Even more reason why they shouldn't be forced to assist. The FBI is demanding that Apple work for them. The government is not allowed to force labor except if you've been convicted of a crime (Apple hasn't in this case) or it's the draft.
This would be analogous to the police demanding the manufacturer of the locks on the searched house break the locks on this house and in effect break every lock they've every sold and will sell in the future.
Great Britain is hardly analogous to the US. In addition to being vastly larger in area and natural resources, the whole not being an island thing really helps.
You mean the massive forests in Canada and Russia that are too cold and remote to farm today? It's not just tundra I'm talking about, even though tundra is a lot of potentially productive organic soil just waiting to be unfrozen...
Also, less land for agriculture isn't necessary a death knell anyhow. GMOs have been increasing crop yields per area for years and can continue to do so. Yields will also go up with a higher CO2 concentration. As long as "organic" farming doesn't keep increasing in trendiness around the world, we have no fear of running out of agriculture to support the population. Another big savings on agriculture would be to stop turning corn into auto fuel...
Actually there is the same amount of total sunlight, it's just at a different angle. Regardless, plants grow just fine in greenhouses in Alaska today. Those extra hours of sunlight in the summer (when you grow crops anyway) more than make up for the angle difference.
No country is self sufficient anymore. And the trend is toward globalization. I am all for getting my food from Canada and Russia if that's where the food is grown most efficiently.
Also, crop yields continue to go up on a per area basis. GMOs are a solution if arable land shrinks as is dropping corn based ethanol as a fuel...
Well unless you consider that a warmer climate will increase the total arable land for agriculture... A net positive? How much of the earth's surface is currently not used for agriculture because it is too cold? Also, most areas near the ocean aren't used for agriculture anyway... Farms are usually well inland.
All those people buying and living in coastal houses don't seem to believe in climate change I guess. The ocean is rising, yet prices remain sky high for anything near the coast...
There are plenty of skilled jobs out there waiting to be filled at 20+/hour. I know plenty of highly paid welders that don't even have a GED. The problem is people going to college for 4 years and not just accumulating debt, but losing out on wages to gain no skills in demand at all. Then they expect to be able to get a job that requires no physical labor in a climate controlled environment with a regular schedule and no travel and be able to afford their own apartment in a major city. That is absurd. If you went to college for 4 years and you can only get a minimum wage job, that is your fault, not an employer's.
It isn't legally recognized and it is actively discouraged by judges and lawyers. However, it is very much a thing, and there is nothing the courts or judges can do about it other than trying to identify people who are aware of it and make sure they don't get on a jury.
Are you saying that if the climate gets warmer we would devolve? Reptiles were the advanced form of life at the time and they ruled the earth. But mammals were just becoming a thing and as it turns out were much better at adapting to changing climate and managed to survive whatever catastrophe killed the dinosaurs.
Define abruptly... How many people live where their parents lived? How many people live or work in a structure more than 50 years old? If you live in the good ol' USA, that number is probably not a large block of the population. It's really hard to imagine not being able to adapt to climate change over the next hundred years considering 100 years ago: WWI was raging, the light switch was invented, and Walter Cronkite was just being born.
I know, it's hard to believe economics can overcome government meddling. It's amazing how gas prices are dropping through the floor even though Obama axed the Keystone XL pipeline extension after almost a decade and government opposition to fracking has been so strong. Those darn citizens have quite the desire for making money and the government just can't beat it out of them.
No, sadly it's not even that nice. The State Plane Coordinate System uses "feet" and by feet I mean either the "International Foot" which is defined as.3048 meters or the "U.S. Survey Foot" which is 1200/3937 meters. Sadly both are still in use today.
No, the text says nothing about the right to have a well regulated militia. It says that a well regulated militia is a necessity of a free state. It however does say that the people have a right to keep and bear arms. It says nothing about that right being dependent on passing any sort of test or background check.
Yes a huge returning labor force taking advantage of major increases in production methods and materials research probably didn't factor in nearly as much as regulations, taxes, and government spending.
It is illegal to store classified information on an insecure server. The notion that she was unaware spy satellite photos and stuff so sensitive it can never be released to the public was classified because it wasn't marked as such is bullshit especially considering her position and time with the government. Ignorance of the law is not an excuse. Hillary is trying to pull the "I didn't see any speed limit signs" card when she was caught doing 100+ on the highway. She was doing something illegal, had to have known it was illegal, and has been intentionally obfuscating the investigation at every turn.
AC is right. Forget the tax system. It's just a net loss of productivity in dealing with it. Make it a flat tax to eliminate the vast majority of financial wasted labor. How many accounting and tax law jobs exist solely to deal with an unnecessarily complicated tax system? All of it a waste.
Meanwhile, we have a spending problem. Until someone figures out how to balance a budget, it makes little difference as we are just printing money and IOUs to cover the rest.
You are right, the planet doesn't care. Life isn't easy to maintain and it will suck in the future. But it also sucked in the past and we still managed to build up that world spanning civilization. The climate may have helped to a certain degree, but despite different climates, humans have managed to settle across most of the horrible environments the world has to offer from tropical places filled with disease to deserts with practically no water, to the arctic reaches. I'm not to worried about a few feet of sea level rise or a degree or two of warming on average.
Considering the Earth orbiting (roughly) the sun is something we can measure and use to refine and improve orbital models is a prime difference between it and climate science. Give the Earth a few more climate cycles that we can judge against the models we have developed and then maybe I'll put more stock into climate change predictions.
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The voters make the choices in the primaries*
* well the voters in Iowa, NH, and SC anyway. How many candidates have already dropped out and over 90% of the country hasn't voted yet...
Even more reason why they shouldn't be forced to assist. The FBI is demanding that Apple work for them. The government is not allowed to force labor except if you've been convicted of a crime (Apple hasn't in this case) or it's the draft.
This would be analogous to the police demanding the manufacturer of the locks on the searched house break the locks on this house and in effect break every lock they've every sold and will sell in the future.
Agreed. Worst title ever. I've read it like 7 times and I still have no idea what it is saying. Maybe that comma should be a semi-colon?
Great Britain is hardly analogous to the US. In addition to being vastly larger in area and natural resources, the whole not being an island thing really helps.
You mean the massive forests in Canada and Russia that are too cold and remote to farm today? It's not just tundra I'm talking about, even though tundra is a lot of potentially productive organic soil just waiting to be unfrozen...
Also, less land for agriculture isn't necessary a death knell anyhow. GMOs have been increasing crop yields per area for years and can continue to do so. Yields will also go up with a higher CO2 concentration. As long as "organic" farming doesn't keep increasing in trendiness around the world, we have no fear of running out of agriculture to support the population. Another big savings on agriculture would be to stop turning corn into auto fuel...
Actually there is the same amount of total sunlight, it's just at a different angle. Regardless, plants grow just fine in greenhouses in Alaska today. Those extra hours of sunlight in the summer (when you grow crops anyway) more than make up for the angle difference.
No country is self sufficient anymore. And the trend is toward globalization. I am all for getting my food from Canada and Russia if that's where the food is grown most efficiently.
Also, crop yields continue to go up on a per area basis. GMOs are a solution if arable land shrinks as is dropping corn based ethanol as a fuel...
Global warming? THANKS OBAMA!
Obama President? Global warming!
Well unless you consider that a warmer climate will increase the total arable land for agriculture... A net positive? How much of the earth's surface is currently not used for agriculture because it is too cold? Also, most areas near the ocean aren't used for agriculture anyway... Farms are usually well inland.
All those people buying and living in coastal houses don't seem to believe in climate change I guess. The ocean is rising, yet prices remain sky high for anything near the coast...
There are plenty of skilled jobs out there waiting to be filled at 20+/hour. I know plenty of highly paid welders that don't even have a GED. The problem is people going to college for 4 years and not just accumulating debt, but losing out on wages to gain no skills in demand at all. Then they expect to be able to get a job that requires no physical labor in a climate controlled environment with a regular schedule and no travel and be able to afford their own apartment in a major city. That is absurd. If you went to college for 4 years and you can only get a minimum wage job, that is your fault, not an employer's.
Not only that, but it's insulting to the actual slaves in the world.
Well we do have a war on terror and I would bet most politicians are terrified of a population with rights that choose to exercise them.
It isn't legally recognized and it is actively discouraged by judges and lawyers. However, it is very much a thing, and there is nothing the courts or judges can do about it other than trying to identify people who are aware of it and make sure they don't get on a jury.
Are you saying that if the climate gets warmer we would devolve? Reptiles were the advanced form of life at the time and they ruled the earth. But mammals were just becoming a thing and as it turns out were much better at adapting to changing climate and managed to survive whatever catastrophe killed the dinosaurs.
Define abruptly... How many people live where their parents lived? How many people live or work in a structure more than 50 years old? If you live in the good ol' USA, that number is probably not a large block of the population. It's really hard to imagine not being able to adapt to climate change over the next hundred years considering 100 years ago: WWI was raging, the light switch was invented, and Walter Cronkite was just being born.
I know, it's hard to believe economics can overcome government meddling. It's amazing how gas prices are dropping through the floor even though Obama axed the Keystone XL pipeline extension after almost a decade and government opposition to fracking has been so strong. Those darn citizens have quite the desire for making money and the government just can't beat it out of them.
No, sadly it's not even that nice. The State Plane Coordinate System uses "feet" and by feet I mean either the "International Foot" which is defined as .3048 meters or the "U.S. Survey Foot" which is 1200/3937 meters. Sadly both are still in use today.
http://vterrain.org/Projection...
No, the text says nothing about the right to have a well regulated militia. It says that a well regulated militia is a necessity of a free state. It however does say that the people have a right to keep and bear arms. It says nothing about that right being dependent on passing any sort of test or background check.
My oldest brother says he is a moderate. But he is over 30 and lives in my parent's basement. It's the telltale sign of a liberal.
Yes a huge returning labor force taking advantage of major increases in production methods and materials research probably didn't factor in nearly as much as regulations, taxes, and government spending.
http://www.npr.org/sections/it...
It is illegal to store classified information on an insecure server. The notion that she was unaware spy satellite photos and stuff so sensitive it can never be released to the public was classified because it wasn't marked as such is bullshit especially considering her position and time with the government. Ignorance of the law is not an excuse. Hillary is trying to pull the "I didn't see any speed limit signs" card when she was caught doing 100+ on the highway. She was doing something illegal, had to have known it was illegal, and has been intentionally obfuscating the investigation at every turn.
AC is right. Forget the tax system. It's just a net loss of productivity in dealing with it. Make it a flat tax to eliminate the vast majority of financial wasted labor. How many accounting and tax law jobs exist solely to deal with an unnecessarily complicated tax system? All of it a waste.
Meanwhile, we have a spending problem. Until someone figures out how to balance a budget, it makes little difference as we are just printing money and IOUs to cover the rest.
You are right, the planet doesn't care. Life isn't easy to maintain and it will suck in the future. But it also sucked in the past and we still managed to build up that world spanning civilization. The climate may have helped to a certain degree, but despite different climates, humans have managed to settle across most of the horrible environments the world has to offer from tropical places filled with disease to deserts with practically no water, to the arctic reaches. I'm not to worried about a few feet of sea level rise or a degree or two of warming on average.
Considering the Earth orbiting (roughly) the sun is something we can measure and use to refine and improve orbital models is a prime difference between it and climate science. Give the Earth a few more climate cycles that we can judge against the models we have developed and then maybe I'll put more stock into climate change predictions.