He's apparently a corporatocrat, which makes him just as much of a libertarian as most of the people who call themselves libertarian. Don't like it? Separate yourself from that label to escape the association with all the crypto-corporatocrats hiding among you. Sometimes a label is too tainted and has to be discarded.
Strongly disagree. We have the technology, money, and the bit of willpower needed to fix it. I don't like to believe "the future will solve it" but there's a chance that the prices of renewable vs. fossil energy may even fix global warming for us. The only things standing in the way of victory are denialists, their fossil fuel company puppetmasters, and defeatists like you.
He's more level-headed and much more grown-up than Trump, and he has no interest in Russian appeasement. Pence wouldn't wipe his ass with American diplomatic respectability every day and twice on Sunday. He wouldn't back Russia's stance (unintentionally or intentionally) on the EU or NATO.
On the downside, he's almost as fiscally conservative as Trump and MUCH more socially conservative. Trump's a nasty bigot but he doesn't care much about enshrining his bigotry into law outside of national security and immigration policy. Pence, on the other hand, would absolutely go to town on the LGBT community, separation of church and state, and women's rights.
Sure there is, it's quite common to only have one choice for utilities and telecoms. Even when there's more than one, often the offers aren't meaningfully different.
"Authority" does have a specific meaning and I'd argue that it applies when you have a choice to take whatever phone package your local telecom monopoly/duopoly offers so that you can participate in the economy, or go Unabomber.
You have a very discrete (in the mathematical sense) way of thinking about this. There's nothing dishonest about mocking Romney's portrayal of Russia as a belligerent military threat to the USA while at the same time recognizing that Russia's interests conflict with the USA's. There's a whole world of middle ground between "WW2 Germany 2.0" and "BFF! ^_^ "
Don't leave the free market in charge of anything more important than a Twinkie. And keep an eye on 'em while they're making that Twinkie or they'll fill it with sawdust.
I am being truthful. Sometimes the choice is between "yes" to an offer and "the Unabomber option." Whether you call it "authority" or not, that's the "choice" you have.
The truth is in between. Russia isn't a deadly physical threat to the US as Romney believed, but is also not America's friend, as most of today's conservatives believe. They have their own goals which run very much against those of the US and the Western world in general. So you don't need to prepare for a WW2 remake with them, but you also need to not look the other way when they interfere with US elections to put someone more closely aligned with their goals in international politics than America's in the White House.
Only if you consider the "Unabomber option" - living in a shack in the woods and not participating in the economy - a viable option. Otherwise corporations will have PLENTY of authority over your choices.
That list is a joke in itself. The listing for HAARP, for example, suggests that the conspiracy theories of weather control are true which is a bunch of nonsense. It says the NWO conspiracy is real because one guy said it is. The "7th floor group" shadow government is listed as real, even though the only suggesting that it exists is one brief mention from an anonymous source. And it doesn't mention the climate denialism conspiracy or the false STEM shortage conspiracy anywhere.
If we define a confirmed conspiracy to be one that was found to be real even when the companies or governments involved attempted to cover them up, and was suspected to exist while being covered up, there have been probably less than 20 in the Western world since 1900.
Those were mostly rumors at the time, there was no hard evidence that it was bullshit or not. If you want to lump it in with other conspiracy nonsense then the broken clock analogy is the correct one. There should be no merit in being accidentally right with no evidence.
BTW, the DOT, NHTSA and EPA keep those cars from killing us all, and the DOE and FCC allows most electrical devices to work (rather than just the most powerful and/or interference-immune ones). You're welcome!:-)
Gorsuch is a corporatocratic dreamboat in most of his decisions, so it's completely understandable that someone - especially Trump - could've missed one decision that deviates from the norm.
An EDF is literally the closest electric equivalent of a modern airliner's engine, a big ducted fan driven by X, where X is an electric motor in the EDF, or a turbine engine in the turbofan. The range isn't equivalent due mostly to energy density.
If you had an electric motor and a turbine with similar power and similar efficiencies (plausible), and a battery with equal power density to jet fuel, they could put out an equal amount of thrust for an equal amount of time when used to drive an identical ducted fan.
A square, pentagonal, hexagonal, heptagonal, or octagonal runway arrangement would have most of the proposed benefits of this idea without the enormous downsides of trying to land on a curved runway.
The cheerleaders of late-stage capitalism believe that the 1% can provide all the demand the market needs. They'll just buy train-loads of stuff and pack it into warehouses, or commission pyramids to be built in their honor, or something. Presumably at this point workers would have zero leisure time and would not own anything other than what's necessary for basic survival - sort of like a cross between Manna's "Terrafoam" scenario and the reality of "Foxconn city." After all, there's no such thing as insufficient pay, just insufficient work hours and living beyond your means!
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Uh, are you calling Trump a Libertarian?
LOL.
He's apparently a corporatocrat, which makes him just as much of a libertarian as most of the people who call themselves libertarian. Don't like it? Separate yourself from that label to escape the association with all the crypto-corporatocrats hiding among you. Sometimes a label is too tainted and has to be discarded.
Strongly disagree. We have the technology, money, and the bit of willpower needed to fix it. I don't like to believe "the future will solve it" but there's a chance that the prices of renewable vs. fossil energy may even fix global warming for us. The only things standing in the way of victory are denialists, their fossil fuel company puppetmasters, and defeatists like you.
He's more level-headed and much more grown-up than Trump, and he has no interest in Russian appeasement. Pence wouldn't wipe his ass with American diplomatic respectability every day and twice on Sunday. He wouldn't back Russia's stance (unintentionally or intentionally) on the EU or NATO.
On the downside, he's almost as fiscally conservative as Trump and MUCH more socially conservative. Trump's a nasty bigot but he doesn't care much about enshrining his bigotry into law outside of national security and immigration policy. Pence, on the other hand, would absolutely go to town on the LGBT community, separation of church and state, and women's rights.
A good rule of thumb is, the stricter the dress code - the less competent the management is. The hiring process is probably worse.
Counterpoint: IBM's glory days.
Every objective measure is markedly better.
Wages, job availability for that matter, property prices, the same goddamn college debt this thread is about that you casually hand-wave away?
Clearly you're either far too wealthy to understand what most Gen. Y'ers are going through, or you're simply a baby boomer in disguise.
Oh, and you know, we could just ban stuff like this. I'm just saying...
But what about the libertarian feels? Millions must be ground deeper into the hardships of poverty for the protection of those feels.
Yeah that would've stopped the last couple of attackers.
OH WAIT
Dying in one of the Amnesia games or Alien: Isolation can be pretty scary. Have you ever drowned in a Sonic game?
There's no single offer like that.
Sure there is, it's quite common to only have one choice for utilities and telecoms. Even when there's more than one, often the offers aren't meaningfully different.
"Authority" does have a specific meaning and I'd argue that it applies when you have a choice to take whatever phone package your local telecom monopoly/duopoly offers so that you can participate in the economy, or go Unabomber.
You have a very discrete (in the mathematical sense) way of thinking about this. There's nothing dishonest about mocking Romney's portrayal of Russia as a belligerent military threat to the USA while at the same time recognizing that Russia's interests conflict with the USA's. There's a whole world of middle ground between "WW2 Germany 2.0" and "BFF! ^_^ "
Don't leave the free market in charge of anything more important than a Twinkie. And keep an eye on 'em while they're making that Twinkie or they'll fill it with sawdust.
Haha great sig material!
I am being truthful. Sometimes the choice is between "yes" to an offer and "the Unabomber option." Whether you call it "authority" or not, that's the "choice" you have.
The truth is in between. Russia isn't a deadly physical threat to the US as Romney believed, but is also not America's friend, as most of today's conservatives believe. They have their own goals which run very much against those of the US and the Western world in general. So you don't need to prepare for a WW2 remake with them, but you also need to not look the other way when they interfere with US elections to put someone more closely aligned with their goals in international politics than America's in the White House.
Only if you consider the "Unabomber option" - living in a shack in the woods and not participating in the economy - a viable option. Otherwise corporations will have PLENTY of authority over your choices.
That list is a joke in itself. The listing for HAARP, for example, suggests that the conspiracy theories of weather control are true which is a bunch of nonsense. It says the NWO conspiracy is real because one guy said it is. The "7th floor group" shadow government is listed as real, even though the only suggesting that it exists is one brief mention from an anonymous source. And it doesn't mention the climate denialism conspiracy or the false STEM shortage conspiracy anywhere.
If we define a confirmed conspiracy to be one that was found to be real even when the companies or governments involved attempted to cover them up, and was suspected to exist while being covered up, there have been probably less than 20 in the Western world since 1900.
Those were mostly rumors at the time, there was no hard evidence that it was bullshit or not. If you want to lump it in with other conspiracy nonsense then the broken clock analogy is the correct one. There should be no merit in being accidentally right with no evidence.
BTW, the DOT, NHTSA and EPA keep those cars from killing us all, and the DOE and FCC allows most electrical devices to work (rather than just the most powerful and/or interference-immune ones). You're welcome! :-)
We're past there. Bullshit has won the information war and pissed on the grave of truth. Posts in this discussion already show it.
So this one wingnut is right and all other current, and perhaps all past, supreme court justices are wrong?
Gorsuch is a corporatocratic dreamboat in most of his decisions, so it's completely understandable that someone - especially Trump - could've missed one decision that deviates from the norm.
There is, it's called a high-bandwidth VPN connection.
An EDF is literally the closest electric equivalent of a modern airliner's engine, a big ducted fan driven by X, where X is an electric motor in the EDF, or a turbine engine in the turbofan. The range isn't equivalent due mostly to energy density.
If you had an electric motor and a turbine with similar power and similar efficiencies (plausible), and a battery with equal power density to jet fuel, they could put out an equal amount of thrust for an equal amount of time when used to drive an identical ducted fan.
There's a 45% efficient ICE!?!? I thought they topped out at around 35%.
A square, pentagonal, hexagonal, heptagonal, or octagonal runway arrangement would have most of the proposed benefits of this idea without the enormous downsides of trying to land on a curved runway.
The cheerleaders of late-stage capitalism believe that the 1% can provide all the demand the market needs. They'll just buy train-loads of stuff and pack it into warehouses, or commission pyramids to be built in their honor, or something. Presumably at this point workers would have zero leisure time and would not own anything other than what's necessary for basic survival - sort of like a cross between Manna's "Terrafoam" scenario and the reality of "Foxconn city." After all, there's no such thing as insufficient pay, just insufficient work hours and living beyond your means!