.

AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#100082: Sep 8th 2015 at 12:49:38 AM

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."

Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#100083: Sep 8th 2015 at 1:16:11 AM

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.

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).

Blueeyedrat Since: Oct, 2010
#100084: Sep 8th 2015 at 7:31:54 AM

Fun fact, apparently the Department of Interior is the one that actually handles that sort of thing, so Palin's idea to dismantle the DOE makes even less sense.

shimaspawn from Here and Now Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: In your bunk
#100085: Sep 8th 2015 at 7:36:32 AM

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.

Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick
Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#100086: Sep 8th 2015 at 7:42:18 AM

...charged, herself, as an adult, for exploiting a minor, herself.

Can we shoot the prosecutor? Pretty please?

Memers Since: Aug, 2013
#100087: Sep 8th 2015 at 7:44:07 AM

The law has clearly not kept up with the times and well [up] that too.

Karkadinn Karkadinn from New Orleans, Louisiana Since: Jul, 2009
Karkadinn
#100088: Sep 8th 2015 at 7:47:02 AM

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.
Aszur A nice butterfly from Pagliacci's Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
A nice butterfly
#100089: Sep 8th 2015 at 7:56:14 AM

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 clothes
AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#100090: Sep 8th 2015 at 7:56:21 AM

I am now wondering if minors masturbating count as child abuse.

Inter arma enim silent leges
BAFFU Since: Dec, 2012
#100091: Sep 8th 2015 at 8:05:29 AM

where I am from the age of consent is 14.

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#100092: Sep 8th 2015 at 8:07:16 AM

That seems pretty fucking sketchy.

I'm in favor of the higher age of consent laws, they usually do more good than harm but unfortunately you get bullshit like this every so often.

Oh really when?
BAFFU Since: Dec, 2012
#100093: Sep 8th 2015 at 8:08:59 AM

actually 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

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#100094: Sep 8th 2015 at 8:10:30 AM

That doesn't change the fact that it's real fucking sketchy

Oh really when?
Memers Since: Aug, 2013
#100095: Sep 8th 2015 at 8:11:04 AM

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

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#100096: Sep 8th 2015 at 8:11:38 AM

You could always do something where the age of consent only permits people a few years above a person's age until they reach 18. PA does that and I think it's a pretty good system.

BAFFU Since: Dec, 2012
#100097: Sep 8th 2015 at 8:12:49 AM

[up][up][up]

nah. It works out. Child porn and prostitution and rape are still illigal.

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#100098: Sep 8th 2015 at 8:15:18 AM

That still makes it okay for a thirty year old to have sex with someone half their age.

Aszur A nice butterfly from Pagliacci's Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
A nice butterfly
#100099: Sep 8th 2015 at 8:16:04 AM

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 clothes
BAFFU Since: Dec, 2012
#100100: Sep 8th 2015 at 8:19:23 AM

to go back on topic, this is what Krugman is saying about Donald Trump and Jbe Bush:

Mr. Bush has chosen to attack Mr. Trump as a false conservative, a proposition that is supposedly demonstrated by his deviations from current Republican economic orthodoxy: his willingness to raise taxes on the rich, his positive words about universal health care. And that tells you a lot about the dire state of the G.O.P. For the issues the Bush campaign is using to attack its unexpected nemesis are precisely the issues on which Mr. Trump happens to be right, and the Republican establishment has been proved utterly wrong.


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