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10/28/09
He's the fucking king shit elected leader of the whole country! What's his ONE job? It's to be seen in PLACES, doing THINGS. It's to inspire people through a perception of him as a dynamic, energetic figure who can get shit done and then take that shit to the shit bank. So sorry if that requires a jet. Out of everyone in your whole sorry ass country, he's maybe the one person who actually needs it. And you criticize him for jetting around to unveil a new solar plant? On the day he announces a revamp of your whole aging grid in order to save America's frigging electric bacon? When how many thousands of people are getting on a fucking jet in chicago to go visit a fuck buddy in miami for a weekend. Or off to New York to oversee the distribution of 100 000 SUVs that just rolled off the line.
Just take it somewhere else. Your indignation makes you look like a petty fool. This is a WORLD LEADER we're talking about. Give the man a jet. #obama
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"Florida's nickname is the "Sunshine State", but severe weather is a common occurrence in the state. Central Florida is known as the lightning capital of the ..."
So, Florida is still not my first choice for a solar farm.
Now, maybe if they can harness the 1.21 jiggawatts generated by the lightning captital of the US, we'd be cookin'!!! (har)
10/28/09
And in the future, if you want to make yourself sound credible, don't quote wikipedia. #obama
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Apparently no one understands the irony of promoting "green" technology in a non-green fashion.
I never said anywhere that Air Force One should not exist, or that there was no need for it.
Obama could have simply had a press conference from the White House, or hell, put a video on YouTube. Instead, he flew half way across the country, spending hundreds of thousands of our tax dollars, just so he could give a quick speech and pose for photos in front of a solar-field.
Never mind, that our country is in the middle of a financial crisis, and our government should be counting every penny possible. Never mind, that Obama is pushing though cap-and-trade legislation that will cost consumers over $750 billion per year.
If you can't see the hypocrisy here, well, I don't know how else to explain it.
Maybe you "haters" are right though? As someone who got my Undergraduate in Political Science / Economics, and is finishing a Masters in International Affairs, I clearly have no idea what I'm talking about. Oh well. #obama
10/28/09
I think People need to see that the president is behind something 100% Pictures speak louder then words, its not his fault that people are going around distorting his words. But you can't say anything about him standing in front of the thing. seems like the only thing people notice these days.
Also it generates press just by him getting out of the White House. #obama
10/28/09
My issue isn't about politics. It isn't about parties or specific politicians. It's about fiscal responsibility. Unfortunately, Obama don't seem to care that his photo-op jet-setting is costing American tax payers hundreds of thousands, if not millions, per trip - all the while unemployment is at record highs, homelessness is up across the board, foreclosures are increasing every month, etc.
I'm done participating in this giz-thread for today. Cheers. #obama
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A YOUTUBE VIDEO? HE'S THE FUCKING PRESIDENT OF THE GODDAMN UNITED STATES. WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU? #obama
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Seriously, it's not like the Republicans are doing what they're supposed to be doing: cutting government involvement. In fact, Republicans did MORE to get the government all up our asses. That's why even though I'm a conservative, I eschew both parties and vote independently.
Nevertheless, even a conservative, generally anti-gov't person like me can understand that certain industries need government involvement to force efficiency and competition. This is one of them. #obama
10/28/09
Actually, as soon as an industry starts accepting taxpayer dollars, they cease to be in competition.
Imagine what the uproar would be like of Home Depot got subsidy funding while Ace Hardware did not? What word springs to mind? It is certainly NOT competitive. #obama
10/28/09
Case in point: the Internet was created through the government. Highways, telephones, the postal service, and a lot of other inventions and its corresponding industries started off with government support? Why? Because it is unprofitable and too risky for any private company to start investing in such a project - but it doesn't mean we should have never started. The government comes in instead and starts these risky projects; if it the process proves itself to work and a company believes it can do it competitively, then by all means private companies should be allowed to take the reins and compete.
Your example of Home Depot doesn't start with new expensive budding technology, it's a store. This power grid stuff (and solar technology), on the other hand, requires a large amount of risky investment that no one really wants to do but the payoffs are great. I'm really hoping that the government's investment will pay off and that one day, a private company will take over the job, make it profitable, and fix the whole country's energy inefficiency problem. #obama
10/29/09
What part of the grid is expensive budding tech? Even the new stuff?
The reason it is considered expensive is because the return on investment is not realistic. No other reason.
Bridges are expensive, but plenty of privately funded bridges are out there, collecting tolls, and making money.
The Alaska pipeline was very expensive, but was also 100% privately funded. Why? Because the benefits and return on investment were well worth the initial outlay of dollars.
As to the internet, telephones, and postal service, not very good examples. The postal service was a mix of private and publicly run. The internet was created by ARPA because they had the reason to do it, private industry did not. And telephones were always private. #obama
10/28/09
What I'm waiting for is something along the lines of R. Buckminster Fuller's Global Grid. #obama
10/28/09
Oh what's that? Air Force one, alone, consumes 3,378 gallons of jet fuel per hour, dumping 74 tons of CO2 per hour into the atmosphere, costing over $60k per hour!? Wait a minute...
Pfff...What a phony. #obama
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Clearly you missed the point I was trying to make: the irony in flying to this specific place (a "green" energy power plant). Of course the president needs to fly around the country! However, wouldn't it have made more sense to promote "green" technology in a "green" way - perhaps NOT flying out for a speech and photo-op, but instead presenting a web/YouTube speech or something?
Keep at it Pope John Peeps II, you'll get that G.E.D. soon enough! #obama
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I owned you. I owned you right in the face. #obama
10/28/09
I just checked usatoday, msnbc, cnn, chicagotribune, suntimes, nytimes, and only ONE of them had this on their front page (msnbc, buried deep down).
Keep it up Giz. And Jesus, I completely agree with ya. #obama
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Plus why are Americans so knee-jerk against socialism? You have socialist schools, police and fire departments, etc... #obama
10/28/09
Public Schools - Socialism
Police - Socialism
Firefighter - Socialism
Public Library - Socialism
Road System - Socialism
Military - Socialism
10/28/09
Public Schools - Socialism - Too bad our public school system kinda sucks. Clearly were not doing something correctly like say... Finland.
Police - Socialism - Normally the articles we read in Gizmodo show police brutality followed by everyone showing how much they hate law enforcement .. etc etc.
Firefighter - Socialism - I love them!
Public Library - Socialism - Great in 1989, not so much more in 2009. Hi everyone, welcome to Google Books (one day mother fucker... one day)
Road System - Socialism - Where I live in California, the roads suck... hardcore. In the nicer city of Roseville/Rocklin, the roads are so clean and impeccable. WTF?!
Military - Socialism - Isn't the natural and most basic purpose of government to provide protection to the people. This is what people expect right?! Clearly a military run by a corporation would probably lead to battles among other corporations within our own country.
So yeah, Socialism - the idea might work for some things, but it sure as hell won't work for everything. And from all the wonderful examples we have from history and modern society, it can either be very helpful, or be extremely hurtful. #obama
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Not socialism. #obama
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a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole #obama
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But, Mr. President, you standing directly in front of those solar panels means a lightbulb just turned off somewhere...
I keed. #obama
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empty space where substantiation for prior claim should be #obama
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Y'all mad at me, right? Well, there's one thing you better know, and that is..I love, all of y'all. #obama
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::blink::
No clue... But no, I just think that with the increasing population, urban sprawl, and concerns over global warming... The idea of clear cutting forests and placing hectares of heat absorbing black photovoltaic panels may be counterproductive to El Presidente’s Energy Sec. Steven Chu’s assertion that we need to paint the roofs and roads white to offset radiant heat absorption... #obama
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