Well that's as good as saying "well we don't need a government since all they do is screw us anyway - let's go with anarchy". Or have I missed something? Countries in Europe with dodgy proportional representation systems usually stagnate if no-one can get a majority or at lease put together a sensible coalition. You don't really want that.
Obama, contrary to popular belief, is yet another power-hungry, self-serving politician. He proved this to anyone who pays attention when he cast his vote for telecom immunity
All due respect to the telecoms industry but that's hardly the same as invading another country and causing hundreds of thousands of deaths!
You don't have to like the guy but let's try to keep a sense of perspective here...
I think we've seen the worst president in history already. Please tell me how Obama could be any worse! That's not sarcasm - it really is hard to imagine.
I mean since Clinton left we've now got 2 unwinnable wars, perhaps a million dead, the economy is utterly boned, the rest of the world hates the USA, the government can wiretap or even imprison anyone it likes without reason... I could go on.
So do, please, tell me how it could possibly be worse.
The hope is that he won't make things any worse. That, at least, makes me and many other people both inside and outside the US feel a lot safer. Perhaps he'll go the way of Jimmy Carter, but even if he does, at least we can be fairly sure there won't be another pointless war or needless reduction of civil liberties.
Elaborating a CO2 tax scam is merely a tool for social control.
Firstly, this is way offtopic. Secondly, that's nonsense. The whole point of a pollution tax is so that the business decision of "does the profit I make from doing activity X outweigh the cost of it?" includes the shared cost involved and not just the individual cost. That is to say, is it economic when we consider the cost of the damage done to the shared resource of the environment? It doesn't just apply to CO2 but other stuff too. We already have a system of laws and fines for polluting rivers and lakes; otherwise a rich factory acid could just pour battery acid into the nearest puddle because it saves him $1000 per year. Pollution taxes can be seen as a generalisation of that.
Yep - everyone except you is an idiot and you don't believe any so called "scientists" are worth their grant money when you've made your living the good old-fashioned american way... Go pick up a copy of the IPCC report and actually read it this time.
I mean certainly the media is more or less to blame for this phenomenon by constantly reporting statistical correlations as "a link" without really explaining or understanding what it means. But people who mindlessly chant it in response to any and all statistical inferences are just as dumb - and much funnier.
Who the hell modded this insightful? It's hard to think of many alternaitve reasons why frogs and salamanders are dying out at such a rate. Was there an epoch-ending asteroid strike that nobody noticed? Or is it more likely we're churning out huge amounts of pollution and destroying natural habitat hand over fist? (OK sbefore someone mentions the fungus, but that's probably a natural cycle that usually culls a certain number and then goes away.
Clearly if amphibians are so bloody fragile, they wouldn't have managed to survive for tens (hundreds? more?) of millions of years.
There are a lot of people on this page talking total rubbish about how it doesn't matter what we do to the planet as long as there is some immediate benefit to human beings.
Slashdot is being ruined by page after page of total nonsense like this. Anybody who was new to this site would probably run away horrified seeing this total crap.
Get your head out of your backside and think about how the planet is going to look in another 100 years if this carries on. The ecosystem is as important to humans as it is to amphibians and we're going to have to make some sacrifices NOW if we're avoid eventually going the way of the frogs.
That's a bit unfair. OK most ID people are crackpots but some people do acknowledge the sciences but then add "but God did it". Which is a philosophical argument, I guess. The belief in an intelligent creator of some kind is not inherently stupid.
Somewhere in between yes but a lot bigger than the Apollo lander. A sample return mission (so launching something like a tonne of stuff back into orbit) would be the next logical thing to do.
Conspiracy to commit a crime is a crime I think. But the point is good - you could just say it was all hypothetical and a jury would have to decide whether they believed you or not.
This tactic can be quite entertaining if, for example, an impatient bozo in a SUV comes up behind you while you're coasting, honks, pulls around you and speeds ahead only to stop at the light, and then you smoke him as you coast through the light just as it turns green.
Yes! I'm glad I'm not the only person who finds that entertaining. Even if it were a ferrari, if it's at a standing start and I'm doing 20 when the light goes green (if you drive the same route a lot you get a good sense of the phasing), he'll be eating my dust.
Well yes it has actually! Only the EU has come to their rescue, otherwise they were going nowhere fast. In fact, I can't really think of a single nation whose economy has taken a real boost after "help" from the WB/IMF. Seems to me that if you can't get into the WTO, you're boned.
As long as he stops deliberately wrecking the budget and avoids another war, Obama will be an improvement upon the incumbent. Looks like we'll find out.
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When they find out what they really bought, I don't expect them to admit they were wrong.
Listen, if he turns out to be as bad as Dubya, I'll not only eat my hat I'll even eat a pair of Dodgy Dick Cheney's dirty socks.
Well that's as good as saying "well we don't need a government since all they do is screw us anyway - let's go with anarchy". Or have I missed something? Countries in Europe with dodgy proportional representation systems usually stagnate if no-one can get a majority or at lease put together a sensible coalition. You don't really want that.
Obama, contrary to popular belief, is yet another power-hungry, self-serving politician. He proved this to anyone who pays attention when he cast his vote for telecom immunity
All due respect to the telecoms industry but that's hardly the same as invading another country and causing hundreds of thousands of deaths!
You don't have to like the guy but let's try to keep a sense of perspective here...
I think we've seen the worst president in history already. Please tell me how Obama could be any worse! That's not sarcasm - it really is hard to imagine.
I mean since Clinton left we've now got 2 unwinnable wars, perhaps a million dead, the economy is utterly boned, the rest of the world hates the USA, the government can wiretap or even imprison anyone it likes without reason... I could go on.
So do, please, tell me how it could possibly be worse.
Just say, "You see, deficits do matter after all."
The hope is that he won't make things any worse. That, at least, makes me and many other people both inside and outside the US feel a lot safer. Perhaps he'll go the way of Jimmy Carter, but even if he does, at least we can be fairly sure there won't be another pointless war or needless reduction of civil liberties.
Elaborating a CO2 tax scam is merely a tool for social control.
Firstly, this is way offtopic. Secondly, that's nonsense. The whole point of a pollution tax is so that the business decision of "does the profit I make from doing activity X outweigh the cost of it?" includes the shared cost involved and not just the individual cost. That is to say, is it economic when we consider the cost of the damage done to the shared resource of the environment? It doesn't just apply to CO2 but other stuff too. We already have a system of laws and fines for polluting rivers and lakes; otherwise a rich factory acid could just pour battery acid into the nearest puddle because it saves him $1000 per year. Pollution taxes can be seen as a generalisation of that.
Funny - I feel the same way about the US "government"!
Yep - everyone except you is an idiot and you don't believe any so called "scientists" are worth their grant money when you've made your living the good old-fashioned american way... Go pick up a copy of the IPCC report and actually read it this time.
Well done, that is absolutely priceless! :)
I mean certainly the media is more or less to blame for this phenomenon by constantly reporting statistical correlations as "a link" without really explaining or understanding what it means. But people who mindlessly chant it in response to any and all statistical inferences are just as dumb - and much funnier.
Who the hell modded this insightful? It's hard to think of many alternaitve reasons why frogs and salamanders are dying out at such a rate. Was there an epoch-ending asteroid strike that nobody noticed? Or is it more likely we're churning out huge amounts of pollution and destroying natural habitat hand over fist? (OK sbefore someone mentions the fungus, but that's probably a natural cycle that usually culls a certain number and then goes away.
Clearly if amphibians are so bloody fragile, they wouldn't have managed to survive for tens (hundreds? more?) of millions of years.
There are a lot of people on this page talking total rubbish about how it doesn't matter what we do to the planet as long as there is some immediate benefit to human beings.
Slashdot is being ruined by page after page of total nonsense like this. Anybody who was new to this site would probably run away horrified seeing this total crap.
Get your head out of your backside and think about how the planet is going to look in another 100 years if this carries on. The ecosystem is as important to humans as it is to amphibians and we're going to have to make some sacrifices NOW if we're avoid eventually going the way of the frogs.
Appalling.
If it's 7% or 10% it isn't beer. It's a colonial's bad impression of something you can only buy in Britain.
That's a bit unfair. OK most ID people are crackpots but some people do acknowledge the sciences but then add "but God did it". Which is a philosophical argument, I guess. The belief in an intelligent creator of some kind is not inherently stupid.
What if the steak is 3 months out of date? Ah-Ha!
Somewhere in between yes but a lot bigger than the Apollo lander. A sample return mission (so launching something like a tonne of stuff back into orbit) would be the next logical thing to do.
If by LEM you mean this then you probably can't because the gravity on Mars is much higher than it is on the Moon (about 0.38G to 0.16G I think).
That means you need a much more powerful rocket to get back up off the surface.
It's not Orion or Saturn V territory but it's still a lot of fuel and a very big lump of metal that needs to be put on the surface.
That is probably the single biggest obstacle.
Conspiracy to commit a crime is a crime I think. But the point is good - you could just say it was all hypothetical and a jury would have to decide whether they believed you or not.
I asked Elbot if it had heard of Skynet and it changed the subject.... brrrrrr!
So let's cut this bullshit right now that wealthy = villain.
Why? Jesus said it was so.
Aren't the Chinese sitting on a trillion dollars in cash? In which case, no, it's you that has the problem.
IOU == $
This tactic can be quite entertaining if, for example, an impatient bozo in a SUV comes up behind you while you're coasting, honks, pulls around you and speeds ahead only to stop at the light, and then you smoke him as you coast through the light just as it turns green.
Yes! I'm glad I'm not the only person who finds that entertaining. Even if it were a ferrari, if it's at a standing start and I'm doing 20 when the light goes green (if you drive the same route a lot you get a good sense of the phasing), he'll be eating my dust.
Well yes it has actually! Only the EU has come to their rescue, otherwise they were going nowhere fast. In fact, I can't really think of a single nation whose economy has taken a real boost after "help" from the WB/IMF. Seems to me that if you can't get into the WTO, you're boned.
As long as he stops deliberately wrecking the budget and avoids another war, Obama will be an improvement upon the incumbent. Looks like we'll find out.