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Disney is already retrofitting their existing parks with tons of SW stuff.
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Evil Fluffy posted:Disney has already made back the money they spent on Star Wars IIRC. they are eventually. as well as a marvel park. i thought they have handled star wars and marvel pretty well.
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Disney Death Star must have a giant laser that points at a random guest every hour else it's a complete failure.
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 00:06 |
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Visceral Realism posted:If i remember correctly, the stimulus was really good for solar. Either that chart is reflecting actual market costs, so reflecting all the rebates and tax breaks and grants going towards the projects, or it's just reflecting that those incentives helped push money into R&D. Oh, that makes a ton of sense, thanks.
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 00:06 |
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Mr Interweb posted:So I was reading an article that mentioned how the new spending bill extended solar and wind tax credits, which is good. However, it also said that solar penetration in the U.S. is less than half a loving percent?! How the hell is it so low? Haven't we had solar for decades now? The US produces assloads of energy. That 0.4% of total US electricity production is still 16.37 billion kilowatthours. And wind is far more popular and productive. Here's what the whole picture is: Coal = 39% Natural gas = 27% Nuclear = 19% Hydropower = 6% Other renewables = 7% {Biomass = 1.7% Geothermal = 0.4% Solar = 0.4% Wind = 4.4%} Petroleum = 1% Other gases < 1% The total is 4 trillion kilowatthours of production for 2014. fishmech fucked around with this message at 00:10 on Dec 19, 2015 |
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theblackw0lf posted:If the Clinton campaign was smart they'd ask the DNC to reinstate VAN access to the Sanders campaign. As far as IT policy goes, the Bernie campaign does have a beef with what I'm reading in that suit. The breach's responsabilities lies with the DNC, not the Bernie campaign. If information of confidential nature was leaked but software bugs from the DNC they should be held liable. If a bug in facebook suddenly revealed everyones PM's for 4 hours then shut it off, it's not my fault for looking it's Facebooks fault for letting a bug like that into the wild, they control the data, not me. This is a chance for the Bernie campaign to make a clear technical argument about IT policy and it's uses in Gov. and the ways it can very easily be abused. HRC should be just as pissed at the DNC for f***ing it up, joining in with another lawsuit. If her campaign isn't I would start to be very suspect of where the bug came from. BlueBlazer fucked around with this message at 00:11 on Dec 19, 2015 |
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fishmech posted:The US produces assloads of energy. That 0.4% of total US electricity production is still 16.37 billion kilowatthours. And wind is far more popular and productive. That's a lot of loving radioactivity and mercury shoved into a fire.
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 00:08 |
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BlueBlazer posted:As far as IT policy goes, the Bernie campaign does have a beef with what I'm reading in that suit. The Sanders campaign did not receive the Clinton data from a bug. The Sanders campaign staffers (4) actively exploited a bug to improperly access and save proprietary Clinton voter data for 40 minutes. In addition one staffer attempted to hide two folders of Clinton data. Also the lawsuit is strictly about the punishment and really has nothing to do with admittance of guilt (which they have via firing).
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 00:08 |
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Mitt Romney posted:The Sanders campaign did not receive the Clinton data from a bug. And then the Sanders campaign told the Clinton campaign what its staffers did, and fired them. Meanwhile you're posting like some Trump supporter.
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 00:09 |
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Mitt Romney posted:The Sanders campaign did not receive the Clinton data from a bug. This included doing specific searches for voters the Clinton campaign labeled as highly lightly to support or on the fence about voting. Honestly, this seems like a case of someone assuming both sides would do the same thing instead of realizing it is a tarp.
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 00:10 |
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Nonsense posted:And then the Sanders campaign told the Clinton campaign what its staffers did, and fired them. Meanwhile you're posting like some Trump supporter. Wrong. The first party to notify of the improper access was the vendor to the DNC. Then the DNC took action. The Sanders campaign did not notify of the improper access before that time.
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 00:10 |
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What's kind of obvious is the bug was somehow time-based. They stole personal information from voters for 40 minutes, what made them stop? The DNC didn't suddenly close the bug right then. Plus you have the guy who hacked people's vital info saying he had noticed the bug before - so how do we know this was the only time he exploited it to gain access to people's information he should not have had access to?
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 00:11 |
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Nonsense posted:And then the Sanders campaign told the Clinton campaign what its staffers did, and fired them. Meanwhile you're posting like some Trump supporter. No, they only owned up to it after they got their access cut off. And they only fired one of the four. pathetic little tramp posted:What's kind of obvious is the bug was somehow time-based. They stole personal information from voters for 40 minutes, what made them stop? The DNC didn't suddenly close the bug right then. Plus you have the guy who hacked people's vital info saying he had noticed the bug before - so how do we know this was the only time he exploited it to gain access to people's information he should not have had access to? Given that the bad code was only live for about four hours, my guess is that they only did it for 40 minutes because that was the time from their noticing it to when the system got taken down to fix the bug.
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 00:12 |
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Mitt Romney posted:Wrong. The first party to notify of the improper access was the vendor to the DNC. Then the DNC took action. The Sanders campaign did not notify of the improper access before that time. Ah, that is correct, thank you, I had forgotten about the vendor company.
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 00:12 |
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This wouldn't look as bad if someone else from some state party or pac had also used the bug to download data, but no one else did, so it looks worse.
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pathetic little tramp posted:What's kind of obvious is the bug was somehow time-based. They stole personal information from voters for 40 minutes, what made them stop? The DNC didn't suddenly close the bug right then. Plus you have the guy who hacked people's vital info saying he had noticed the bug before - so how do we know this was the only time he exploited it to gain access to people's information he should not have had access to? There was no bug before- it was misinformation from the Sanders campaign and related to a different vendor (not NGP VAN): quote:Second, there has been independent confirmation that NGP VAN has not received previous notice of a data breach regarding NGP VAN. Josh Uretsky, the former National Data Director for the Sanders campaign confirmed on MSNBC (at 5:47), and also on CNN, regarding the previous incident: “it wasn’t actually within the VAN VoteBuilder system, it was another system.”
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 00:14 |
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Mitt Romney posted:The Sanders campaign did not receive the Clinton data from a bug. Your statement contridicts itself. Also I want some clear technicallities on this bug, could of been a feature as far as the staffer was concerned.
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Nonsense posted:Ah, that is correct, thank you, I had forgotten about the vendor company. Really the fact that NGP-VAN has a monopoly on the business niche because of their contracts with DNC and state parties is the biggest gently caress up of all of this. The party isn't served by being vendor locked. But then again, you should see the horrible names people get called on progex who dare to defend using Nationbuilder
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 00:15 |
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BlueBlazer posted:Your statement contridicts itself. The bug allowed them to access the Clinton campaigns internal scoring of voter support level. They admitted they knew what they were seeing was stuff they weren't supposed to be able to see. But sure, it was an innocent error.
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 00:16 |
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fishmech posted:The US produces assloads of energy. That 0.4% of total US electricity production is still 16.37 billion kilowatthours. And wind is far more popular and productive. So solar's actually doing pretty good then?
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Trabisnikof posted:Really the fact that NGP-VAN has a monopoly on the business niche because of their contracts with DNC and state parties is the biggest gently caress up of all of this. No, that's the whole point. Because after this primary is over the nominee gets all the data, along with all the other Democrats running for office.
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 00:18 |
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Joementum posted:No, that's the whole point. Because after this primary is over the nominee gets all the data, along with all the other Democrats running for office. You need to in-house the data store and force your vendors to tie in, you want to the same effect without the single vendor lock in.
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 00:20 |
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Tweets based off a conference call with Clinton Campaign Manager quote:@ZekeJMiller
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 00:20 |
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Trabisnikof posted:You need to in-house the data store and force your vendors to tie in, you want to the same effect without the single vendor lock in. Vendors housing data with an extraction clause is incredibly common and a routine business practice. There's no need for the DNC to build its own data warehouse, which they'd inevitably need to contract out anyway.
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 00:22 |
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Fire this incompetent side-taking unprofessional. It's disgusting: no one has any conscious anymore and everyone has a price. Tell me Debbie: how much did shillery's campaign manager promise you if you helped undermine sander's campaign? A spot in the cabinet? Money? Favors? Go to hell you but not before you download everything twice.
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 00:23 |
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Mr Interweb posted:So solar's actually doing pretty good then? Yeah I mean, part of it is that solar always has a disadvantage in total generation because, well, it doesn't work at night and has reduced effectiveness on cloudy/rainy days. Wind produces 11 times as much because there's a lot of places you can put it across the US that'll at least manage partial capacity generation 24/7, and there's also been viable wind production for a lot longer.
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 00:24 |
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Hell yes. Bern the DNC and DWC to the ground. Bern bern yes you're gonna bern. Yes you're gonna Bern Bern yes you're gonna Bern.
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 00:26 |
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Joementum posted:Vendors housing data with an extraction clause is incredibly common and a routine business practice. There's no need for the DNC to build its own data warehouse, which they'd inevitably need to contract out anyway. I grant you that, but last I knew it was still difficult for campaigns to use vendors other than ngp-van and maintain data consistency with the party. Even if it was ngp-van contracted to build the interface that allows other vendors to be used by campaigns it would be better than the vendor lockin that exists.
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 00:30 |
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Mitt Romney posted:There was no bug before- it was misinformation from the Sanders campaign and related to a different vendor (not NGP VAN): Yeah this is what confused me, they were saying they'd seen the bug before so I was thrown for a loop - a temporary bug from a patch makes the most sense now.
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 00:30 |
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Trabisnikof posted:No, you're right, I think the Clinton campaign would have fought it harder with the DNC directly and likely used their influence to stop such a reaction. quote:I still think if they get their data connection back soon enough, this should hopefully all be a meaningless and very stupid spat.
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Trabisnikof posted:I grant you that, but last I knew it was still difficult for campaigns to use vendors other than ngp-van and maintain data consistency with the party. Even if it was ngp-van contracted to build the interface that allows other vendors to be used by campaigns it would be better than the vendor lockin that exists. Possibly, but I'm not sure what advantage there would be for the campaigns to do that, particularly because NGP-VAN contains data collected by past campaigns, which they get to use.
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 00:33 |
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Mitt Romney posted:There was no bug before- it was misinformation from the Sanders campaign and related to a different vendor (not NGP VAN): That would mean the lawsuit they filed contained at least partial misinformation. Wouldn't that likely come back to bite them in the rear end, as that seems easily verifiable?
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 00:33 |
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The primaries are no longer about finding an acceptable candidate we can all agree on, but a circus act for all walks of life on the internet to extract schadenfreude from whomever they think the losing side will be. We have no idea who we're really electing anymore, only our thirst for psychological bloodlust matters.
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Freakazoid_ posted:The primaries are no longer about finding an acceptable candidate we can all agree on, but a circus act for all walks of life on the internet to extract schadenfreude from whomever they think the losing side will be. We have no idea who we're really electing anymore, only our thirst for psychological bloodlust matters. Sure, but it's nice to be right all along no?
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 00:36 |
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Trabisnikof posted:I grant you that, but last I knew it was still difficult for campaigns to use vendors other than ngp-van and maintain data consistency with the party. Even if it was ngp-van contracted to build the interface that allows other vendors to be used by campaigns it would be better than the vendor lockin that exists. Because half the time the interface won't work. And when the campaign is over and broke who is going to pay to fix it? Having a single source of truth and system of record is worth a vendor lock in.
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 00:36 |
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Kilroy posted:The Clinton campaign would not have had to do even that, as the possibility that they might lose access wouldn't have even come up. Sure, you can call people liars because you distrust them, but it is just your gut and a lack of evidence to back you up. Kilroy posted:Let's flip that around. With all that is at stake, why risk alienating potential voters in the general to kneecap a candidate who has no chance of getting the nomination anyway? Or there's an alternative explanation that this isn't a grand conspiracy? Instead an overreaction from an organization that's not known for its technical knowhow. Watergate comes to mind quickly and that comparison sheds light on the response. Joementum posted:Possibly, but I'm not sure what advantage there would be for the campaigns to do that, particularly because NGP-VAN contains data collected by past campaigns, which they get to use. I guess that's part of what I mean, ngp-van gets a data based advantage that can help strangle competition that could provide better campaign tools. If the party was a better arbiter of that data, any D campaign no matter what vendor they pick would be getting as much data as possible. Xae posted:Because half the time the interface won't work. Why would that have to be true? Would they have contracted a Republican company?
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 00:39 |
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Kilroy posted:The Clinton campaign would not have had to do even that, as the possibility that they might lose access wouldn't have even come up. From an insider friend of mine who organizes fieldwork for campaigns. quote:The staffer in question stole millions of dollars of proprietary information, had at least three subordinates (including a Deputy National Data Director) do the same thing, and then attempted to hide the evidence once he'd done it. When they say "we didn't save any data" that tells me that they created dynamic (rather than static) lists. This is actually even worse, since the dynamic list updates every time new data comes in. That tells me that Sanders' data people planned for this theft to be ongoing. When they hid the folders, and the way they hid the folders (according to news reports), it looks suspiciously like they were trying to hide what was going on so that they could keep the theft undiscovered and steal data over the long haul.
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Gail Wynand posted:Realchat the US is the only developed country that taxes foreign earnings and it's an idiotic policy And anyway, you'll still have to file, even if your tax liability is zero, and don't even get me starting on the onerous FINRA reporting requirements and the fact that the US is such a pain in the rear end about this stuff that many foreign banks are starting to just straight-out refuse to do business with Americans. Most Americans seem to think that if you dare to live and work outside the US, you are something like a traitor, and American tax policy really reflects that.
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 00:39 |
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theblackw0lf posted:That would mean the lawsuit they filed contained at least partial misinformation. Nah. Lawyers probably got misinformation and they'll file an amended complaint reflecting that.
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Mr. Wookums posted:Michigan is in a state of perpetual white flight. Jesus, that's the truth. Michigan is by far the most racist place I've ever lived in the north.
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