Recent content by RogerCooper

It is fairly silly gamesmanship on the part of the Republicans. Many Republicans claim that they lose elections because of massive voting by illegal aliens and yet Republican prosecutors can rarely find any evidence. Meanwhile, the groups which would be hindered the most are the elderly and...

Good point on RCV.

It doesn't sound so easy. If your mother-in-law had no relatives to assist (and drive her to the DMV) how easy would have it been for her to manage to get ID on her own. Note that in states with mandatory ID they have disallowed college ID's in an effort to shape the electorate. Nonetheless...

As someone who is actually been involved candidate petition drives, I can tell you that fraud is rampant and that specious objections to legitimate signatures are common. Many of the rules are there to prevent independent candidates from getting on the ballot in the general election or primary.

You don't need to solve it completely. Many states have adopted some form non-partisan redistricting. The congress or the courts could require some plan with a default (like proportional representation) if they adopt a plan. Note the SAVE act prohibits Ranked Choice Voting. That makes it pretty...

Did you denounce gerrymandering in Texas or anywhere else?

It is worth noting that Governor Newsom and other leading California Democrats are opposing the wealth tax as they are concerned that it will reduce future income tax collection as well as employment. Wealth taxes are also administratively difficult, which is why they quickly abandoned when...

I just compared Claude and CoPilot for Access code of moderate complexity "Write VBA Code using Selenium to login to the UPS website and download the invoices for the past week." Claude gives a much better result.

Money is whatever people are willing to accept as money. Every time that you accept a promise of future payment, directly or indirectly you create money. The Gold Standard was abandoned because a commodity standard is unstable. The relationship between the commodity and rest of the economy is...

Isn't the problem with solar power in Britain the distinct lack of sunlight? You highlighted the problem with dealing with Global Warming through conservation, is that the incentives to cheat are strong. In the end, we will need to do geoengineering to deal with Global Warming.

Solar panels are easy to replace if damaged. Wind turbines are expensive to repair and maintain. Fossil fuels have a complex and expensive infrastructure to extract and refine the fuels. Oil refineries have been a major target of both sides in the Russian invasion of the Ukraine.

Wind farms are actually less vulnerable than fossil fuel and nuclear plants as you need to knock out each turbine. Solar farms are even less vulnerable as each pane would need to be taken out. Many wind turbines in the United States are on actual working farms.

Technically it was an Alford plea.

He paid fines in a criminal case. Paxton likes to pretend that is a not a conviction but it is.

Securities fraud. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Paxton#Legal_issues. Got a very generous deal and avoided jail time.