Look out for that Oscar-worthy performance of Jeff Goldblum as sickly nutrion-enthusiast! Just like Leto in Dallas Buyer's Club, you could smell the AIDS by simply looking at him. Award season's close, man! Fingers crossed!

Thanks, and thanks for the points too!
Not the best of birthdays for me....my dog paralyzed herself somehow on Tuesday morning about 4am (no idea how), and I've been on constant dog watch since we got back from the vet, keeping her from moving and feeding her by hand. Happy birthday to me, huh. At least she had slight improvement this morning, she peed for the first time in 3 days. I'll probably be scarce on the sift for a bit while I watch her 24/7. There's still hope she'll recuperate...fingers crossed.

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This is important information about the destruction of our election processes.
Far from 'transparent and upfront', this is one more example of a single candidate misusing their power to attempt to secretly sway the pre-election in their favor, and a clear indication that SOME believe in an 'ends justify the means' type of administration.
Scary to think of what might happen if they run the country in this same manner.

EDIT: Doing the numbers, if you take out the super delegates, or assume they'll mirror the voters as they normally do, Sanders only needs 56% of the remaining vote/delegates to win, and that's a likelihood at this point. Fingers crossed, knock on wood, may we all be touched by his noodley appendage.

Seems like Alice in Wonderland meets X-Men. Looks Awesome. Fingers crossed.

I don't, but I have my fingers crossed and I do hold onto a shred of hope.
True that about Paul...but Ron's ideas were a little farther out there.
It was the same in that their parties didn't support them in the least, and the media only ridiculed(s) them.

*quality production. fingers crossed to get selected for level 3

Probably a good plan.
We're worried this new, overproduced version is all we get anymore. Fingers crossed that the old Colbert comes back once he's comfortable on network TV.

You're so welcome! I loved it. I'm sorry that my waking hours aren't more conducive to sift views ... fingers crossed

What part of "do not have a choice" do I not understand? How about the subject of the 'choice' you are denied. Now that you have clarified that you don't have a choice about how the electric company pays you, or how solar works, I'll reiterate, you still DO have a choice about how to use the power you generate. Making better use of that choice would serve you well, but you seem intent on claiming it's all out of your control (and that you're forced 'at gunpoint' to sell all your production cheap and buy it back expensive rather than find a way to use it directly). I'm intent on making the best use of the choices available to me (and I bet to you) in order to make intelligent choices about my energy, choices that have saved me thousands to date, and should save me tens of thousands in the long run, and save uncounted tons of CO2 from being produced. You have instead invested in a system that now serves your needs terribly, and now want to tell others how solar is not economically viable or green, both of which are absolutely backwards from my experience and research.

You were not kidnapped, you walked into that guys home and put his gun to your own head. I wonder if you've even investigated 'net metering' in your area, it could make your system work for even you.

OK, so energy cost VS energy produced is ALL you want to compare. Then you MUST include all energy costs to be reasonable, including the energy cost of cleanup of coal waste failures (that right there already totally tips any scale against coal, it can't come close to making the energy that cleanup takes), the energy used in upkeep of coal waste storage for centuries, the energy costs of habitat destruction/reconstruction by coal mining itself, the mining itself, transportation of the coal, power plant operation (construction, upgrading, and maintenance), and the cost of mitigating the 20-40 times the amount of CO2 pollution, health issues, loss of sunlight (solar dimming is real), etc. The list of energy costs goes on and on for coal, while the list for the energy cost of solar panel production and use in some cases is damn near zero (where it's made with leftover chip wafers in solar powered factories it barely takes any extra energy at all, but I do understand that most aren't made that way now).

Double return VS coal, because you get twice as many KWH per dollar with solar PV, or better.

Again with the 'spend more energy to produce one KWH of PV than with coal', show me some data. Everything I can find shows you're 100% wrong if you look at the lifespan of panels which become energy neutral in well under 3 years on average (some much sooner) and last 20-30 years, while coal continues to need more energy to produce more (filthy) energy. Perhaps in the extremely short term you have a point about cost/production, but any time period over 3 years puts PV ahead of coal in energy costs/energy produced, and in their 20-30 year lifetime they do much better.

Coal made power is NOT cheaper than solar made power. If it was, I would not save money with a solar system. I have already saved money with solar VS buying the same amount of coal produced power, therefore solar PV is cheaper than coal. Period. If it wasn't, our electric companies would not be 'farming solar' here as fast as possible, they would be building more coal plants.

Some people support coal because they have been misinformed about alternatives. That's why I have continued our discussion here, because your information is wrong based on my personal experience and research, and I fear you might convince someone to not even look into solar enough to see how wrong you are, how much money they could save (if they do it properly), and how much pollution they could not create.

Um...I DO grow my own vegetables in my backyard too. It's cheaper, and I get far better produce with zero carbon footprint. Another statement you've made that I take personal exception with. It's not a HUGE effort, but is some effort, but the returns are great and totally worth it. I think many people stopped subsistence farming because they're lazy, overworked, and/or live without any place to farm. I've been doing it since I was 12 and ate my first self grown corn, and I've never had reason to question that decision. I've read about people spending $50 to grow $5 in tomatoes...I'm not one of them. I spend $50 on manure to grow >$1000 in produce yearly, and have enough to give >1/2 of it away.

Not a single one of your examples are 'more viable' than PV in every situation, and private owned home solar doesn't take public dollars away from public power projects. I looked into wind-it's way more expensive for the same generation power along with numerous other issues, nuke-also far more expensive with other long term major issues, solar thermal-hardly working as hoped yet in the few, hyper expensive plants in existence, wave-not yet but fingers crossed, hydro-DISTEROUS for the environment and short lived. (You left out geothermal, which is excellent where it's possible.)
Also, most of your examples are not viable for residential use (what we're talking about here), as you said are more expensive (so are bad economic choices), and/or have other serious ecological issues that PV does not.

Money is the only reason to stick with coal or nuclear, and that's only because the companies that use it get away with not paying for most of the true long term costs, and even with that it's now FAR more expensive to buy that coal/nuke power than it is to make your own with PV, leaving NO real reason to stick with coal or nuclear....so what are you talking about?

I'm still holding my fingers crossed for a porno where people in Teletubby costumes fuck. Not for arousal, for general amusement.

I'm changing from Windows XP to Windows 7 this month. I fear change but my nephew goes back to Berkeley soon so figured i best bite the bullet and trust he can do it. Fingers crossed.

I wonder what was wrong with that bear. It was obviously having trouble before they got there to be 'sleeping' out in the open like that. That's not normal bear behavior.
I wonder if they (the state/rangers) did an autopsy.
I've never seen anything like that in nature.
This makes me really sad, and a bit worried that we might start hearing about BCD (Bear Collapse Disorder-related to CCD in bees). I know up here in N California, we have a serious issue with very low water in our rivers causing warm water, which allows toxic algae to bloom, devastating our salmon (and other river fish) population. I have no idea if that's happening in Alaska too.
I wonder if this is related, either from eating tainted fish or drinking the water. It can kill healthy, well fed dogs within minutes of drinking it, so I'm curious what it's doing to the struggling wildlife that has no other source of water. I've not heard or seen any studies on that.
That's likely just one more part of the disaster that is the California drought. Fingers crossed we get some good rain this winter, if not things here are going to get a bit Thunderdome-y.

Thanks kulpins. See if this link from hulu works better [fingers crossed] http://videosift.com/video/SNL-Blazer-1

Elections in Greece will be held on Sunday. If Syriza prevails, we might get some movement after all. Fingers crossed. All those politicians clinging on to this perverse notion of moral supremacy, particularly in Germany, are going to have a stroke when Greece starts ignoring the Troika's non-negotiable commandmends.

Its sheer entertainment value will put Hollywood to shame.

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I'm disappointed that I can't see on the site if ANY of their candidates won, or even did well in the 2014 election, so I can't see what their plan is going forward. Fingers crossed hoping they did well.