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and collect the cats, spay them, and let 'em go. I knew a gal who worked for a catch and release outfit funded by the local gov't and donations. Worked great at reducing feral cat populations in a humane way.

You do know that doesn't really work, right?

If you want to effectively reduce the feral cat population, you have to euthanize them. Trap, Neuter, Release programs simply do not work.

Oh, it's rsilvergun again, the blatant "progressive" troll poster. I should have known. You do know that progressive policies have universally been proven to fail, right? Raising the minimum wage causes inflation until the wage growth is erased. Raising the federal minimum wage will accomplish nothing in the long term and kill jobs in the short term.

What like the utterly needless computer that you typed that on? Computers are luxuries, not survival. You are a god damned hypocrite.

Almost everything in the world today is built to be competitive to the last cent. That means that it's all shit compared to what it could be. Once upon a time, we built things as strong as we could. Then we realized that there was a lot of efficiency to be had by making them weaker, and more failure-prone. That is perfectly legitimate in many situations, but something has certainly been lost. It's true of electronics and it's true of mechanical things like cars. But the kicker is that most of it isn't to make life better for humanity, but so that some particular person can get richer.

Take computers, which have been good enough for most people to do the things they want to do for longer than the typical MTBF. If you make your PCB with a little more copper, a little more solder, a little thicker board, solid capacitors... you know the drill, it will last longer. But companies want to sell more parts, so it's not in their best interest to make it last any longer than their competitors' hardware, unless they're selling into a niche market that will pay more. All very logical, but the end result is that a lot of unnecessary garbage is produced, and there is an environmental cost just to its production — let alone its disposal .

Cars have been improving a lot quicker than computers lately, and are more aggressively recycled pound for pound, but they could have "all" been made out of Aluminum by the early nineties (following the 1991 Acura NSX and 1994 Audi A8) and all full-frame vehicles long before that; the first aluminum-bodied automobile dates from 1899, JLR vehicles were covered in war-surplus Alumin[i]um, and here in the USA Peterbilt has been building Aluminum truck bodies for some seventy years. Aluminum costs more up front (both in energy and dollars) but is easier and thus cheaper to recycle than steel. It also saves weight, meaning it improves efficiency. But all these car companies have to compete with one another for the last damned dollar, so we have to get whatever they can stamp out cheaply. (Tooling is cheaper and/or lasts longer for stamping Aluminum, too...) Most interior parts are still not designed to be recycled, either, so they simply get landfilled.

http://www.takepart.com/articl...

1. Has nothing whatsoever to do with Monsanto.
2. Not used in plants.
3. Not a product, just R&D.

Care to try again?

http://www.takepart.com/articl...

There are a variety of online articles that contradict your claim that independent labor unions are allowed in China such as this one , this one, and this one. Perhaps Chinese labor unions are defined in law but protections are not enforced in practice like their environmental regulations.

Given Chinese censorship of news and social media it is difficult for anyone including Chinese citizens to know exactly what takes place in that country. I am more inclined to believe the accusations of dissidents than the wealthy authoritarian party's propaganda.

Personally, I have been advocating phasing out coal in favor of nuclear for over 40 years. The vast majority of people who claim to be oh so very very concerned about CO2, on the other hand, have been among those obstructing nuclear for over 40 years. Warming is their chickens coming home to roost. Unfortunately, those chickens are crapping all over those of us who do not deny arithmetic, too.

"I am not so much pro-nuclear as I am pro-arithmetic." -- Stuart Brand

Repeating what I have posted previously when the topic has come up, many of the environmentalists worried about the climate do advocate nuclear power.

James Hansen, for example, is probably the most well known person warning about climate change. He is strongly in favor of nuclear power. He stated: ..continued opposition to nuclear power threatens humanity’s ability to avoid dangerous climate change.
We call on your organization to support the development and deployment of safer nuclear power systems as a practical means of addressing the climate change problem.... in the real world there is no credible path to climate stabilization that does not include a substantial role for nuclear power

http://grist.org/news/more-nuk...
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes....
http://www.takepart.com/articl...
http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear-...

Many of the environmentalists worried about the climate do, in fact, advocate nuclear power.

James Hansen, for example, is probably the most well known person warning about climate change. He is strongly in favor of nuclear power. He stated:

..continued opposition to nuclear power threatens humanity’s ability to avoid dangerous climate change.
We call on your organization to support the development and deployment of safer nuclear power systems as a practical means of addressing the climate change problem.... in the real world there is no credible path to climate stabilization that does not include a substantial role for nuclear power

citation: http://grist.org/news/more-nuk...
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes....

Or, check out this one:
http://www.takepart.com/articl...

I think that this proposal, signed by Elon Musk amongst many others, has an interesting approach: http://www.takepart.com/open-l...

tl;dr Instead of burdening VW with the huge cost of fixing the problems and fines, mandate that they invest the same money in Electric Vehicles and plant (ie economic development and jobs) in the affected states (in this case CA).

Now where did that come from? I'm not anti-vaxer, of course. I'm a scientist. A real one with over 30 years of experience in the scientific field.

As I said, show me scientifically CO2 is causing it, not a political propaganda web site.

Thousands of scientists say it's not man made.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...

Villages showing up again that were under ice showing it was normally warmer:
http://www.takepart.com/articl...

Could go on and on and on. There's PLENTY of evidence that this is natural. I have seen absolutely nothing to show CO2 has anything to do with it any more than for example - the hot air from politicians.

So I'll ask again and I mean this in a nice way - show me some scientific proof that CO2 is the cause. Not opinion, not a political propaganda site, something scientific. Please don't respond unless you have something scientific.

You might think that, but you see the beauty of this thing called the "internets" allows you to easily research it and find out that you probably are wrong :

link
link
link

Amazing how that works right? You can actually educate yourself instead of simply spouting off your own biases and 'gut' feel!

I only have my own personal anecdote, but I was the top boy in my highschool class by far. That didn't even get me into the top 10% of my class, though, since the top 10% were all girls. I think the only other boy in the honor society was a boy from the next year's class but I can't remember. (I know who the next highest boy in the school's ranking was but I don't remember whether or not he hit the cutoff for honor society.)

This was during the 90s in a public high school, so it wasn't like the population was simply unbalanced. This is hardly a new problem. Our education system simply doesn't engage with boys and hasn't for years at this point.

If you want links, though, it isn't hard to find them:

Itâ(TM)s Time to Worry: Boys Are Rapidly Falling Behind Girls in School How to Make School Better for Boys: Start by acknowledging that boys are languishing while girls are succeeding. Education: Boys Falling Behind Girls in Many Areas (Paywalled, so I have no idea what it says)

Those were just the top results on Google.

Indeed. Our educational system simply doesn't engage with kids in general, it's just that girls don't act out the general frustration in as obvious a fashion as boys do. By the time you get to higher education, you've selected out the kids who really can't deal with it at all. No other modern industry has the failure rate that we accept as normal in our educational system.

I only have my own personal anecdote, but I was the top boy in my highschool class by far. That didn't even get me into the top 10% of my class, though, since the top 10% were all girls. I think the only other boy in the honor society was a boy from the next year's class but I can't remember. (I know who the next highest boy in the school's ranking was but I don't remember whether or not he hit the cutoff for honor society.)

This was during the 90s in a public high school, so it wasn't like the population was simply unbalanced. This is hardly a new problem. Our education system simply doesn't engage with boys and hasn't for years at this point.

If you want links, though, it isn't hard to find them:

Itâ(TM)s Time to Worry: Boys Are Rapidly Falling Behind Girls in School
How to Make School Better for Boys: Start by acknowledging that boys are languishing while girls are succeeding.
Education: Boys Falling Behind Girls in Many Areas (Paywalled, so I have no idea what it says)

Those were just the top results on Google.

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These "projects" you mention. Care to give examples of each? I know, coming up with actual facts is much too difficult. Especially hen those pesky facts interfere with your biases. Poor baby!

Girl launches discrimination suit to join boys only wrestling team
http://www.takepart.com/articl...

Girl files discrimination suit to join boy scouts
http://www.bsa-discrimination....

Strip Club sued because it didn't want women patrons.
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/n...

Want more?

Isn't Saudi Arabia an ally of the US?

Also, have a look at some of the things happening in your own country:
Passengers Cheer as Trans Woman is Stripped and Beaten on Atlanta Train (with video) (May 31, 2014)
Abortion Clinic Escort Opens Up About 'Disgusting, Degrading And Racist' Attacks On Patients (February 21, 2014)
Sikh (mistaken for a Muslim) attacked by racist mob, thanks Good Samaritans who got between him and his hate-filled attackers (after getting his jaw was surgically re-wired) (September 23, 2013) Transgender Woman Dies After Beating in Front of NYPD Precinct (August 26, 2013)
Police: Man damaged Bloomington Planned Parenthood building, cited religious beliefs (April 11 2013)

Please note that I don't support any repressive regimes or groups that enforce FGM or promote sexist behaviours, I am just pointing out that the US is not a shining example of tolerance and social liberties...it would be best if the US focused on sorting out her own problems before pointing fingers at others. Also, thanks for liberating Afghanistan, freeing the Afghans of the nasty Soviet puppet government and delivering them into the hands of the Al-Quaeda and the Taliban is highly appreciated by the entire world!

An RTG wouldn't produce any waste, being completely self-contained. The Soviets used them for years to power lighthouses and other remote sites, as did the USAF.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...

The objection might be price, since I have no idea how much a 100W or 200W RTG would cost. But you'd save all the manpower costs and risks of having to build something, they're quite tough and immune to most meteorological conditions, and easily replaced at the end of their life cycles (10 years in the case of the most common Soviet ones).

As I understand it, no one says you can't have a nuclear power plant (especially an RTG) in Antarctica. McMurdo had one for a decade (albeit with problems).

http://www.takepart.com/articl...

So these RTG's should do just fine .. if they can afford it.

dammit, the link got killed.
info about the new laws: http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/05/31/rhino-poaching-in-kenya

If that were true then they would realize that we were getting in the way of their ability to muck about and have a good time. Consider the dolphin slaughters http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/03/04/taiji-2013 and our general tendency to pollute the water they have their good time in. If they were really that intelligent then by now they would be at least working on the ability to wage war... against us!

First prison here:
http://www.takepart.com/photos/worlds-most-luxurious-prisons

Is the one I thought about in:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3887171&cid=44060109

Yes. http://www.takepart.com/article/2012/10/15/have-egg-allergy-flu-shots-likely-OK

He's interviewed extensively in Food, Inc. Good people. Here's the wikipedia entry. The documentary is a must see, by the way...