That looks pretty active to me, and far from dead, Spain alone has 30 smaller thermal solar plants already and is building another dozen or so, along with lots of other ones in development: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
That 2+ million defensive uses a year was pretty much blown away as being a poorly devised survey, one reported using their gun 52 times in a year. When they were checked back on, some said they hadn't been attacked at all, but still reported that they'd used a gun to defend themselves, etc.
Whether he deserved it or not according to you or me or whoever, it's not for the US military to decide what he does and does not deserve, much less force a prisoner to do something they would obviously find very offensive, and to a muslim that would probably amount to psychological abuse, much less again and again.
He was a captured prisoner, the head of state of a sovereign nation (not that the Bushites believe that exists), tyrant or not, it's up to the Iraqis or the world court to decide his punishment and fate, not the guy holding the key to the cell that personally enjoys every second of it.
It is reprehensible and slimy, and I'm totally not surprised by it in the least!
Just look at the average type of egotistical macho jackoff that end up the in army or marines and it explains itself. No offense to anybody that is or was in the military (some of my best friends have been), but I'm sure you can think of quite a few people that fit the bill, and if you can, you don't qualify as one of them.
I really didn't read the whole page, but just from the first skim through, I think the real problem isn't with his predictions, he's probably correct in that we *could* and *should* have all of those things right now.
The simple fact is that that governments and those idiots in the marketing departments worldwide are the ones making the decisions as to what we should and should not use.
He can't take into account that there will be 9/11, just as he can't take into account that Stem Cell research would be restricted by Bush (thus hindering our bioengineering by 10 years or more), or that greed is driving the market, not ideas of technological utopia that most of us dream of.
Personally I think it's time we got off our asses and got ourselves to where he says we should be, if not further, and stop screwing around with trendy new cell phones and that uber-stylish newest macbook.
I'm quite astounded that he manged to patent the idea of spraying water into the air to begin with.
How come somebody in the patent office didn't laugh himself to tears, photocopy it and post it all over the building for everybody else to laugh at, and outright reject it?
They are shit holes, in shambles, unsanitary. These are the ones normal Cubans get to visit as opposed to the nice hospital for the party elites and foreigners with cash that you saw in Sicko. Trying to sneak photos of them out of the country can get you arrested, but some have succeeded. I like the guy taking his sick father to the hospital in a wheelbarrow because there were no ambulances. If I go to a pharmacy here I have to pay, but I can get my drugs. There you will see a sign saying there are no prescriptions available.
Oh you're so right mr. genius! Why don't we take into consideration that they're a "shit hole" communist country with dirty hospitals, etc.. no money for ambulances.. and then ask ourselves.. WHY are they so dirty and poor? Oh yeah, it's the trade embargo (because they're just... communists!...unlike all those other communist countries we don't mind.. like China)thanks to the US!
The simple fact is that despite that handicap, they still at least try to provide free medical care to their citizens, which is more than I can say for our government and you selfish greedy bastards crying "not out of my wallet!".
If people living in a "shit hole" communist nation can take care of their people to the level that they even come close to our health care ratings, they're obviously doing something right, and we should be as ashamed as we are shamed by it.
You forget this is a communist totalitarian state we're talking about. They never tell the truth, just like the Soviet Union was broadcasting about record wheat harvests that'll feed everybody while we were sending them the millions of tons of grain they needed to actually do it.
Yeah, we get so many great truths out of our wonderful republic don't we? lies about WMDs, lies about links to terrorism, lies about threats to our nation, etc.. it goes on and on, and that's just Iraq 7 years ago. Get a clue and stop feeling like this is the greatest country in the world, guess what, maybe it was once, but it certainly isn't now.
Just so everybody in the world gets this once and for all, it's not RACIST just because somebody is from a different country. Read a dictionary, get a clue, whatever you gotta do! I'm tired of seeing idiots say it.
I'd not even qualify jewish and africans as a different 'race', we're all human, grow up and live with it.
If they're charging more or less money because of your location, it's due to economic reasons, probably just because they CAN charge you more, they will.
Same reason you can get pharmaceutical drugs in India for $0.05 a pill when it's $2 per pill in the US.
Thank you!
I was supposed to be converted to an employee with benefits, but they had a hard time getting the state to actually pay a _decent_ wage (I have 12 years as a programmer). "with benefits"? Where is this?! If it's anything like friends "with benefits" then sign me up too!
Are alcoholics not "alcohol abusers?" It seems to me that they are defining "abuse" as falling outside of medically approved use, not legal standards. How can alcoholics be alcohol abusers? the very purpose of a bottle of vodka is to be drunk!
It's perfectly socially acceptable to "abuse" alcohol as long as you don't "abuse" it every day to the point where everybody notices.
They're hurting themselves, no doubt, but there's no abuse going on.
I think this is a great way to enlighten people and broaden their experience of the world. Wake up buddy, since when is any religion interested in it's people being enlightened in any other way than the one the leaders are instructing?! That's not enlightenment, it's indoctrination. Religious groups don't want your mind broadened, at best they want you to travel around and see the world to do allah/god/etc's work in brainwashing new converts. People that truly think for themselves and see the world as it is quickly lose those silly ideas.
Yes, they do. Right now. Who knows what Verizon will be offering when (if) these guys get this network going. Awesome. The US still has better internet access than much of the third world. Oh that's reassuring. We're doing better than the third world everybody, cheers! Whatever happened to being a superpower? An economic juggernaut? What a joke we've turned into if the third world starts beating us in internet access.
Let's start at the top.. what is wrong with eugenics exactly? This is the 21st century, evolution isn't doing us any good, we're in charge of our own genetic destiny now. I'm not talking some psychotic idea of not letting some people breed, and radical genetic altering or anything of that nature. This is positive eugenics, improving our species as a whole. It's happening one way or another, it's been happening for years, it's not going to stop because it's just common sense to not have children that will live a short life and be mentally defective.
What's wrong with not breeding bad qualities? People are already doing this, there are multiple tests for tons of disorders and diseases, such as Down syndrome, and many people already have abortions if these tests prove positive. I'm sure that for many of them, doctors probably recommend an abortion, because to not do so would only be a painful tragedy for all involved.
I shouldn't even bother responding to hatred, but emotion has nothing to do with it. There is no intolerance either, I didn't say we should hunt them all down and lock them in a slave labor camp or gas them in "shower" rooms or anything. I'm taking a purely practical point of view on the matter.
I don't need to ask anyone if they want to die or not, that doesn't even make any sense. It would be far more accurate and sensible to ask them if they would rather have down syndrome or not have it. That brings you a bit closer to the current, and I'm sure future, reality of the situation. Nice try though!
Maybe one day, if you haven't already been in the situation, you'll have a fetus in the oven and some of these tests will most likely (I think some are essentially mandatory) be done.. You go have all the mentally retarded babies you want, I welcome you to it.
Mine will be as healthy and intelligent as I can manage.
Well I hate to sound horrible about it.. but.. Down's Syndrome afflicted people should NOT be born in the first place. The very idea that we could find out that someone would have a horrible disability that would force them to spend a (shortened) lifetime of suffering, and then force them to be born into it anyway because of some ridiculous misguided ideas of (religious) ethics! That's not ethical at all! It's unforgivably cruel. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live my life in that state, and I'm sure almost nobody else with any sense or "dignity" would either.
They are less worthy, they aren't fit to breed, they're defective. This is the same thing as some animals eating or killing their young. It might not sound very pleasant or nice, but it's the smart and logical thing to do. You don't want genetically defective creatures eating up your food and soaking up resources when they'll never provide anything in return and do nothing but suffer unfulfilled and pathetic lives.
When the supposedly ethical Catholic Church can figure this out, maybe they'll have caught up with science.
Sick kids in Africa? Get real. Christ, we've got enough sick kids HERE to worry about, not to mention homeless people and a thousand other social problems that need money thrown at them. Why send it somewhere it won't do any good at all? That kind of money is a drop in the bucket to Africa's problems, and to be honest, it's not our responsibility to solve the world's problems, fix your own problems first and then worry about everybody else's! If you're going to donate money, at least donate it sensibly rather than the first bleeding heart item you spot on TV.
If breeding should be a requirement of voting, then I submit that breeding should be licensed and only people that are fit to raise a child should be allowed to do so, rather than the pathetic examples of parenthood we have in the US these days. Children are raised by MTV and parents are too busy living their own lives to even notice that their children are homicidal gun-toting nutjobs aiming to murder their own classmates because they can't fit in.
Wake up America! Stop having children when you aren't ready for it, and when you are ready for it, consider them your top priority!
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I'd have to disagree about solar thermal, we not too long ago got this one running in the US: http://www.engadget.com/2014/0...
There's this one in Israel due to be finished in 2017: http://www.brightsourceenergy....
One in Chile that was just announced: http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/08...
One in South Africa: http://www.itweb.co.za/index.p...
That looks pretty active to me, and far from dead, Spain alone has 30 smaller thermal solar plants already and is building another dozen or so, along with lots of other ones in development: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
I just hope they put their top guys on this and figure out that they need to go at night!
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That 2+ million defensive uses a year was pretty much blown away as being a poorly devised survey, one reported using their gun 52 times in a year. When they were checked back on, some said they hadn't been attacked at all, but still reported that they'd used a gun to defend themselves, etc.
Try this instead, starting on page 8 and on.
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles/165476.pdf
Coincidentally I went to jr. high with one of Admiral Zumwalt's granddaughters in NC.
I don't find the idea of Vegan Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robots, or VEATRs (Granola Terminators) much more reassuring, but thanks for trying.
Whether he deserved it or not according to you or me or whoever, it's not for the US military to decide what he does and does not deserve, much less force a prisoner to do something they would obviously find very offensive, and to a muslim that would probably amount to psychological abuse, much less again and again.
He was a captured prisoner, the head of state of a sovereign nation (not that the Bushites believe that exists), tyrant or not, it's up to the Iraqis or the world court to decide his punishment and fate, not the guy holding the key to the cell that personally enjoys every second of it.
It is reprehensible and slimy, and I'm totally not surprised by it in the least!
Just look at the average type of egotistical macho jackoff that end up the in army or marines and it explains itself.
No offense to anybody that is or was in the military (some of my best friends have been), but I'm sure you can think of quite a few people that fit the bill, and if you can, you don't qualify as one of them.
I really didn't read the whole page, but just from the first skim through, I think the real problem isn't with his predictions, he's probably correct in that we *could* and *should* have all of those things right now.
The simple fact is that that governments and those idiots in the marketing departments worldwide are the ones making the decisions as to what we should and should not use.
He can't take into account that there will be 9/11, just as he can't take into account that Stem Cell research would be restricted by Bush (thus hindering our bioengineering by 10 years or more), or that greed is driving the market, not ideas of technological utopia that most of us dream of.
Personally I think it's time we got off our asses and got ourselves to where he says we should be, if not further, and stop screwing around with trendy new cell phones and that uber-stylish newest macbook.
I'm quite astounded that he manged to patent the idea of spraying water into the air to begin with. How come somebody in the patent office didn't laugh himself to tears, photocopy it and post it all over the building for everybody else to laugh at, and outright reject it?
They are shit holes, in shambles, unsanitary. These are the ones normal Cubans get to visit as opposed to the nice hospital for the party elites and foreigners with cash that you saw in Sicko. Trying to sneak photos of them out of the country can get you arrested, but some have succeeded. I like the guy taking his sick father to the hospital in a wheelbarrow because there were no ambulances. If I go to a pharmacy here I have to pay, but I can get my drugs. There you will see a sign saying there are no prescriptions available.
Oh you're so right mr. genius! Why don't we take into consideration that they're a "shit hole" communist country with dirty hospitals, etc.. no money for ambulances.. and then ask ourselves.. WHY are they so dirty and poor? Oh yeah, it's the trade embargo (because they're just... communists! ...unlike all those other communist countries we don't mind.. like China)thanks to the US!
The simple fact is that despite that handicap, they still at least try to provide free medical care to their citizens, which is more than I can say for our government and you selfish greedy bastards crying "not out of my wallet!".
If people living in a "shit hole" communist nation can take care of their people to the level that they even come close to our health care ratings, they're obviously doing something right, and we should be as ashamed as we are shamed by it.
You forget this is a communist totalitarian state we're talking about. They never tell the truth, just like the Soviet Union was broadcasting about record wheat harvests that'll feed everybody while we were sending them the millions of tons of grain they needed to actually do it.
Yeah, we get so many great truths out of our wonderful republic don't we? lies about WMDs, lies about links to terrorism, lies about threats to our nation, etc.. it goes on and on, and that's just Iraq 7 years ago. Get a clue and stop feeling like this is the greatest country in the world, guess what, maybe it was once, but it certainly isn't now.
Just so everybody in the world gets this once and for all, it's not RACIST just because somebody is from a different country. Read a dictionary, get a clue, whatever you gotta do! I'm tired of seeing idiots say it. I'd not even qualify jewish and africans as a different 'race', we're all human, grow up and live with it. If they're charging more or less money because of your location, it's due to economic reasons, probably just because they CAN charge you more, they will. Same reason you can get pharmaceutical drugs in India for $0.05 a pill when it's $2 per pill in the US. Thank you!
Let's start at the top.. what is wrong with eugenics exactly? This is the 21st century, evolution isn't doing us any good, we're in charge of our own genetic destiny now. I'm not talking some psychotic idea of not letting some people breed, and radical genetic altering or anything of that nature. This is positive eugenics, improving our species as a whole. It's happening one way or another, it's been happening for years, it's not going to stop because it's just common sense to not have children that will live a short life and be mentally defective.
What's wrong with not breeding bad qualities? People are already doing this, there are multiple tests for tons of disorders and diseases, such as Down syndrome, and many people already have abortions if these tests prove positive. I'm sure that for many of them, doctors probably recommend an abortion, because to not do so would only be a painful tragedy for all involved.
I shouldn't even bother responding to hatred, but emotion has nothing to do with it. There is no intolerance either, I didn't say we should hunt them all down and lock them in a slave labor camp or gas them in "shower" rooms or anything.
I'm taking a purely practical point of view on the matter.
I don't need to ask anyone if they want to die or not, that doesn't even make any sense. It would be far more accurate and sensible to ask them if they would rather have down syndrome or not have it. That brings you a bit closer to the current, and I'm sure future, reality of the situation. Nice try though!
Maybe one day, if you haven't already been in the situation, you'll have a fetus in the oven and some of these tests will most likely (I think some are essentially mandatory) be done.. You go have all the mentally retarded babies you want, I welcome you to it.
Mine will be as healthy and intelligent as I can manage.
Well I hate to sound horrible about it.. but.. Down's Syndrome afflicted people should NOT be born in the first place. The very idea that we could find out that someone would have a horrible disability that would force them to spend a (shortened) lifetime of suffering, and then force them to be born into it anyway because of some ridiculous misguided ideas of (religious) ethics! That's not ethical at all! It's unforgivably cruel. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live my life in that state, and I'm sure almost nobody else with any sense or "dignity" would either.
They are less worthy, they aren't fit to breed, they're defective. This is the same thing as some animals eating or killing their young. It might not sound very pleasant or nice, but it's the smart and logical thing to do. You don't want genetically defective creatures eating up your food and soaking up resources when they'll never provide anything in return and do nothing but suffer unfulfilled and pathetic lives.
When the supposedly ethical Catholic Church can figure this out, maybe they'll have caught up with science.
Sick kids in Africa? Get real. Christ, we've got enough sick kids HERE to worry about, not to mention homeless people and a thousand other social problems that need money thrown at them. Why send it somewhere it won't do any good at all? That kind of money is a drop in the bucket to Africa's problems, and to be honest, it's not our responsibility to solve the world's problems, fix your own problems first and then worry about everybody else's! If you're going to donate money, at least donate it sensibly rather than the first bleeding heart item you spot on TV.
If breeding should be a requirement of voting, then I submit that breeding should be licensed and only people that are fit to raise a child should be allowed to do so, rather than the pathetic examples of parenthood we have in the US these days. Children are raised by MTV and parents are too busy living their own lives to even notice that their children are homicidal gun-toting nutjobs aiming to murder their own classmates because they can't fit in. Wake up America! Stop having children when you aren't ready for it, and when you are ready for it, consider them your top priority!