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kristopher

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23. This is the internet.
Fri May 4, 2012, 10:40 PM
May 2012

Would you like me to post some pictures of a PV array down the road? Would you be able to tell if it were mine or not if I said it was?

That's why attempts to establish a position of respect by using screen names with "professor" or "progressive" in your screen name or by claiming to have a solar PV system must, of necessity, carry little to no weight.

The only basis for judging the arguments being made are the arguments themselves. That is how you isolate what a person's perspective actually is. For an example that is unrelated let's say you are a vegan and animal rights activist. You have a dialog with someone named "polarbearcub" that claims to be a vegan but who spends all of their time between posting vegan recipes explaining how necessary factory farming is.

The person might be exactly what they claim or they may be a complete fake on the line of that British guy who was posing as a fay woman from Lebanon. You really can never know just from what is provided on a message board.

That means the best thing to to is confine your observations to the content of the discussions themselves. It is inappropriate to claim you know the person works for a factory farm, but it is entirely appropriate to point out that their argument only makes sense when it is seen through the values of the person operating a factory farm. The person might, after all, be e vegan for health reasons only and sincerely believe that such farming, if done "humanely" (in the traditional sense of the word) does not violate animal "rights" at all.

The message is what matters, not claims of who we are.

What is their objection? BlueToTheBone May 2012 #1
Competition jpak May 2012 #2
With a distributed renewable grid... kristopher May 2012 #31
Over simplified puff piece ProgressiveProfessor May 2012 #3
The issue is a public policy vote by the California Public Utilities Commission kristopher May 2012 #4
Actually I am explaining the facts as they exists today in California ProgressiveProfessor May 2012 #5
The article is in no sense a "puff piece" kristopher May 2012 #6
Your usual retreat to ad hominems... ProgressiveProfessor May 2012 #7
Bullshit. kristopher May 2012 #8
The only bullshit here is from your sacred cows... ProgressiveProfessor May 2012 #9
Your diversion is noted but I'm still waiting... kristopher May 2012 #10
I answered your questions, how about answering mine ProgressiveProfessor May 2012 #13
Bullshit, that isn't an answer any more than your earlier comments addressed the OP. kristopher May 2012 #14
You sacred cow is gored...I think it needs another injection of hyperbole... ProgressiveProfessor May 2012 #19
Poor "Progressive Professor"... kristopher May 2012 #24
dude just stop backwoodsbob May 2012 #29
feel free to explain in detail how that is so... kristopher May 2012 #30
. XemaSab May 2012 #28
How can you call a person who went solar anti-solar? Yo_Mama May 2012 #11
No, the "Professor's" points are not good. kristopher May 2012 #12
Actually they are excellent ProgressiveProfessor May 2012 #15
Horsehocky - you are standing directly in corporate utility's shoes. kristopher May 2012 #16
Take some pics of your set-up and post them. Ikonoklast May 2012 #17
This is the internet. kristopher May 2012 #23
I have a pretty good idea as to where that poster is coming from. Ikonoklast May 2012 #26
That's a lot more efficient way of making the same point. kristopher May 2012 #27
Sort of like your solar setup is totally unsubstantiated? XemaSab May 2012 #25
Because I do not toe his line WRT to renewal energy and offer instead a more rational approach ProgressiveProfessor May 2012 #18
More horsehocky. kristopher May 2012 #20
It does illustrate the level of ridiculousness that has blighted DU lately, no? NickB79 May 2012 #21
Really? kristopher May 2012 #22
If you are in California you might want to sign their petition kristopher May 2012 #32
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