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  1. Maybe the DNC is pied pipering Biden like they did Trump?
  2. Welp, lots of money to be made on Beto if you still believe(less chance than Hillary at this point). Edit: Selling that .11 for Yang seems like easy money.
  3. https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C2CHBD_enUS773US774&source=hp&ei=RF5pXev2Ds7s_QajiKjYCA&q=cows+as+a+percentage+of+worldwide+methane&oq=cows+as+a+percentage+of+worldwide+met&gs_l=psy-ab.1.0.33i22i29i30l2.1022.9483..12322...0.0..1.319.5329.1j34j1j1......0....1..gws-wiz.......0i324j0i131j0j0i3j0i22i30j0i22i10i30j33i299j33i160.JDyUFAvHmgA How do we get India, Brazil, China, to join us in our animal destruction/binge eating to save the planet(right now)?
  4. http://www.worldstopexports.com/united-kingdoms-top-10-imports/ Where is the pain that can't be replicated elsewhere, till the butthurt is gone?
  5. https://m.phys.org/news/2019-01-scientists-breathalyze-cows-methane-emissions.html Concern about 25% of manmade global warming is dumb? Or no big deal? I had not realized till today that cows were producing that much, or having that much effect. Seems like an easy solution to start cutting down the cow population, and a tasty solution btw, to bring that 25% percentage down(wrt cows as a percentage of the 25% total).
  6. looks like there has been a significant increase in cows worldwide since 1960: 34% increase from 1960 to 2017. https://beef2live.com/story-world-cattle-inventory-1960-2014-130-111523
  7. so is the CA law referenced in the cnbc link something you favor and would like to see expanded to all cow producing areas or not a thing because it is not new carbon, while still having potentially short term effects for the local areas? Or possibly local methane production is not a concern, only totals in the aggregate of cow burping worldwide? Do we need to stop composting as well due to methane production(being then broken down into CO2), logical extension of the last couple sentences of your burp/fart link? Maybe a tax/fee/penalty/jail on composting, settling ponds, lagoons, and manure processors is in order to reduce that behavior? /s
  8. So does it explain cow farts or human farts as well? Is that new carbon in the methane or part of your 0% of global increase reference? So no tax to be considered then, on cow or human farts?(inputting the expanse of humanity that farts from kimchi, and other veggie eaters where the big populations are in the East, Far East) https://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/17/dairy-farmers-in-california-say-anti-flatulence-law-stinks.html etc: https://www.google.com/search?q=tax+on+cow+methane&rlz=1C1CHBD_enUS773US773&oq=tax+on+cow+methane&aqs=chrome..69i57.6350j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
  9. IIRC, they have to only charge you for x amount if they are able to re-let the place. ask them about their vacancy rate for units like yours. Check this out: https://www.texastenant.org/termination.html Maybe something to consider but maybe not, might depend on the wording in the lease you signed.
  10. zork

    Economy Thread

    Looks like the Fed is changing directions according to this: QE ramping down in 2015, steady till late 2017, then yuge QT till this last month. QE starting again? The source for this graph was a blog that was reblogged on ZeroHedge, so there is that. https://econimica.blogspot.com/2019/08/for-second-week-in-row-fed-buys.html Another cool graph for perspective:
  11. Who will the Dems run against him?
  12. So you predict mass pain for the Brits after Brexit? Disagreement is not stupidity necessarily. It is seemingly more clear than in a long time that Brexit is going to happen. Just because you think that sucks is just your opinion. I'm a UT grad so I won't be logging on to texaggy. I do read it for entertainment purposes, mainly schadenfreude when they are losing. I've been on Texas websites since about 1996-97, get off my lawn, clinteastwood.gif .
  13. Not necessarily long term. There will be changes due to Brexit and possibly short term supply chain breakdowns on certain items till it is worked out. Some will find other sources and I'm suggesting normalcy among trading partners will resume on most of it in the long haul. There is also mention of paying more for any of the goods that would have been coming from the EU due to the obvious shipping distances. "Guarantee" at full price if available and with the extra shipping charges in place. My views on Brexit are largely that: the UK was giving more than they were getting, the PIIGS are going to continue to be a financial burden that has so far just kicked the can further down the road and will be a terror when the global economy tanks, the people got the chance to vote and decided to get out. They are going to finally follow through this fall, apparently I'm a lay person who tangentially follows Brexit/UK/EU issues when it comes up It wasn't clear till just recently that it was really going to happen,in my lay opinion, with May botching every step of the way. Now it seems pretty clear. (I haven't looked but I would think the Brexit gambling lines have shifted in the last couple months more towards Brexit eventuality than not)
  14. So supporting the UK is shitting on the EU? WTF? Macron and Trump seem to be getting along well enough. I never mentioned sweetheart deals, learn to read. The EU minus UK will still be natural trading partners for each other once the Brexit emotions eventuality cool off. It is just good business. The US should fill the void if either want to be titty babies to the other on items that the US can fulfill. That is a reasonable outlook on the eventuality that will more than likely occur. Brexit is happening. That is not my decision but what seems to be the leading eventuality as the Queen herself just royally stamped by supporting the Parliament suspension.(no judgement, just facts) Fuck off with the white nationalist garbage as well.
  15. Nope, according to the Surly braintrust above their money is ethno racist and not wanted here. Idiots. It isn't helping them only, it is selling them our goods. The natural flow of trade with the EU will come back when their panties are un-wadded. I estimated +/- 6 months and likely less unless there is an edict that says no trade with UK. In that case the US gets a bigger better deal for longer. What I believe will have zero effect on Brexit. It is going to happen, we might just as well take advantage of the butt-hurt EU response. The UK has been a great ally. Brexit doesn't change that in my opinion.
  16. I'm not talking about giving anything away. Just saying we should help facilitate them having access to whatever the US produces at market prices to the UK.(plus shipping as I alluded to in my post) That lone act, even if purely symbolic in nature, will cause the EU to capitulate because they don't want to lose access to the UK market. If the EU is stupid then the US products get more market share. Win/win for USA/UK. Trump is the US, the paper towels are the symbolic act or actual goods imported and paid for by the UK, the people receiving the paper towels(goods) are the UK: What does the EU sell that can't be bought equivalently, more or less, from the US?(Mercedes?)
  17. superfetch was one that I stopped from loading. there was another with index or indexer in the name. https://www.google.com/search?q=100+disk+usage+windows+10&rlz=1C1CHBD_enUS773US773&oq=100%+disk+&aqs=chrome.2.69i57j0l5.18808j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
  18. there are indexer programs that seem to be big hogs. if you can figure out which process is hogging the resources you can get them to stop loading on start up. run the task manager by c-a-d, then sort by disk usage. if you make it small enough you can watch the big offenders while you do your surfing, then search what the process is in googles. i don't recall what i had to turn off a few months ago with similar disk resource hogging attributes.
  19. The US should step up and guarantee as much trade to the UK as is needed to get them through their coming Brexit. Sure there will be a few short term shortages. What can't the US provide, albeit at a price higher due to distance of delivery, etc? The EU will talk big and then capitulate when it is done +/- 6 months back to normalized trade with the UK. There will be some disjointed financial job scenarios but evolve they will. The fact the EU wants a big, essentially welfare, payment from the UK means to me it is a winning deal for the UK to rid themselves of the PIIGS as the world economy potentially slows down. ( PIIGS defined) can'twait.gif for Brexit.
  20. Had this installed on an exterior wall of a 1800 sq ft townhome 3/3 we lived in while working on another house we live in now. The townhome is a rental. Installed in 2011 and still going strong. No exhaust issues since it is external to the dwelling. Rheem RTG-95XN Tankless Outdoor Natural Gas Water Heater The newer version is this I think(bought it from these guys as well): https://www.homeperfect.com/rheem-rtg-95xln-9-5-gpm-outdoor-tankless-low-nox-water-heater-for-3-bathroom-homes.html We drip the lines closest to it, on those few days in DFW that are sub 32 degrees, so water flows even in freezing weather. We have Pex water lines all on that exterior wall. That was easy to do when we installed it because that wall was gutted. There are foam covers for the lines but otherwise it has worked fine. Electric tankless work fine but are the least efficient in terms of energy use or that was the case back in 2011. Sometimes you pay more to have the small ones under the sink at the furthest point and they are electric, still way inefficient, but you don't wait for hot water. Another house we have was an attic water heater replacement, nogo on the tankless due to the expense of rerouting larger gas pipe, more exhaust needs, etc. So we just went back with a 50gal NG model and the plumber added a better drip pan to bring it up to code.
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