Good point that I th0ought of mentioning but considering that we'll probably never see CO2 of 4000 ppm due to volcano-ism slowly slowing down, I didn't bother. It is actually quite amazing that over billions of years, the temperature has stayed within something like 40K of perfect for life. Sun gets hotter, volcano-ism decreases and such.
Socialism can also be the people or workers owning the means of production and socialism seems most successful without government involvement or at least minimal involvement. Most systems need an arbitrator of contracts and such. Personally I like co-ops when it comes to socialism.
Yes, it is one of the flaws of democracies. Some have Written Constitutions that take a super majority or such to change to mitigate the problem. Unluckily America in particular has a habit of ignoring its Constitution, or at least parts. The 1st Amendment has somehow morphed into Congress will not suppress some protected speech as listed by the Supreme Court. Likewise the 2nd has many exceptions that weren't written into the original simply written amendment. Other clauses are twisted into something much different then the original intent and other parts such as the 9th and 10th are simply ignored.
If only that was true. America has a long history of ignoring treaties, from the first, eg the Jay treaty (reaffirmed in whichever it was that ended the War of 1812) allows my wife and son to ignore the border and walk into the States with a backpack full of whatever. I bet the American border patrol would stop them. This is just one of a long list of treaties with the native Americans that America has broken. Now, once again the US has implemented softwood tariffs on us, despite treaties such as NAFTA that disallows this and I'm sure that once again when the courts declare it illegal, America will ignore those courts even with a treaty that says they have to obey them. Like the Bill of Rights, America treats the treaty clause as a guideline rather then a Constitutional thing.
The problem is that the 7 States and 2 Provinces have an agreement not to remove any water from the drainage basin. 7 million gallons (is that American or Canadian gallons?) here and 7 million gallons there, repeated enough times and we're up to some big numbers that might have an affect.
Didn't Iraq try that? Worked really well. The real problem is that the USA is not trustworthy. Even if Trump and the current Congress make promises, the next election can change things.
Actually biological processes do sequester carbon on long time scales as not all the carbon is released. Soil gets deeper, lakes fill in with organic matter, sometimes forming peat which then can turn into coal. My understanding is that on geological time scales, about half of carbon is sequestered in rock through weathering and such and half through biological processes. Short term, speeding up the weathering process may be the most beneficial and it sure wouldn't hurt. Even naturally this happens, during periods of extreme volcano-ism lots of CO2 is released and lots of virgin rock is produced that gets weathered and sequesters the carbon. Increased CO2 also causes more rain that speeds up the sequestering process.
Obviously the social scientist or whatever he is (I didn't read the article) doesn't know what he is talking about. The CO2 levels in the past have hit closer to 4000 ppm and life flourished. Of course it was life that evolved for the high temperatures of the time and when the CO2 concentration dropped, there was an extinction event and different life flourished. Eventually (billion years or so) solar caused warming will make the Earth uninhabitable but that is so far in the future that we don't have to consider it.
Seems that over geological time scales, half the carbon is absorbed by rock. Think of all the limestone that has been deposited. Carbon sequestration is important, even ignoring mankind. Volcanoes spit it out, sometimes in large quantities and we have the example of Venus of what happens over billions of years of no sequestration.
There's a limit to what trees can sequester. There's a limit to how many trees you can plant, trees die and rot releasing most of that carbon back into the system and if you keep harvesting them, eventually the soil runs out of other nutrients that trees require. Historically, on geological time scales, it seems that half the carbon has been sequestered in plants and half in rocks. This is good as the Earth continuously replenishes the carbon through volcano-ism and it needs removing. Venus is an example of what happens when carbon is not removed from the eco-system over billions of years. There's also natural feedback mechanisms, more CO2 raises temperatures, causes more evaporation which leads to more rain, more erosion and more natural rock sequestering, and this increases when there are lots of new volcanic rocks. Of course this feedback takes a while to work. Planting trees is beneficial and the more planted the better in general though I don't know about sacrificing grass lands. But they're not a magic bullet.
Hopefully not many people think that only man affects the climate. Really it is like a river, the idea that man is the only thing that affects a rivers flow is stupid as obviously the weather has an affect. It is just as stupid to say that man doesn't affect the river as he dams it, dredges it and paves over the surrounding drainage lands. Anyone of those things can seriously affect the rivers flow. Climate is similar, we're not the only affect but we're a big one.
I'm rural (Canadian, but not much different then the US), and locally at the best had perhaps 3 dial-up providers, all charging about the same price, to choose from. At the end of my dial-up days, there was only the phone company providing it and the price was $45 a month (plus the phone line that was officially $20 but seemed to have crept up to $40) for unlimited. The phone company finally built a cell tower (and layed fibre over much of the town) but as they didn't want to update the lines where I am, they have a deal for an LTE connection. 250GB limit for about $100 a month, which gives me about 10-15 Mb down and 1-3 Mb up. It is one way to handle the last mile but takes government pressure (and probably subsidies though it is hard to find out if so).
You misread my comment, the crappy degrees such as liberal arts came in in between no degree and a good degree such as engineering. Kinda makes sense as there are a lot of jobs where they just want some kind of degree that won't actually be used.
Pure raw hard 50% +1 democracy is all fun n games until you find yourself on the 50% -1 side. We call this tyranny of the majority and having seen this in action in real life I am quite glad our founders were smarter than you.
So you're saying that tyranny of the minority is better? Why not go all the way and have the 1% ruling the 99%? Oh right, that seems to be America.
Of course it is capitalism, they used their capital to buy a monopoly, classic capitalism. What it is not is a free market. Don't get confused and think that free market equals capitalism as capitalism strives to get rid of the free market so the capitalist can rake in the profits without the effort of actually competing.
Unluckily my last non-computerized vehicle rusted away and now that I'm driving a '91, things break that can't be fixed on the side of the road. This is partially due to being a Ford, which I'd swear was engineered to be hard to fix. Last thing I did was a fuel pump. Stupid thing is in the tank and the tank was an inch bigger then the hole in the frame that it had to dropped out of. Before it was the clutch slave cylinder, which they helpfully put inside the bell housing. Before that it was a wiring problem in the brake lights, they helpfully ran the wire up and down the steering column, through the little u-joint. I dread getting anything newer.
There's a lot of truth in that, and it is getting worst, but at the same time, things like points have gone away, spark plugs can last a 100,000 miles and so on.
Funny enough, a while back, there was a study, looking at Canada, that even a Liberal Arts Education usually resulted in better pay then not having one. It was something like $80k with a good degree, $60k with a lousy degree and $40k with no degree. A lot of people forget that the arts used to cover a lot of subjects, basically everything that wasn't covered by science. You can look at the US Constitution where they updated the reason for copyright from the original "For the advancement of learning" to "the arts and sciences".
Many plumbers work in construction, great when there's a building boom, shitty when there isn't. Even the number of mechanics seems to be dropping. Remember when every gas station had a mechanic? That was partially due to cars that needed fixing a lot more then now and eventually with the move to electric cars they'll be a lot less call for mechanics. As usual, if you're really good at what you do or have the kind of personality that allows you to form your own successful business, you might have stable employment.
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Good point that I th0ought of mentioning but considering that we'll probably never see CO2 of 4000 ppm due to volcano-ism slowly slowing down, I didn't bother.
It is actually quite amazing that over billions of years, the temperature has stayed within something like 40K of perfect for life. Sun gets hotter, volcano-ism decreases and such.
Good point. Another use is targeting certain demographics that are unpopular for what ever reason.
Socialism can also be the people or workers owning the means of production and socialism seems most successful without government involvement or at least minimal involvement. Most systems need an arbitrator of contracts and such.
Personally I like co-ops when it comes to socialism.
Well as the "War on Drugs" has shown, they can make a good try. How many Americans in prison now? How many have had fundamental rights removed?
Yes, it is one of the flaws of democracies. Some have Written Constitutions that take a super majority or such to change to mitigate the problem. Unluckily America in particular has a habit of ignoring its Constitution, or at least parts. The 1st Amendment has somehow morphed into Congress will not suppress some protected speech as listed by the Supreme Court. Likewise the 2nd has many exceptions that weren't written into the original simply written amendment. Other clauses are twisted into something much different then the original intent and other parts such as the 9th and 10th are simply ignored.
4.54 litres, properly called the Imperial Gallon
If only that was true. America has a long history of ignoring treaties, from the first, eg the Jay treaty (reaffirmed in whichever it was that ended the War of 1812) allows my wife and son to ignore the border and walk into the States with a backpack full of whatever. I bet the American border patrol would stop them. This is just one of a long list of treaties with the native Americans that America has broken.
Now, once again the US has implemented softwood tariffs on us, despite treaties such as NAFTA that disallows this and I'm sure that once again when the courts declare it illegal, America will ignore those courts even with a treaty that says they have to obey them.
Like the Bill of Rights, America treats the treaty clause as a guideline rather then a Constitutional thing.
I think you need to learn what socialist means. Hint, it does not mean nimby or environmentalist.
The problem is that the 7 States and 2 Provinces have an agreement not to remove any water from the drainage basin.
7 million gallons (is that American or Canadian gallons?) here and 7 million gallons there, repeated enough times and we're up to some big numbers that might have an affect.
Didn't Iraq try that? Worked really well.
The real problem is that the USA is not trustworthy. Even if Trump and the current Congress make promises, the next election can change things.
Actually biological processes do sequester carbon on long time scales as not all the carbon is released. Soil gets deeper, lakes fill in with organic matter, sometimes forming peat which then can turn into coal. My understanding is that on geological time scales, about half of carbon is sequestered in rock through weathering and such and half through biological processes.
Short term, speeding up the weathering process may be the most beneficial and it sure wouldn't hurt. Even naturally this happens, during periods of extreme volcano-ism lots of CO2 is released and lots of virgin rock is produced that gets weathered and sequesters the carbon. Increased CO2 also causes more rain that speeds up the sequestering process.
Obviously the social scientist or whatever he is (I didn't read the article) doesn't know what he is talking about. The CO2 levels in the past have hit closer to 4000 ppm and life flourished. Of course it was life that evolved for the high temperatures of the time and when the CO2 concentration dropped, there was an extinction event and different life flourished.
Eventually (billion years or so) solar caused warming will make the Earth uninhabitable but that is so far in the future that we don't have to consider it.
Seems that over geological time scales, half the carbon is absorbed by rock. Think of all the limestone that has been deposited.
Carbon sequestration is important, even ignoring mankind. Volcanoes spit it out, sometimes in large quantities and we have the example of Venus of what happens over billions of years of no sequestration.
There's a limit to what trees can sequester. There's a limit to how many trees you can plant, trees die and rot releasing most of that carbon back into the system and if you keep harvesting them, eventually the soil runs out of other nutrients that trees require.
Historically, on geological time scales, it seems that half the carbon has been sequestered in plants and half in rocks. This is good as the Earth continuously replenishes the carbon through volcano-ism and it needs removing. Venus is an example of what happens when carbon is not removed from the eco-system over billions of years.
There's also natural feedback mechanisms, more CO2 raises temperatures, causes more evaporation which leads to more rain, more erosion and more natural rock sequestering, and this increases when there are lots of new volcanic rocks. Of course this feedback takes a while to work.
Planting trees is beneficial and the more planted the better in general though I don't know about sacrificing grass lands. But they're not a magic bullet.
Hopefully not many people think that only man affects the climate. Really it is like a river, the idea that man is the only thing that affects a rivers flow is stupid as obviously the weather has an affect. It is just as stupid to say that man doesn't affect the river as he dams it, dredges it and paves over the surrounding drainage lands. Anyone of those things can seriously affect the rivers flow. Climate is similar, we're not the only affect but we're a big one.
When was the last time that the American government used antitrust or restraint of trade against an American business?
Huh? They have the money to pay for their sites not to be blocked and to block other sites.
I'm rural (Canadian, but not much different then the US), and locally at the best had perhaps 3 dial-up providers, all charging about the same price, to choose from. At the end of my dial-up days, there was only the phone company providing it and the price was $45 a month (plus the phone line that was officially $20 but seemed to have crept up to $40) for unlimited.
The phone company finally built a cell tower (and layed fibre over much of the town) but as they didn't want to update the lines where I am, they have a deal for an LTE connection. 250GB limit for about $100 a month, which gives me about 10-15 Mb down and 1-3 Mb up.
It is one way to handle the last mile but takes government pressure (and probably subsidies though it is hard to find out if so).
You misread my comment, the crappy degrees such as liberal arts came in in between no degree and a good degree such as engineering. Kinda makes sense as there are a lot of jobs where they just want some kind of degree that won't actually be used.
Pure raw hard 50% +1 democracy is all fun n games until you find yourself on the 50% -1 side. We call this tyranny of the majority and having seen this in action in real life I am quite glad our founders were smarter than you.
So you're saying that tyranny of the minority is better? Why not go all the way and have the 1% ruling the 99%? Oh right, that seems to be America.
Of course it is capitalism, they used their capital to buy a monopoly, classic capitalism. What it is not is a free market.
Don't get confused and think that free market equals capitalism as capitalism strives to get rid of the free market so the capitalist can rake in the profits without the effort of actually competing.
Unluckily my last non-computerized vehicle rusted away and now that I'm driving a '91, things break that can't be fixed on the side of the road. This is partially due to being a Ford, which I'd swear was engineered to be hard to fix. Last thing I did was a fuel pump. Stupid thing is in the tank and the tank was an inch bigger then the hole in the frame that it had to dropped out of. Before it was the clutch slave cylinder, which they helpfully put inside the bell housing. Before that it was a wiring problem in the brake lights, they helpfully ran the wire up and down the steering column, through the little u-joint.
I dread getting anything newer.
There's a lot of truth in that, and it is getting worst, but at the same time, things like points have gone away, spark plugs can last a 100,000 miles and so on.
Funny enough, a while back, there was a study, looking at Canada, that even a Liberal Arts Education usually resulted in better pay then not having one. It was something like $80k with a good degree, $60k with a lousy degree and $40k with no degree.
A lot of people forget that the arts used to cover a lot of subjects, basically everything that wasn't covered by science. You can look at the US Constitution where they updated the reason for copyright from the original "For the advancement of learning" to "the arts and sciences".
Many plumbers work in construction, great when there's a building boom, shitty when there isn't. Even the number of mechanics seems to be dropping. Remember when every gas station had a mechanic? That was partially due to cars that needed fixing a lot more then now and eventually with the move to electric cars they'll be a lot less call for mechanics.
As usual, if you're really good at what you do or have the kind of personality that allows you to form your own successful business, you might have stable employment.