Mainly because the average person would be loathed to convict a soccer mom with three young kids to 5 years on confinement for sending a "Get Milk on your way home" text, and you can bet that if this went to trial it would be in front of a jury.
The average person is a dangerous jackass who enables other dangerous jackasses then. They should treat that soccer mom at least as harshly as they would a teen texting "Gon get drunk AF tonight!"
There was a scene like this in the movie version of The Circle (dunno if it was in the book, haven't read it). Governments must be harvesting ideas from dystopian sci-fi.
LOL no the only thing that suddenly and mysteriously changed was your perception of the issue. Retroactively. If you can dig deep into your suppressed memories, you might remember free speech cages, and the right wanting to run the bill of rights through a crosscut shredder in the name of stopping those durn Muslim terr'ists under Dubya. Back when the mass surveillance kicked into high gear, that the right hardly ever complained about, even under Obama. Remember that?
Heck, remember when the right had this conspiracy theory that net neutrality was an attempt to bring back the Fairness Doctrine and that was considered a Very Bad Thing? Now the Golfer in Chief talks very plainly about bringing back the Fairness Doctrine in all but name, and nobody on the right bats an eye. One good thing that's come from the Senile Racist Uncle regime is that the shameless, all-encompassing hypocrisy of the right has been laid bare for all to see.
I'm still not sure what the right wants done to prevent boycotts, these days they're always complaining about people's freedom of speech and association when companies are pressured to fire outspoken deplorables in their employ like James Damore and Brendan Eich. Maybe an anti-boycott tribunal to force business relationships to continue when there's evidence of a political motive when ceasing them. Doesn't sound very constitution-friendly to me, but again, the right is very hypocritical about these things. They didn't make a peep about Jemele Hill after all.
Please try a different argument. Trump is even more crooked than Hillary. He's violating the emoluments clause left right and center, and at least took advantage of and encouraged foreign interference, if not actively colluded with the Russians. He's the only president in modern history to not release his tax returns other than the previous most crooked. Not to mention the business practices he's well known for, the sexual assaults he's privately admitted to, and the housing discrimination cases he's settled.
In terms of crookedness, Trump is just Hillary with no restraint, no shame, and a dick. This crooked old bastard will be lucky if he isn't impeached within his first term. He's going down in history as the new most crooked president in any case.
It's easy to tell it's not science because they claim that it is "settled science" and thus immune to debate. Anything immune to debate does not fit in the realm of science. This is your red flag. Science is predictive and disprovable. It is never "settled" and there is no "accepted" position or "provable" hypothesis. Hypotheses can only be disproven, never proven. Watch out.
Total horseshit. There's no point debating the general roundness of the Earth or the flammability of oxygen, for example. These are proven. What you describe is not science, but post-truth nonsense.
Yep, he's evil, and he knows nothing of the difficulties mere mortals face, but he's not stupid. He's a pretty smart guy, and that makes him a towering intellectual giant compared to Trump.
And that's why I'm saying the electoral college is idiotic. Each person's vote should be worth the same, not more if they have many square feet of unoccupied land around them. That is a worse situation than "the most populous areas controlling the whole country" IMO.
Do Americans really deserve this? More voted for Hillary than for Trump. The Commanderp in Tweet only won because their idiotic electoral college system gave him enough advantage to win by a hair.
You're too late, this is already well underway, although not exactly as you'd guessed. Power companies are all following the same playbook, where they make selling power back to the grid, or using very small amounts of power from the grid, hugely unprofitable (with shitty energy resale rates and minimum fees). Going off the grid completely is the only potentially profitable option, which has such a high barrier for entry (when maintaining typical home power) that it dissuades most.
We'll see the next stage when that barrier to entry falls with lower tech costs. I'll expect them to go the "small scale generation isn't safe!" route.
Every other country on the planet would like to thank the USA for giving us such a generous head start in the renewable energy sector. It surely isn't cheap to hang back and use ancient ultra-polluting forms of energy that will soon be legislated out of existence, and we appreciate it!
You seem to be asserting that an irregular temperature spike is happening right now, against the shorter-term factors I linked to earlier and the fact that we should be entering an ice age. Those spikes aren't happening at regular intervals, the interval between them has almost tripled over the last million years, as the article I linked to points out. You're expecting the next one to arrive at the same interval as the last one did, when you should instead expect it to arrive later. This would mean we should be in a cooling period which brings us back in line with the best scientific evidence.
Absolutely wrong, where did you learn this nonsense? We aren't crawling up anything that could appear to be a natural spike, we've made our own spike in what should be a trough:
Do you think your old ICE car has spring water in its gas tank and oil sump? Have you ever seen what an oil refinery or tar sands mine looks like?
The toxic materials needed in electric cars are needed in far smaller amounts and can be recycled. We should welcome their reduced requirement for toxic materials.
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I have heard tales from the elders of this pro-motion and ra-ise...so the legends were true!?!?
It's a trendy new way to say that they own commercial buildings and rent out space in them.
Mainly because the average person would be loathed to convict a soccer mom with three young kids to 5 years on confinement for sending a "Get Milk on your way home" text, and you can bet that if this went to trial it would be in front of a jury.
The average person is a dangerous jackass who enables other dangerous jackasses then. They should treat that soccer mom at least as harshly as they would a teen texting "Gon get drunk AF tonight!"
There was a scene like this in the movie version of The Circle (dunno if it was in the book, haven't read it). Governments must be harvesting ideas from dystopian sci-fi.
Or maybe it was Whatsapp conversation metadata, if this woman uses just one cell phone...
LOL no the only thing that suddenly and mysteriously changed was your perception of the issue. Retroactively. If you can dig deep into your suppressed memories, you might remember free speech cages, and the right wanting to run the bill of rights through a crosscut shredder in the name of stopping those durn Muslim terr'ists under Dubya. Back when the mass surveillance kicked into high gear, that the right hardly ever complained about, even under Obama. Remember that?
Heck, remember when the right had this conspiracy theory that net neutrality was an attempt to bring back the Fairness Doctrine and that was considered a Very Bad Thing? Now the Golfer in Chief talks very plainly about bringing back the Fairness Doctrine in all but name, and nobody on the right bats an eye. One good thing that's come from the Senile Racist Uncle regime is that the shameless, all-encompassing hypocrisy of the right has been laid bare for all to see.
I'm still not sure what the right wants done to prevent boycotts, these days they're always complaining about people's freedom of speech and association when companies are pressured to fire outspoken deplorables in their employ like James Damore and Brendan Eich. Maybe an anti-boycott tribunal to force business relationships to continue when there's evidence of a political motive when ceasing them. Doesn't sound very constitution-friendly to me, but again, the right is very hypocritical about these things. They didn't make a peep about Jemele Hill after all.
TPB is intolerable with JS on. Pop-ups and pop-unders everywhere. So this miner won't bother me, although opt-in mining isn't a bad idea.
TFS says the hole opened September 9th. Notice the increase in Nazi rallies since late last year. Coincidence? I think not!
And what could be more evil than that?
Please try a different argument. Trump is even more crooked than Hillary. He's violating the emoluments clause left right and center, and at least took advantage of and encouraged foreign interference, if not actively colluded with the Russians. He's the only president in modern history to not release his tax returns other than the previous most crooked. Not to mention the business practices he's well known for, the sexual assaults he's privately admitted to, and the housing discrimination cases he's settled.
In terms of crookedness, Trump is just Hillary with no restraint, no shame, and a dick. This crooked old bastard will be lucky if he isn't impeached within his first term. He's going down in history as the new most crooked president in any case.
It's easy to tell it's not science because they claim that it is "settled science" and thus immune to debate. Anything immune to debate does not fit in the realm of science. This is your red flag. Science is predictive and disprovable. It is never "settled" and there is no "accepted" position or "provable" hypothesis. Hypotheses can only be disproven, never proven. Watch out.
Total horseshit. There's no point debating the general roundness of the Earth or the flammability of oxygen, for example. These are proven. What you describe is not science, but post-truth nonsense.
I don't know where you got that bizarro definition. I even checked conservapedia.
Wait a minute, considering who we're talking about, are you sure the avatar wasn't actually connected to an advanced facial motion capture system?
Yep, he's evil, and he knows nothing of the difficulties mere mortals face, but he's not stupid. He's a pretty smart guy, and that makes him a towering intellectual giant compared to Trump.
The way I see it, Trump's harm is a pretty even balance of bald-faced malice and sheer, blind ignorance.
Zuck's harm would be mostly well-disguised malice with a sprinkling of out-of-touch ignorance.
Over time, Zuck proves himself to be more and more like Mom from Futurama.
Can you certify someone as insane when they're tripping balls? If not, he wasn't certifiable :-P
And that's why I'm saying the electoral college is idiotic. Each person's vote should be worth the same, not more if they have many square feet of unoccupied land around them. That is a worse situation than "the most populous areas controlling the whole country" IMO.
Do Americans really deserve this? More voted for Hillary than for Trump. The Commanderp in Tweet only won because their idiotic electoral college system gave him enough advantage to win by a hair.
You're too late, this is already well underway, although not exactly as you'd guessed. Power companies are all following the same playbook, where they make selling power back to the grid, or using very small amounts of power from the grid, hugely unprofitable (with shitty energy resale rates and minimum fees). Going off the grid completely is the only potentially profitable option, which has such a high barrier for entry (when maintaining typical home power) that it dissuades most.
We'll see the next stage when that barrier to entry falls with lower tech costs. I'll expect them to go the "small scale generation isn't safe!" route.
Every other country on the planet would like to thank the USA for giving us such a generous head start in the renewable energy sector. It surely isn't cheap to hang back and use ancient ultra-polluting forms of energy that will soon be legislated out of existence, and we appreciate it!
If everybody takes care of their own problems and nobody takes care of everybody's problems, then everybody dies. See: Tragedy of the commons.
Well whaddaya know, Mike Pence reads Slashdot!
You seem to be asserting that an irregular temperature spike is happening right now, against the shorter-term factors I linked to earlier and the fact that we should be entering an ice age. Those spikes aren't happening at regular intervals, the interval between them has almost tripled over the last million years, as the article I linked to points out. You're expecting the next one to arrive at the same interval as the last one did, when you should instead expect it to arrive later. This would mean we should be in a cooling period which brings us back in line with the best scientific evidence.
Absolutely wrong, where did you learn this nonsense? We aren't crawling up anything that could appear to be a natural spike, we've made our own spike in what should be a trough:
https://www.skepticalscience.c...
The earth should be cooling now, if there were no anthropogenic climate effects.
Do you think your old ICE car has spring water in its gas tank and oil sump? Have you ever seen what an oil refinery or tar sands mine looks like?
The toxic materials needed in electric cars are needed in far smaller amounts and can be recycled. We should welcome their reduced requirement for toxic materials.