Our Atomic Dominoes are Falling

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30. Pam two comments

First, you have to be calmer in your threads. In many ways you are to confrontational, instead of undermining the positions of people you are trying to correct, you confront them and all that does is get them to go on the defensive and NOT listen to you. Thus your threads amount to doing no good.

The better approach is to take a calmer look at how to correct the person you are correcting. Instead of "Wrong, Wrong, Wrong" you should say something like "You made some errors" and then in the body show what those errors are. Don't accuse a person of lying, most of the people you are dealing with, believe what they are saying is true, and calling them a lying is a waste of time. The better approach is to show WHY they made a mistake, and after a while just drop the issue. Some people will NOT listen to facts, even if the facts are not really is dispute. Some of the Anti-Nuclear people on this board fall into that trap. I have seen some pro-Nuclear people fall into that trap (Through they are more Anti-Nuclear people on DU then pro-nuclear people, so you will run across more Anti0-Nuclear people refusing to accept facts then pro-nuclear people).

I fall into that trip myself, and I have seen you fall into that trap. The best way to handle it is to avoid it by NOT being confrontational. That does NOT mean you do not have to correct anyone who you disagree with, but try to be non-confrontational. It can be hard, some idiots will NEVER listen to what you say, but once you make your statement and defended it, think about dropping out of the fight. Once you have made your point, go on to other issues on DU. Check up on your post and if it need clarification do so, but avoid useless arguments with people who will not listen and you end up talking pass each other rather then to each other.

Second Issue:

The cite Wikipedia cites for its statement as to "To Cheap to Meter" is the following:
http://media.cns-snc.ca/media/toocheap/toocheap.html

It contains some nice statements, including that the cost of fuel is only about 20% of the cost of electricity. The rest is cost of the infrastructure to distribute the electrical power and the cost to build and maintain the plant. Given that the cost to produce electricity is mostly non-fuel, electricity could never be to cheap to meter.

I suspect that is true today