So according to CNN ( https://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=PCG ) PGE net income was 5.28%; interesting to compare with Apple at 21.3%

As I understand it, CPUC (which is appointed by the...

The so called "precautionary principle" is a canard to stop literally anything.
If one supposes that EMF at low level for a short time might be safe, but for a longer exposure might not be, how...

well no, not overwhelming. I have a subscription to IEEEexplore so I pulled the complete paper. It has virtually no new information and the few cases cited were highly anecdotal (as in "my friend...

If true, it certainly supports the concept that "cooked nuts=cancer nuts". Heating effects of RF are largely understood. Happened to radar technicians in the Navy first.

And there is some...

Happens every time. I always forget to set the
#define Irony On
and those that are hard-of-sarcasm send along a note to chastise me.

Or course the 35 watt FM transmitter will have no affect...

correcting myself (thanks Barry), I should have said "this has less to do with free wifi" rather than nothing, since it was pointed out that sonic also said: As we shift away from wireless, we are...

This has NOTHING to do with the free Wifi in town. The business the sold was far from free (~$80 per month for 4ish MBs). It is a different system altogether: point-to-multipoint wifi to support...

And the best part: the cable company went ahead and put in all the WiFi nodes anyhow, charging for access. So we have all the Wifi anyway. We just have to pay for it.

Well, at least we can hold...

You're solving the wrong problem. The problem is Federalism: centralizing power and control (and money) in the federal government. Each party, when it gets control, wants more power centralized so...

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive... those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the...

One problem today is that speakers must account for the ignorance of their audience, and she failed to do such.

Great is not the superlative of good. Great is a measure of magnitude (e.g....

Sorry for the sarcastic response without the appropriate #SarcasmOn marker.

The video propaganda conflates two or three largely unrelated phenomena:
The summer dams mean people arrive at the...

I think you miss the point: River Good, people bad...

I guess the goal is to not allow any people to interact with the river in any way. Probably better for the river (hard to argue with that)...

"A fool and his money are soon parted", or as my father paraphrased it "a fool and his money are some party..."

We've all been foolish at times, but I applaud your willingness to admit it in this...

Because Sebastopol is an enclave or relatively well-to-do white baby-boomer hippies who would rather not have the character of the town changed by adding housing and more people. So since there is no...

I have tried to articulate that there is a true difference between Public and Private unions, the most obvious is there are no owners controlling the money issues in public unions. Do you agree...

Just finished dinner with two guys visiting from Sweden. They have real concerns for their country and think they must close the borders before it is too late. "you see," they explain, "it's well...

First: ad hominem attacks are extremely unbecoming. I am not lying. I am not xenophobic. I have no agenda against immigrants.

Do you advocate completely open borders? Do you advocate that...

I've got no problem with private sector unions, to which your quote above refers, but you completely ignore the situation with PUBLIC SECTOR unions, which have no "Big Money" interests fighting to...

Completely agree for private employee unions. they are on the opposite side of big money and owners. Owners watch out for themselves, unions watch out for members, a virtuous tension exists.

But...

When a private company negotiates with a private union, the private company has a goal to save as much money as possible, and deferred costs must be accounted for. So this keeps pensions (and wages)...

Stupid Government in SF. You can poop in the street, no problem, but you can't get a drink of water in city hall. Remember CRV? State setup the program but made no effort to setup returns so now...

Does she have any record working for a living, running a business, and living with the rules and regs that she has and presumably will pass. I personally favor voting for a real-life person who...

Many people have been updated to Windows 10 without really knowing it, and so things like browsers and the start-up screens have changed. I got a spam call, again foreign accent, saying "can I be...

Where's the outcry about EMF! I'm guessing this station is much more powerful than the small wifi or PGE smart meters.

Moving the antenna will expose even more people to the potential cancer...

You forgot "stopped the nearly yearly flooding of Guerneville" and "providing water for the current residents". Nearly every city grows until it reaches a level of misery where an equal number of...

KPFA of course uses EMF fields to transmit its message!

The experiment is progressing apace. There are certainly several billion test subjects all over the world. Oddly, there seems to be some...

Why do we spend 68 billion on a train from Stockton to Fresno, and not on water infrastructure. Even in this drought year we have had flooding events. We don't have a water shortage problem, we...

In China, the responsibility lies with the pedestrian, as it naturally should. The policy is "car first". Only at a controlled intersection (stop lights and crosswalk control) is the car...

for rich, old, white people without kids (to be a bit more precise).

Note that the local elementary school is reduced by half, while the population is stable or slightly rising? Why, because the...

I'd rather meet with him to suggest they fix some roads such as Green Valley Road near Sullivan road. 3 days with a back hoe and a few 18 inch culverts would go a long way towards solving the...

you miss my point entirely. I don't know or don't care if fluoride works or not (I would guess it probably does, and I would guess vaccines work and don't cause autism), but I point out that this is...

You miss the point...
Here are two cases where the state (some would say the nanny state) says "we know how to care for you better than you know yourself)

1) Helmets are good, you must wear a...

Indeed, just read that as well. I should have said "steal the property from CVS"; doesn't sounds as good though. I am sure many readers of the site would agree that stealing property from...

How is this any different, in principal, to requiring a motor cycle helmet (many riders claim the helmets interfere with sight and hearing and make riding more dangerous), or seat belts, or bike...

You might take the time to read some of the papers, and even better, read the papers that cite the papers in the list as I have just done (hint: use scholar.google.com). The results are not what you...

Just when I thought I was out...they pull me back in


No, I don't think I am unaware of the risks, in fact, I think I understand the risks very well, and that they are very low indeed. Where do...

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I think everyone in the west county should write the Sonoma county supervisors asking them to demand that ATT provide at least adequate service. If Verizon...

Learned a new word today.

:thumbsup: Usually my irony detector goes off, but it must of misfired this time.

It strikes me as very odd for a Sebastopol resident to be on the Santa Rosa City Council.

In fact, there was an article recently about prosecutors in LA charging candidates for essentially listing...

Lemme get this straight...the storing of old tractors and parts is an eyesore, but artsy-fartsy junk in the same place is OK. whatever.

How 'bout the Tractor guy just puts up a sign saying...

Anyone ask the Tractor guy how he feels? Maybe he would like to keep selling tractors.

the fact that condensation can occur with anything that causes pressure differentials is what makes cloud formation so interesting. If you have ever been to the Midwest, you can go from clear, to...

I don't object to the principal of GMO labeling, but if this law passed, you will find the virtually every product in every store will have the label "might contains GMOs". Why? Because there will...

Yesterday there was an employment offer for "intern" (read that as free labor). As I understand the labor-law, you cannot have an "intern" and not pay minimum wage unless it is part of a certified...

Or not being a middle-aged, paunchy white guy...

I've been pulled over twice for no reason other than having a motorcycle and a beard. Get a little older, get rid of the motorcycle, don't get...

I was going to let this pass... it is similar to the situation where you look over the fence and see your neighbor eating dog poo out of his yard...by the time he's reached that point, there's no way...

Which is why I said "in the limit", by which I mean, if eventually everyone had no net usage, still someone would have to pay for the grid. The two main costs for electricity is production and...

This was inevitable. In the limit, all homes produce net energy, all have plenty during the day, but none is available at night. So you have to have backup production, and pay for lines to carry it...