Yes, we should just let everyone burn cheap dirty fuel without any let or hindrance. Why should they pay anything for the health costs to the community from people who killed by cancer, the changes in climate, or anything else? It's only those commie greenies who think polluters should have to pay for the harm they do. We all know that if we just let business make the maximum profit in the shortest time then everything else will solve itself.
Well, here's your first problem. You don't get to "let" me do shit. I can burn plastic bags in my back yard all day long and flip you the bird as you drive by in your Prius. You can whine and lament it all day long if you want, but you're not going to be able to change everyone on earths fundamental right to do whatever they want with their own property in time to stop Global warming. In fact, it's already too late. So how about you stop pushing that rock up that hill and find a more sensible approach that might actually make a difference. Nuclear power has 0 CO2 emissions... support that, and support Yukka mountain if you really care about slowing global warming. Support upgrading 50 year old dirty coal plants to cleaner more modern technologies. Is a new Coal plant as clean as nuclear? No... but it's a lot better than the local community being crippled into inaction for 20 years due to lawsuits and letting the plant get worse and worse... cause that's what's going on right now.
Whereas climate change deniers will just find some silly statement some environmentalist said and try to use it to discredit everything any environmentalist ever said. So they can go back to using "plain old lightbulbs", driving their SUVs, and not giving a crap about the next generation.
So you've got Environmentalists and Climate change deniers listed there... what about the other 99.999% of the population who doesn't care either way? They don't give a crap about the next generation either. So how are you going to deal with that? Raise the price of Gas? Where? The US? That's fine, China will be happy to burn all the fossil fuels that we don't. This planet is swimming in hydro-carbons. For the majority of it's existence the earth has been a much warmer, wetter place. Humans are greedy, cheap and selfish... you need to appeal to those traits if you want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. There are technologies that greedy, cheap and selfish people would be ok with to provide their power that don't emit as much CO2 as we're emitting now. But you need to get off your high horse and do what you can do... and stop dreaming of the perfect solution. It's not going to happen.
Microsoft has already invented this (sort of), no-one really used it because it was slow, buggy, and made your entire computer run like shit. But that didn't stop them from patenting it. So rest assure, Bill Gates will get the money anyways. And now you know why Microsoft is still in business and will always be in business as long as there isn't any patent reform.
I'm sorry that you don't understand how this works. Let me explain it to you. The publisher pays a set fee for a "review" often that fee is laundered via advertizing revenue. The publisher overpays for banner adds on the site, etc... The reviewer can review the game as he/she sees fit. This keeps it all legal and legit. If they paid for particular rating that would not necessarily be illegal or even immoral (in their eyes) but it would require a certain amount of disclosure that they'd rather not get into.
Instead, what happens is, the publisher pays for reviews... but they are not going to go to a site that consistently gives them bad reviews. As a result, if the review site wants to keep their add revenue up, they need to be giving consistently good reviews to AAA titles that pay for all of their ad revenue. Giving a bad review to a game that's clearly having big trouble isn't going to look all that bad to the publisher, especially if, after the publisher issues a patch, the reviewer raves again about all the improvements. Which I'm sure we'll see relatively soon.
By the way, this method of fake reviews goes on for just about every product sold. The only reviewer you can really trust is consumer reports and maybe NPR.
There's no reason to believe that life couldn't exist in the earths core. It wouldn't be anything we'd recognize, but the fact that we have recognizable bacteria practically living on the edge of lava vents in the ocean should give you a clue. It'd be a stretch but no-where near as impossible as you're making it seem.
ironically, it's usually the people that hate the adds the most that they are most effective against. I work with marketing people, I see it and am astonished by it every day. People that opt out of marketing campaigns are usually the hottest leads.
Because dark matter isn't dark because it doesn't give off light. It's dark because it doesn't even interact with normal matter in any other way than gravitation. We can see the effects of its mass, but it does not occlude stars behind it, the light and radio waves passes right through as if it didn't exist.
Before we laud modern entertainment for how violent it is, lets remember what was considered normal entertainment in the past: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_baiting
I adopted a kid from outside the country... trust me, you get to know what is and is not international when you adopt. Most of the airport from the plane to the customs desk is "Border" Once they search your shit and you're through, you're "in country" In the united states, it's really nice. They have colored lines on the floor... once you're over the line, you're in the US. Most people don't notice. But when you have a screaming kid that doesn't speak your language, thinks you just kid-napped them and has a terrible case of Giardia, you become acutely aware of exactly where the united states border begins and ends.
There is a copyright on DNA. Many of the HIV drugs out now are based on the gene sequencing of several African prostitutes that had natural immunity to the disease. Their DNA was sequenced and then copyrighted by the drug companies in question with no reimbursement to the prostitutes what-so-ever.
Agreed, I installed Ubuntu not so long ago on my XBMC PC... and when Unity popped up I was like "What on earth is this?!?" I couldn't figure out how to navigate it. I could have spent a while getting used to it, but why bother? I formatted and had another distro on the machine in less time than it would have taken me to learn Unity. I've no interest in using a Tablet UI on a desktop. There should be a pop up that asks "Is this a tablet? y/n" and be done with it.
And that lava was probably from their rocket-ships taking off when they left the planet to colonize earth. I'm pretty sure I saw the ruins of Atlantis in one of those pics...
My mother has worked in the medical industry her whole life on the administrative side. Since I was a kid, she would always go on and on about "always get your full medical record, check it for errors. Always ask for an itemized bill and check it as well." Then, a few years ago she got cancer, and thankfully survived and is cancer free after several surgeries and radiation treatment. And guess what... her persistence paid off. She again asked for an itemized bill, something that, over the years they've gotten more and more reluctant to give us... and the hospital had literally double charged her for everything. 2 pillows, 2 blankets, 2 room stays. They tried to argue this with her, but she had experience in the medical field and pointed out to them that if she had received the dosage of general anesthetic listed on the bill she'd be dead. The insurance company hadn't even caught it. She saved them hundreds of thousands of dollars, and they sent her a letter thanking her for her diligence. She only saved herself a few hundred dollars in co-pays, but she was proud none-the-less. Your medical record is yours, not the doctors. You should have full access to everything in it, and should be able to remove anything that you feel is inaccurate at will.
As someone that was involved with a legal case with campus police, I can assure you that United States Universities do in fact have their own police forces. Not only that but they are afforded special treatment in the court system. They not only enforce the ordinances on campus... they write them. Campuses are often HUGE and take up hundreds or thousands of acres, even if the buildings themselves don't. People like to donate land to universities in their wills. Because the campus police can write their own ordinances, they do so at will. This was what my court case was about. The changed a rule the same day I was charged, just so they could charge me... or at least "someone" and I was the unlucky sap. They were trying to prove a point. But I fought it so vigorously (because I was furious) the case wasn't resolved for almost a year and nearly everyone forgot about it. I lost in the end and the Judge thought the whole thing was ridiculous so my fine was almost nothing.
The one thing I learned in college? Fuck the police.
Any life that is or may have existed on mars at any point in the past is almost certainly already related to life of earth. Either mars seeded earth or the other way around. We'll never know... and if we find life on mars we'll never be totally sure it wasn't some mutated form of bacteria that came off a probe in the early stages of the space program. Because, like I said, it's almost certainly going to be very earth like. How long can you keep mars sterile for? It's the only planet in the solar system that has even a remote chance of humans living on it in the near future. We can spend the next 100 years looking for bacteria that may or may not exist, or we can just say fuck it and put bacteria there on purpose and use the planet for something. The knowledge that bacteria existed on Mars at some point is kind of a moot point. We KNOW life is not unique to this planet. We're just waiting around for proof. But that's just an academic endeavor. We've no real need for the proof.
Unfortunately, the second we start messing with Mars, earth hippies will have a fit and then God help us all.
More IS needed. That's the point. They are completely ignoring the US constitution. This violates multiple sections of the constitution, the bill of rights, and even federal law and executive order. The very idea that the US government can murder a US citizen without any judicial oversight is fucking ridiculous at its face. There is no justification what-so-ever for such an act. Even when a police officer shoots and kills a person that was about to hurt someone else there is an investigation and often a trial.
I suspect what the administration is afraid of is saying they wont kill US citizens with a drone... then 10 years from now terrorist will hijack another plane, they'll have a drone in the area and will not be able to shoot it down. There are better ways to deal with this sort of situation. They need to pass new legislation, have it reviewed by congress, etc... Having the open ended power to kill whomever you want, in secret, with no oversight at all is extremely dangerous. More dangerous to this country than all of the terrorists in the world combined.
The Executive branch believes that tribunals are not even necessary.
“In the Department’s view, a lethal operation conducted against a U.S. citizen whose conduct poses an imminent threat of violent attack against the United States would be a legitimate act of national self-defense that would not violate the assassination ban. Similarly, the use of lethal force, consistent with the laws of war, against an individual who is a legitimate military target would be lawful and would not violate the assassination ban.”
An administration official simply has to believe the target is an "imminent threat" to the united states. They need not ask anyone.
Even an individual isn't allowed to rant about the lizard men with a megaphone at 3 AM.
As a former resident of the Lakeview Apartment complex and participant in frequent phone calls to local officials in regards to afore mention megaphone, I can assure you that a sufficiently coherent individual with paranoid schizophrenia can, in fact, rant about whatever she chooses at 3am with, in this case, a P.A. system in her livingroom without being arrested.
They get them to. By the pallet. We don't want them any more than the public does. They used to drop them off at everyones desks until it became such a common complaint that the facilities guys receive the pallet, never even unwrap it and push it strait into the dumpster. Phonebooks are created and distributed by a select few companies who lobby local officials to keep decades old laws in place that require phone companies continue to supply them with data and allow the delivery of their "product"
Remember: Phonebooks don't come from the phone company. They are separate entities. Some are owned by phone companies in part or whole, but rarely is the phone-book you received produced by your actual phone company.
If a detergent commercial would include lies of such magnitude, they'd be banned from tv.
Um... have you ever seen this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jkwQV_5Kb0 That stuff literally eats holes in your close. And that dude was on so much blow while he was doing these commercials he had a heart attack and died. TV = Lies
I don't care how they make money. I don't care if being unable to read my mail would make gmail unprofitable (which I highly doubt) They shouldn't be doing it. Period.
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Yes, we should just let everyone burn cheap dirty fuel without any let or hindrance. Why should they pay anything for the health costs to the community from people who killed by cancer, the changes in climate, or anything else? It's only those commie greenies who think polluters should have to pay for the harm they do. We all know that if we just let business make the maximum profit in the shortest time then everything else will solve itself.
Well, here's your first problem. You don't get to "let" me do shit. I can burn plastic bags in my back yard all day long and flip you the bird as you drive by in your Prius. You can whine and lament it all day long if you want, but you're not going to be able to change everyone on earths fundamental right to do whatever they want with their own property in time to stop Global warming. In fact, it's already too late. So how about you stop pushing that rock up that hill and find a more sensible approach that might actually make a difference. Nuclear power has 0 CO2 emissions... support that, and support Yukka mountain if you really care about slowing global warming. Support upgrading 50 year old dirty coal plants to cleaner more modern technologies. Is a new Coal plant as clean as nuclear? No... but it's a lot better than the local community being crippled into inaction for 20 years due to lawsuits and letting the plant get worse and worse... cause that's what's going on right now.
Whereas climate change deniers will just find some silly statement some environmentalist said and try to use it to discredit everything any environmentalist ever said. So they can go back to using "plain old lightbulbs", driving their SUVs, and not giving a crap about the next generation.
So you've got Environmentalists and Climate change deniers listed there... what about the other 99.999% of the population who doesn't care either way? They don't give a crap about the next generation either. So how are you going to deal with that? Raise the price of Gas? Where? The US? That's fine, China will be happy to burn all the fossil fuels that we don't. This planet is swimming in hydro-carbons. For the majority of it's existence the earth has been a much warmer, wetter place. Humans are greedy, cheap and selfish... you need to appeal to those traits if you want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. There are technologies that greedy, cheap and selfish people would be ok with to provide their power that don't emit as much CO2 as we're emitting now. But you need to get off your high horse and do what you can do... and stop dreaming of the perfect solution. It's not going to happen.
Any game where one of the players brothers works for casino security?
Microsoft has already invented this (sort of), no-one really used it because it was slow, buggy, and made your entire computer run like shit. But that didn't stop them from patenting it. So rest assure, Bill Gates will get the money anyways. And now you know why Microsoft is still in business and will always be in business as long as there isn't any patent reform.
I'm sorry that you don't understand how this works. Let me explain it to you.
The publisher pays a set fee for a "review" often that fee is laundered via advertizing revenue. The publisher overpays for banner adds on the site, etc...
The reviewer can review the game as he/she sees fit. This keeps it all legal and legit. If they paid for particular rating that would not necessarily be illegal or even immoral (in their eyes) but it would require a certain amount of disclosure that they'd rather not get into.
Instead, what happens is, the publisher pays for reviews... but they are not going to go to a site that consistently gives them bad reviews. As a result, if the review site wants to keep their add revenue up, they need to be giving consistently good reviews to AAA titles that pay for all of their ad revenue. Giving a bad review to a game that's clearly having big trouble isn't going to look all that bad to the publisher, especially if, after the publisher issues a patch, the reviewer raves again about all the improvements. Which I'm sure we'll see relatively soon.
By the way, this method of fake reviews goes on for just about every product sold. The only reviewer you can really trust is consumer reports and maybe NPR.
There's no reason to believe that life couldn't exist in the earths core. It wouldn't be anything we'd recognize, but the fact that we have recognizable bacteria practically living on the edge of lava vents in the ocean should give you a clue. It'd be a stretch but no-where near as impossible as you're making it seem.
Or... Reviews are bought and paid for wholesale.
ironically, it's usually the people that hate the adds the most that they are most effective against. I work with marketing people, I see it and am astonished by it every day. People that opt out of marketing campaigns are usually the hottest leads.
Because dark matter isn't dark because it doesn't give off light. It's dark because it doesn't even interact with normal matter in any other way than gravitation. We can see the effects of its mass, but it does not occlude stars behind it, the light and radio waves passes right through as if it didn't exist.
Before we laud modern entertainment for how violent it is, lets remember what was considered normal entertainment in the past:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_baiting
I adopted a kid from outside the country... trust me, you get to know what is and is not international when you adopt. Most of the airport from the plane to the customs desk is "Border" Once they search your shit and you're through, you're "in country" In the united states, it's really nice. They have colored lines on the floor... once you're over the line, you're in the US. Most people don't notice. But when you have a screaming kid that doesn't speak your language, thinks you just kid-napped them and has a terrible case of Giardia, you become acutely aware of exactly where the united states border begins and ends.
There is a copyright on DNA. Many of the HIV drugs out now are based on the gene sequencing of several African prostitutes that had natural immunity to the disease. Their DNA was sequenced and then copyrighted by the drug companies in question with no reimbursement to the prostitutes what-so-ever.
Agreed, I installed Ubuntu not so long ago on my XBMC PC... and when Unity popped up I was like "What on earth is this?!?" I couldn't figure out how to navigate it. I could have spent a while getting used to it, but why bother? I formatted and had another distro on the machine in less time than it would have taken me to learn Unity. I've no interest in using a Tablet UI on a desktop. There should be a pop up that asks "Is this a tablet? y/n" and be done with it.
And that lava was probably from their rocket-ships taking off when they left the planet to colonize earth. I'm pretty sure I saw the ruins of Atlantis in one of those pics...
My mother has worked in the medical industry her whole life on the administrative side. Since I was a kid, she would always go on and on about "always get your full medical record, check it for errors. Always ask for an itemized bill and check it as well." Then, a few years ago she got cancer, and thankfully survived and is cancer free after several surgeries and radiation treatment. And guess what... her persistence paid off. She again asked for an itemized bill, something that, over the years they've gotten more and more reluctant to give us... and the hospital had literally double charged her for everything. 2 pillows, 2 blankets, 2 room stays. They tried to argue this with her, but she had experience in the medical field and pointed out to them that if she had received the dosage of general anesthetic listed on the bill she'd be dead. The insurance company hadn't even caught it. She saved them hundreds of thousands of dollars, and they sent her a letter thanking her for her diligence. She only saved herself a few hundred dollars in co-pays, but she was proud none-the-less. Your medical record is yours, not the doctors. You should have full access to everything in it, and should be able to remove anything that you feel is inaccurate at will.
They could also just put it in one of their subs and sail it into a harbor.
Iraq didn't have a nuke. There's a reason these idiot dictators are so keen on getting them.
As someone that was involved with a legal case with campus police, I can assure you that United States Universities do in fact have their own police forces. Not only that but they are afforded special treatment in the court system. They not only enforce the ordinances on campus... they write them. Campuses are often HUGE and take up hundreds or thousands of acres, even if the buildings themselves don't. People like to donate land to universities in their wills. Because the campus police can write their own ordinances, they do so at will. This was what my court case was about. The changed a rule the same day I was charged, just so they could charge me... or at least "someone" and I was the unlucky sap. They were trying to prove a point. But I fought it so vigorously (because I was furious) the case wasn't resolved for almost a year and nearly everyone forgot about it. I lost in the end and the Judge thought the whole thing was ridiculous so my fine was almost nothing.
The one thing I learned in college? Fuck the police.
Any life that is or may have existed on mars at any point in the past is almost certainly already related to life of earth. Either mars seeded earth or the other way around. We'll never know... and if we find life on mars we'll never be totally sure it wasn't some mutated form of bacteria that came off a probe in the early stages of the space program. Because, like I said, it's almost certainly going to be very earth like. How long can you keep mars sterile for? It's the only planet in the solar system that has even a remote chance of humans living on it in the near future. We can spend the next 100 years looking for bacteria that may or may not exist, or we can just say fuck it and put bacteria there on purpose and use the planet for something. The knowledge that bacteria existed on Mars at some point is kind of a moot point. We KNOW life is not unique to this planet. We're just waiting around for proof. But that's just an academic endeavor. We've no real need for the proof.
Unfortunately, the second we start messing with Mars, earth hippies will have a fit and then God help us all.
More IS needed. That's the point. They are completely ignoring the US constitution. This violates multiple sections of the constitution, the bill of rights, and even federal law and executive order. The very idea that the US government can murder a US citizen without any judicial oversight is fucking ridiculous at its face. There is no justification what-so-ever for such an act. Even when a police officer shoots and kills a person that was about to hurt someone else there is an investigation and often a trial.
I suspect what the administration is afraid of is saying they wont kill US citizens with a drone... then 10 years from now terrorist will hijack another plane, they'll have a drone in the area and will not be able to shoot it down. There are better ways to deal with this sort of situation. They need to pass new legislation, have it reviewed by congress, etc... Having the open ended power to kill whomever you want, in secret, with no oversight at all is extremely dangerous. More dangerous to this country than all of the terrorists in the world combined.
The Executive branch believes that tribunals are not even necessary.
“In the Department’s view, a lethal operation conducted against a U.S. citizen whose conduct poses an imminent threat of violent attack against the United States would be a legitimate act of national self-defense that would not violate the assassination ban. Similarly, the use of lethal force, consistent with the laws of war, against an individual who is a legitimate military target would be lawful and would not violate the assassination ban.”
An administration official simply has to believe the target is an "imminent threat" to the united states. They need not ask anyone.
Even an individual isn't allowed to rant about the lizard men with a megaphone at 3 AM.
As a former resident of the Lakeview Apartment complex and participant in frequent phone calls to local officials in regards to afore mention megaphone, I can assure you that a sufficiently coherent individual with paranoid schizophrenia can, in fact, rant about whatever she chooses at 3am with, in this case, a P.A. system in her livingroom without being arrested.
They get them to. By the pallet. We don't want them any more than the public does. They used to drop them off at everyones desks until it became such a common complaint that the facilities guys receive the pallet, never even unwrap it and push it strait into the dumpster. Phonebooks are created and distributed by a select few companies who lobby local officials to keep decades old laws in place that require phone companies continue to supply them with data and allow the delivery of their "product"
Remember: Phonebooks don't come from the phone company. They are separate entities. Some are owned by phone companies in part or whole, but rarely is the phone-book you received produced by your actual phone company.
If a detergent commercial would include lies of such magnitude, they'd be banned from tv.
Um... have you ever seen this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jkwQV_5Kb0
That stuff literally eats holes in your close. And that dude was on so much blow while he was doing these commercials he had a heart attack and died. TV = Lies
I don't care how they make money. I don't care if being unable to read my mail would make gmail unprofitable (which I highly doubt) They shouldn't be doing it. Period.
The post office could have their mail carriers break into my house and steal my T.V. as well. But they don't. Just like they don't read my postcards.