I hope you don't mind if I use your comment from time to time. I run into deniers fairly often, and I like the way you dismantled this one so comprehensively...and in so few words.
I found your work while Metamoderating, after regular moderation had closed. Otherwise, I'd have given you a point instead of just writing another comment.
So why don't you tell us when, historically, we've managed to change the climate across the whole planet, jackass.
And, of course, there's the minor problem (for you) that Germany has managed to turn alternative generation into a major source of jobs...you know, jobs, those things that fuel an economy.
"If you still want to keep your old TV with a dial on it for tuning, go right ahead, grandpa. The rest of us will be asking the air for a new show and don't much care if the world knows it.
We simply think that even a 4C global increase in temperature over a century is preferable to creating a system by which nations collaborate on massive intervention in the economy.
I've gone to Pale Moon, but I have Opera as a backup. I'm not pleased that they've been acquired by a Chinese company, because I have little doubt the only thing standing between me and full-scale surveillance by one of the nastier totalitarian regimes on the planet is their lack of interest.
The method for reaching the surface of Mars wouldn't be the same as the one for getting on/off Jupiter's moons. Difference in gravity plus presence/absence of an atmosphere are two of the factors involved. The length of the journey presents one set of challenges. What they do when they get to their destination is an entirely different question.
Solving big problems is a great way to get yourself summarily dismissed as a nutcase. There was a doctor back in the 60's who said the evidence presuming a cause/effect relationship between cholesterol and heart disease was flat-out wrong.
He was practically disbarred.
Just today I heard that the manufacturers of Tylenol will have to put a warning on the bottle about drinking and taking it. Check out the death toll from people who didn't know any better.
There are many other examples, mainly in medicine and pharmaceuticals, but also elsewhere.
Very rich corporations are raking in billions of dollars every year by not solving problems. They don't appreciate it when somebody comes along and actually solves one. It puts the brakes on the gravy train.
"Humane or not, what is so especially "undignified" about rats? What makes them worse, than, for example, cats, deer or wild horses?"
Well, there's the fact that cats, deer and wild horses rarely gnaw wires inside walls or leave feces in suspended ceilings. Oh, and they don't usually carry the Black Death.
Let's not forget, Edge is managing to outperform Chrome, apparently, even while spending significant resources ratting out its users in every way Microsoft can conceive of.
Bush made an evil decision based on cherry-picked data, and sold it to a bunch of Democrats too spineless to call him on it.
Nobody's clean here, but Bush and Cheney are the ones with blood on their hands.
And I'm far from "progressive". I'm just not some fascist wanker who would give a pass to the asshats who put nearly five thousand American soldiers in the ground "because oil".
Ask a hard one. The Democrats have steadfastly maintained the whole collegial solidarity tradition, even though it became obvious not long after the window closed that the Republicans were simply interested in spitting on a hand extended in friendship rather than compromising on anything.
And if you didn't know, there is a window of opportunity for that kind of thing. Years down the road, they can't suddenly decide to charge the ex-President without being accused of political opportunism.
Also, unlike Republicans, Democrats have never cultivated the utter indifference to hypocrisy needed to oppose the right...which would rather destroy the country and rule the ashes than work with their "liberal" opposition on anything at all.
If the Republicans were actually held to account, Bush and Cheney would be in prison right now for war crimes leading to the death of nearly 5,000 American soldiers.
So let's see if I have this straight...you're saying if I break the law for years and years (let's say by parking illegally on somebody else's property), and I finally get caught and forced to pay a penalty for my crime, I should only be held responsible for the last time I committed it?
LOL
It's pretty obvious you have very little knowledge of either socialism or law.
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I hope you don't mind if I use your comment from time to time. I run into deniers fairly often, and I like the way you dismantled this one so comprehensively...and in so few words.
I found your work while Metamoderating, after regular moderation had closed. Otherwise, I'd have given you a point instead of just writing another comment.
So why don't you tell us when, historically, we've managed to change the climate across the whole planet, jackass.
And, of course, there's the minor problem (for you) that Germany has managed to turn alternative generation into a major source of jobs...you know, jobs, those things that fuel an economy.
"If you still want to keep your old TV with a dial on it for tuning, go right ahead, grandpa. The rest of us will be asking the air for a new show and don't much care if the world knows it.
And we will pwn your young asses. :-)
We simply think that even a 4C global increase in temperature over a century is preferable to creating a system by which nations collaborate on massive intervention in the economy.
That's because you're idiots.
I've gone to Pale Moon, but I have Opera as a backup. I'm not pleased that they've been acquired by a Chinese company, because I have little doubt the only thing standing between me and full-scale surveillance by one of the nastier totalitarian regimes on the planet is their lack of interest.
The method for reaching the surface of Mars wouldn't be the same as the one for getting on/off Jupiter's moons. Difference in gravity plus presence/absence of an atmosphere are two of the factors involved. The length of the journey presents one set of challenges. What they do when they get to their destination is an entirely different question.
I'm told some used to use candles, but it was just the same old thing, wick in and wick out.
"Fire in the hole!!!"
You're so right about the way they move into a neighbourhood and just keep coming back.
Solving big problems is a great way to get yourself summarily dismissed as a nutcase. There was a doctor back in the 60's who said the evidence presuming a cause/effect relationship between cholesterol and heart disease was flat-out wrong.
He was practically disbarred.
Just today I heard that the manufacturers of Tylenol will have to put a warning on the bottle about drinking and taking it. Check out the death toll from people who didn't know any better.
There are many other examples, mainly in medicine and pharmaceuticals, but also elsewhere.
Very rich corporations are raking in billions of dollars every year by not solving problems. They don't appreciate it when somebody comes along and actually solves one. It puts the brakes on the gravy train.
"Humane or not, what is so especially "undignified" about rats? What makes them worse, than, for example, cats, deer or wild horses?"
Well, there's the fact that cats, deer and wild horses rarely gnaw wires inside walls or leave feces in suspended ceilings. Oh, and they don't usually carry the Black Death.
One of the best comments I've read here in years.
...YouPorn watches...um...no. Not anymore.
Sorry. Never mind. Damn.
...that there's a sucker born every minute.
Pretty toy versus space travel. Yeah, I'll take Musk for the win on this.
Let's not forget, Edge is managing to outperform Chrome, apparently, even while spending significant resources ratting out its users in every way Microsoft can conceive of.
This is indeed a major accomplishment!
Brilliantly said.
Two different things based on two separate posts. Please try to keep up.
Bush made an evil decision based on cherry-picked data, and sold it to a bunch of Democrats too spineless to call him on it.
Nobody's clean here, but Bush and Cheney are the ones with blood on their hands.
And I'm far from "progressive". I'm just not some fascist wanker who would give a pass to the asshats who put nearly five thousand American soldiers in the ground "because oil".
Nice straw man argument. I bet it does just fine with the other morons in the conservative echo chamber you obviously inhabit.
Ask a hard one. The Democrats have steadfastly maintained the whole collegial solidarity tradition, even though it became obvious not long after the window closed that the Republicans were simply interested in spitting on a hand extended in friendship rather than compromising on anything.
And if you didn't know, there is a window of opportunity for that kind of thing. Years down the road, they can't suddenly decide to charge the ex-President without being accused of political opportunism.
Also, unlike Republicans, Democrats have never cultivated the utter indifference to hypocrisy needed to oppose the right...which would rather destroy the country and rule the ashes than work with their "liberal" opposition on anything at all.
If the Republicans were actually held to account, Bush and Cheney would be in prison right now for war crimes leading to the death of nearly 5,000 American soldiers.
So let's see if I have this straight...you're saying if I break the law for years and years (let's say by parking illegally on somebody else's property), and I finally get caught and forced to pay a penalty for my crime, I should only be held responsible for the last time I committed it?
LOL
It's pretty obvious you have very little knowledge of either socialism or law.
It seems that the sheeple always win.
Lazy, stupid and smug, even as they're being led to the shearing sheds.
Regardless of your personal and professional accomplishments, if you're blind, you couldn't possibly be cool enough to own Apple hardware.
Please try not to be bitter.