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More guns, more gun deaths...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...0913d68eacb_story.html?utm_term=.d81eff150850

In a nation where nearly 4 percent of shootings are unintentional and, in a given week, two children die from accidental shootings, according to gun violence research, what happened to Kimi’s family has occurred at least 25 times since January 2015.

Here's the best part, it may as well be taken from a conversation here:

Her husband tells her she shouldn’t worry. He’s always careful with his guns. What happened at Joel’s won’t happen here. She wants to believe him, even when she saw a pistol in the driver’s side door while they drove home the other day.

“That gun in that door in that truck,” she said to him after they came inside.

“What about it?” he asked.

“If you’re walking up to the truck and you’re looking inside the truck and Jaxon is behind you, what do you do if he grabs that thing?”

“If he’s behind me?”

“You know he follows you all the time,” she said. “You don’t think he can reach past you?”

“Not without me knowing.”
 
espola said:
Solyndra has a unique design that improves the efficiency of solar photovoltaic arrays but that could not overcome the price advantage of Chinese-built arrays, especially in the installed cost. Solyndra's arrays would have to run for years to pay back the difference. Most US businesses are still run on 90-day expectations based on 365-day budgets.
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So Solyndra had a unique product design and a unnique business model?
 
Wez said:
Serious question, hostilities aside, what is it about what I write here, that makes you so mad, despite non-stop belligerence from the likes of Joe and Nono? Do you feel I attack you personally, knowing full well you give to me everything I give to you?
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Bruddah IZ said:
So Solyndra had a unique product design and a unnique business model?
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Unusual material (copper indium gallium selenide, developed at DOE expense to be competitive in cost with the usual crystalline silicon, and with better energy conversion efficiency), unusual structure (hollow cylinders containing rods coated with CIGS instead of large flat panels of silicon) but the usual business model - borrow money and spend it. CIGS lost its cost/efficiency advantage when the Chinese government financed new silicon production factories, dropping the cost of raw silicon by 90% in China, resulting in more than 50% drop in finished assemblies on the world market.
 
espola said:
Unusual material (copper indium gallium selenide, developed at DOE expense to be competitive in cost with the usual crystalline silicon, and with better energy conversion efficiency), unusual structure (hollow cylinders containing rods coated with CIGS instead of large flat panels of silicon) but the usual business model - borrow money and spend it. CIGS lost its cost/efficiency advantage when the Chinese government financed new silicon production factories, dropping the cost of raw silicon by 90% in China, resulting in more than 50% drop in finished assemblies on the world market.
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Were the two Chinese government financed silicon production factories meant to churn out more of the large flat panels of silicon? If so, why the sharp drop in the cost of raw silicon? Simple supply and demand would dictate a price increase in raw silicon. I can entertain a 50% drop in cost per unit if labor cost and the Asset Turnover Ratio of those factories are known. Meaning, did management use government $timulus to invest in automation or did they employ a second shift where fixed cost are eliminated, or did they do both?
 
Bruddah IZ said:
Were the two Chinese government financed silicon production factories meant to churn out more of the large flat panels of silicon? If so, why the sharp drop in the cost of raw silicon? Simple supply and demand would dictate a price increase in raw silicon. I can entertain a 50% drop in cost per unit if labor cost and the Asset Turnover Ratio of those factories are known. Meaning, did management use government $timulus to invest in automation or did they employ a second shift where fixed cost are eliminated, or did they do both?
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Do you think the Chinese government cares about your pathetic views of economics?
 
On the topic of fake news:

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/12/5/13842258/pizzagate-comet-ping-pong-fake-news

But there’s also a financial interest in fake news. A BuzzFeed investigation found that many of the big fake news stories originated from a tiny Macedonian town known as Veles. There, young Macedonians have embraced “a digital gold rush” by setting up fake news sites and using Facebook as a platform to push their false stories, reaping the advertising dollars that come with the clicks and sharing.

Silverman and Lawrence Alexander wrote for BuzzFeed, “Several teens and young men who run these sites told BuzzFeed News that they learned the best way to generate traffic is to get their politics stories to spread on Facebook — and the best way to generate shares on Facebook is to publish sensationalist and often false content that caters to Trump supporters.”

There’s a reason these websites have a partisan, pro-Trump bent: At least in the 2016 election cycle, fake news took off much more with conservatives than with liberals. Laura Sydell reported at NPR the experience of one fake news purveyor, 40-year-old Jestin Coler in California:

During the run-up to the presidential election, fake news really took off. "It was just anybody with a blog can get on there and find a big, huge Facebook group of kind of rabid Trump supporters just waiting to eat up this red meat that they're about to get served," Coler says. "It caused an explosion in the number of sites. I mean, my gosh, the number of just fake accounts on Facebook exploded during the Trump election."

Coler says his writers have tried to write fake news for liberals — but they just never take the bait.

Why is this the case? Coler suggested that it has to do with Trump and conservative media outlets discrediting mainstream news, pushing conservatives to look for other outlets for their information: “This is a right-wing issue. Sarah Palin's famous blasting of the lamestream media is kind of record and testament to the rise of these kinds of people. The post-fact era is what I would refer to it as. This isn't something that started with Trump. This is something that's been in the works for a while. His whole campaign was this thing of discrediting mainstream media sources, which is one of those dog whistles to his supporters.”
 
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