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you say that like 'better than Obama' means 'good'.

don't you just hate it when you have a typo while calling an idiot an idiot?

so it's a bad sign when after having had my annual physical, the doctor sits me down and hands me a joint?

it makes you forget about going to the hospital.

mass storage of electricity does appear to be the only currently viable method of integrating solar energy into the power grid at this point in time, the key point being 'at this time'. I'm not an advocate for pushing solar energy in terms of making it a mandatory portion of the power grid, but I do see the potential for it's use in the future. I disagree whole-heartedly with you with regard to technology only having it's major jumps in development in it's early stages. everywhere you look are things we use everyday that would appear to be magical devices to those that knew the same technology when it was new. I work in telecom, and I can only imagine what AG Bell would say if he could see the mass amounts of raw data moving at light speed through the network. compare your smartphone with eniac or univac, for example. and you absolutely can get smaller than an atom. remember that this thread is based in discussion of solar energy, which is the collection of photons (sub atomic particles emitted from certain atoms when stimulated by electrons, which are also subatomic particles) for the conversion of light energy into thermal energy or electrical energy. I have to admit that I largely agree with all of this, but I still maintain a healthy skepticism regarding the development of practical solar energy any time soon.

like I said, you've got nothing. prove me wrong and answer my questions, or just clock out and go home.

count me in. I love this show. I was in Ireland and missed the last two episodes, but I have them on DVR and will get caught up on them tomorrow night.

indeed.

try again. just answer me. how was I projecting? what did I say that is BS? how can you have the gall to make any such accusations when it makes you a complete hypocrite in doing so? have some b@lls for once and directly address the questions, and stop hiding behind name-calling. nothing that I said was a slam against Obama....it was a criticism of the op-ed. I even gave a large measure of the blame for Carter's horrific numbers to his two predecessors. I'll go even further and give Carter credit for accepting most of the blame instead of trying to hang it all on Nixon & Ford. I know you won't address my questions though. you can't. you have nothing, so all you offer are insults. that's all you have. it's all you've ever had. prove me wrong or just go away.

with technology as it is today, I tend to agree. that doesn't mean that it holds no use or won't be developed further in the future.

it depends on how the technology is applied. people in Austin are starting to use solar panels, but they way it's done here is that that part of the electricity is used by the household and part is used to support the city power supply. individual homes still have to pay for the electricity - having the panels doesn't give them independence from municipal power bills, it just helps to reduce them while providing extra power for the utility to sell. as a still-emerging technology solar has a lot of potential, but for what most people want when they think of electricity for their homes, it's still not there yet.

I don't know why he chose to use the names, but as I understand it emperor Hadrian renamed the region Syria Palestina after driving out the Jews. I could be wrong though.

it was done tastefully, but subtle? flying through the wall in an embrace and referring to themselves as a couple? that's not what I'd call subtle.

Birddog in French? good lord.....

tell me where it's BS, tell me how I'm projecting, and tell me how you have the audacity to call me or anyone else a fool without realizing what a pathetic hypocrite you are in doing so. you're worse than I was during the 80's. wake up or shut up.

well, I did watch it. if it has anything to do with a homosexual agenda on their part, my guess would be that they're attempting to shield themselves from possible future anti-gay lawsuits. not a bad idea in today's climate.

I was just in both the Republic of Ireland (EU) and Northern Ireland (UK) and it's THE story dominating the news. from what I could gather, it's pretty much just Scotland wanting to have more direct influence on their own concerns. they're treated the same as Northern Ireland and Wales are, which looked to me to be 'hey, you're just as much a member of the kingdom as anyone else, but you're still not England'. the UK has made some recent offers to the Scots which are much in line with their current demands, and in doing so have taken away a lot of the incentive for Scotland's withdrawal. beyond all that, all I learned about it is that it's the most polite attempt at succession that I've ever seen (protesters against independence for Scotland carrying posters that say 'no thanks'). if you two pooled your resources you might be able to afford better writers instead of relying on rubber-stamp replies and low-grade cynicism.

I don't know how old most people are around here, but having lived through the Reagan years as an adult and suffered all the economic fallout from the Nixon/Ford/Carter years, I can tell you that Reagan had much more to overcome than Obama ever had to face in terms of a suffering economy. that opinion piece is nothing more than cherry picked numbers designed to do little more than offer empty talking points to Obama supporters while simultaneously attempting to tweak the nose of anyone who misses leadership like we had under Reagan. during Carter's term in office we had double-digit inflation, double-digit unemployment, and double-digit interest rates, which to be fair to Carter, were also due to many of Nixon's policies. and in the interest of full disclosure, I was a Carter supporter back in those days, and I loathed Reagan during his entire presidency. it wasn't until I had the benefit of hindsight and decided to be honest with myself that I stopped acting like a moron and began to give credit where is was due. there is plenty worth criticizing with every POTUS we've ever had, but that op ed cited in the OP doesn't offer anything substantial, or even actual, other than more contrived BS for leftist mudslingers. edit - one POTUS that may have actually done absolutely nothing to negatively impact economic policy was William Henry Harrison, who died several weeks after assuming office from pneumonia due to his insistence on giving his inaugural address in a sleet storm,

I said that we allow ourselves to be drawn-in to the trolling, but thanks for the input.

this combination of words has absolutely no business being uttered by a complete buffoon such as yourself. what gall you have. why indeed....you never listen to anyone anyway. all you do is make noise. empty, utterly vacuous noise. why indeed. we all let ourselves be drawn in by the troll. we have better things to do. that's an understatement if ever there was one.

well, at least you're not trolling or anything.

it's absolutely necessary. except in rare cases, training and education are the foundation upon which new ideas and discoveries are built. I'm sure you're aware of the difference between 'book smarts' and 'street smarts', the former being education & academia, the latter being intuition and 'real world' experience. nobody here is saying that education isn't important or valid. the argument is that it takes more than a degree and an Ivy League professorship to be a true expert in something, because the education itself is only part of the equation.

thanks for the link. I'll make it a point to watch it. it looks like it may be interesting because I've never watched a drama based on Einstein. I'm already familiar with the method in which General Relativity and the bending of light by the sun's gravitational field was borne out by that experiment. I think that I may not have made myself clear. I'm not saying that Einstein was not an academic, but that a significant portion of his education was done on his own, outside the realm of conventional academia. he very well may not have had such an innovative or original way of looking at things had he stuck purely with convention. it was his ambition to answer his own questions, not accumulated classroom time, that led him to prove that Newtonian physics was incomplete. in fact, it was academia that adopted HIS way of thinking, not the other way around. channeling Gator, are we?