You say the right supports green energy, but doesn't like the subsidies that green energy gets. I feel this is a bit disingenuous - if the right has a problem with subsidies, why is it that they aren't equally against fossil fuels, which receive 5-10x higher subsidies than renewables?
Also might want to work on reading comprehension. I didn't say anything about algae not consuming CO2. I said you should look into the timescales of carbon fluxes.
Or is it the other way - nerdier/geekier guys tend to not have kids until later in life, so the kid's personality is influenced by these social factors rather than simply just the age of the parent.
I like how you put a link to an article that completely contradicts your claim that Hitler was hard-left. How do you handle all of the cognitive dissonance?
I guess from your perspective, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a bastion of democracy as well...
In most countries in Europe, the lines are owned by a single authority, but they must lease the lines with equal access to any provider who wishes to be an ISP. So in France, you have SFR, Bouygues, Orange, Free, Sosh, Numericable, etc which will provide internet service to pretty much anywhere in the country for a very reasonable price (100Mbps for 30€, which also includes TV and free calling to 120 or so countries).
No I'm not suggesting that submarines are trivial to find, but what I am suggesting is that non-silent submarines are not hard to find. Plant noise of modern nuclear subs is way below the noise floor in the ocean. The engine noise of a `60s diesel Russian sub like the North Koreans have is not. So they'll stand out like a sore thumb on SOSUS anytime they fire those engines up.
Trust me I understand sonar. Just because something is noisy doesn't mean you can't extract a signal from it, especially with modern signal processing. If sonar was so faulty, they certainly wouldn't have invested so much into making subs as silent as possible during the cold war.
Might want to do some brushing up on your history.
First, FDR certainly did not express open admiration for Hitler and Mussolini.
Second, trust busting happened under a different Roosevelt (hopefully you knew there were two). Teddy Roosevelt was president at the turn of the century, and was a Republican, so really has nothing to do with your screed on FDR.
Getting basic facts wrong like this makes it really difficult to give credence to any of your other ideas.
What are you talking about? The market absolutely causes monopolies! Historically it has been the government who has had to come in to bust up the monopolies. Go look at what Roosevelt had to do in the early part of last century to prevent monopolies from screwing the country.
I do agree with you that cable and internet service is no more a natural monopoly than apples or bolts, but with a caveat. If the actual copper/fiber is treated as a utility (like water/sewage pipes, power lines, etc), then there is no reason why multiple companies shouldn't be able to compete to sell me their internet/cable service over the same set of lines that go to my house. But if you are suggesting that Time Warner, Comcast, etc all run separate lines to my house to compete, then that makes as much sense as advocating for 'competing' roadways. It just won't work.
"Anthropogenic forcing is still dominant -- it's still the key player," said first author Qinghua Ding, a climate scientist at the University of California Santa Barbara who holds an affiliate position at the UW, where he began the work as a research scientist in the UW's Applied Physics Laboratory. "But we found that natural variability has helped to accelerate this melting, especially over the past 20 years."...
"In the long term, say 50 to 100 years, the natural internal variability will be overwhelmed by increasing greenhouse gases," Ding said. "But to predict what will happen in the next few decades, we need to understand both parts."
Are you arguing for or against libertarianism here? Because the top ten countries listed there have a ton of regulation and government controls and 'meddling' in comparison to the bottom ten. So it would seem that strong government, subsidies and regulations are in fact better for liberty and freedom than a non-existent or weak central government.
So what about the all of the unskilled jobs that are essential for a modern society to operate (garbage men, gas station clerks, waiters/waitresses, cooks, drivers, farm laborers, etc)? Do you imply that people in those jobs should accept the fact that in order to survive they need to devote even more of their time to their job, just because a company is too damn cheap to support them?
It seems this is history repeating itself, and we are going back to the time of the industrial revolution and the gilded age, where workers were expected to work 16 hours, 6 days a week just to survive.
Please enlighten me how more CO2 available makes it possible to have less H2O to grow. Photosynthesis is 6CO2 + 6H2O -> C6H12O6 + 6O2, so how does more CO2 make that equation work with a smaller amount of available H2O?
I could turn your first sentence back on you... do you have any critical thinking skills whatsoever? Assuming you do, lets use our critical thinking skills to work through this. What does desertification mean? Exactly, it means turning into a desert. So what makes something a desert? No, its not lack of plants; is the lack of something else that plants need. Let me give you a hint, you pointed it out in your own post. Thats right - a desert is where there is very little H2O available.
So the process of desertification doesn't take place because the plants go away, rather its the plants going away because the water is going away. In a warming world, rain bands will shift locations, leading to a huge reduction in rainfall in some areas, which leads to desertification.
There are plenty of other people in CA doing exactly the same 'cool stuff' that Uber is trying to do. In fact, there are 20 companies in CA who are using the Autonomous Vehicle Testing Permit system from the DMV, including VW, Ford, Honda, Google, Tesla, BMW, NVIDIA and more (list here https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/...). Clearly the regulations are not so burdensome that they are limiting this type of testing. They mostly require reporting to the DMV of any accidents involving the autonomous vehicles.
The bigger problem here is the standard Uber business practice of 'we don't need to follow the rules' that we've seen before. And its not the first time they've been affected by that stance, and it certainly makes them look like petulant whiners when they don't get their way, even when breaking the law.
They pay the majority of taxes in terms of total sum, true. However, on an individual level, the rich pay a much lower percent of their income to taxes than many other income levels.
I also live in Colorado (but spent most of my life in the Midwest). I have to say that Colorado drivers are horrible. I see Colorado plates doing the exact thing you describe above, as well as a myriad of other idiotic things all the time. And for a state that gets a fair amount of snow, it is unforgivable how bad people here drive in the snow.
I don't remember a time when iTunes was ever a respectable music manager and player. I remember trying it in the early days, but soon went back to just using WinAmp and organized folders in Explorer to play and manage my music... Unfortunately now with iDevices, I'm forced to use the abomination that is iTunes...
The funny thing is that this is almost a reflection of the West's understanding of how Al Qaeda works. How long did we focus on going after Bin Laden or any of the other top guys, as if taking out those guys is sufficient to wipe out an entire ideology. Likely the mis-targeted drone strikes and other operations undertaken to eliminate these figureheads only served to bring more to the extremist ideology.
There's an interesting sci-fi book on this very subject. "The Canticle for Leibowitz" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz) was written in the '60s and takes place at a Catholic monastery in the Southwest US at some unknown date in the future after a nuclear war wiped out civilization. The monks of this monastery are charged with preserving the knowledge of the previous civilization until the world is again ready for it.
Thats a good sentiment, but it doesn't hold in reality. Do you think the majority of people being hassled by the police have resources (time and money) to spend days/weeks in court, buy a good lawyer, miss work, etc to fight an improper arrest?
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You say the right supports green energy, but doesn't like the subsidies that green energy gets. I feel this is a bit disingenuous - if the right has a problem with subsidies, why is it that they aren't equally against fossil fuels, which receive 5-10x higher subsidies than renewables?
Also might want to work on reading comprehension. I didn't say anything about algae not consuming CO2. I said you should look into the timescales of carbon fluxes.
Or is it the other way - nerdier/geekier guys tend to not have kids until later in life, so the kid's personality is influenced by these social factors rather than simply just the age of the parent.
Might want to do some research on the timescales of various carbon fluxes...
I like how you put a link to an article that completely contradicts your claim that Hitler was hard-left. How do you handle all of the cognitive dissonance?
I guess from your perspective, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a bastion of democracy as well...
In most countries in Europe, the lines are owned by a single authority, but they must lease the lines with equal access to any provider who wishes to be an ISP. So in France, you have SFR, Bouygues, Orange, Free, Sosh, Numericable, etc which will provide internet service to pretty much anywhere in the country for a very reasonable price (100Mbps for 30€, which also includes TV and free calling to 120 or so countries).
No I'm not suggesting that submarines are trivial to find, but what I am suggesting is that non-silent submarines are not hard to find. Plant noise of modern nuclear subs is way below the noise floor in the ocean. The engine noise of a `60s diesel Russian sub like the North Koreans have is not. So they'll stand out like a sore thumb on SOSUS anytime they fire those engines up.
Trust me I understand sonar. Just because something is noisy doesn't mean you can't extract a signal from it, especially with modern signal processing. If sonar was so faulty, they certainly wouldn't have invested so much into making subs as silent as possible during the cold war.
You should take some time to read up on SOSUS...
Might want to do some brushing up on your history.
First, FDR certainly did not express open admiration for Hitler and Mussolini.
Second, trust busting happened under a different Roosevelt (hopefully you knew there were two). Teddy Roosevelt was president at the turn of the century, and was a Republican, so really has nothing to do with your screed on FDR.
Getting basic facts wrong like this makes it really difficult to give credence to any of your other ideas.
What are you talking about? The market absolutely causes monopolies! Historically it has been the government who has had to come in to bust up the monopolies. Go look at what Roosevelt had to do in the early part of last century to prevent monopolies from screwing the country.
I do agree with you that cable and internet service is no more a natural monopoly than apples or bolts, but with a caveat. If the actual copper/fiber is treated as a utility (like water/sewage pipes, power lines, etc), then there is no reason why multiple companies shouldn't be able to compete to sell me their internet/cable service over the same set of lines that go to my house. But if you are suggesting that Time Warner, Comcast, etc all run separate lines to my house to compete, then that makes as much sense as advocating for 'competing' roadways. It just won't work.
Just a bad summary... this article is better: https://www.sciencedaily.com/r...
"Anthropogenic forcing is still dominant -- it's still the key player," said first author Qinghua Ding, a climate scientist at the University of California Santa Barbara who holds an affiliate position at the UW, where he began the work as a research scientist in the UW's Applied Physics Laboratory. "But we found that natural variability has helped to accelerate this melting, especially over the past 20 years." ...
"In the long term, say 50 to 100 years, the natural internal variability will be overwhelmed by increasing greenhouse gases," Ding said. "But to predict what will happen in the next few decades, we need to understand both parts."
"Make America whoosh again"
Are you arguing for or against libertarianism here? Because the top ten countries listed there have a ton of regulation and government controls and 'meddling' in comparison to the bottom ten. So it would seem that strong government, subsidies and regulations are in fact better for liberty and freedom than a non-existent or weak central government.
So what about the all of the unskilled jobs that are essential for a modern society to operate (garbage men, gas station clerks, waiters/waitresses, cooks, drivers, farm laborers, etc)? Do you imply that people in those jobs should accept the fact that in order to survive they need to devote even more of their time to their job, just because a company is too damn cheap to support them?
It seems this is history repeating itself, and we are going back to the time of the industrial revolution and the gilded age, where workers were expected to work 16 hours, 6 days a week just to survive.
Please enlighten me how more CO2 available makes it possible to have less H2O to grow. Photosynthesis is 6CO2 + 6H2O -> C6H12O6 + 6O2, so how does more CO2 make that equation work with a smaller amount of available H2O?
I could turn your first sentence back on you... do you have any critical thinking skills whatsoever? Assuming you do, lets use our critical thinking skills to work through this. What does desertification mean? Exactly, it means turning into a desert. So what makes something a desert? No, its not lack of plants; is the lack of something else that plants need. Let me give you a hint, you pointed it out in your own post. Thats right - a desert is where there is very little H2O available.
So the process of desertification doesn't take place because the plants go away, rather its the plants going away because the water is going away. In a warming world, rain bands will shift locations, leading to a huge reduction in rainfall in some areas, which leads to desertification.
There are plenty of other people in CA doing exactly the same 'cool stuff' that Uber is trying to do. In fact, there are 20 companies in CA who are using the Autonomous Vehicle Testing Permit system from the DMV, including VW, Ford, Honda, Google, Tesla, BMW, NVIDIA and more (list here https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/...). Clearly the regulations are not so burdensome that they are limiting this type of testing. They mostly require reporting to the DMV of any accidents involving the autonomous vehicles.
The bigger problem here is the standard Uber business practice of 'we don't need to follow the rules' that we've seen before. And its not the first time they've been affected by that stance, and it certainly makes them look like petulant whiners when they don't get their way, even when breaking the law.
Yeah but synthetic diamonds have a sterile look to them. I prefer the 'warmer' look of natural diamonds....
(Is diamondphile a thing yet?)
They pay the majority of taxes in terms of total sum, true. However, on an individual level, the rich pay a much lower percent of their income to taxes than many other income levels.
I also live in Colorado (but spent most of my life in the Midwest). I have to say that Colorado drivers are horrible. I see Colorado plates doing the exact thing you describe above, as well as a myriad of other idiotic things all the time. And for a state that gets a fair amount of snow, it is unforgivable how bad people here drive in the snow.
I don't remember a time when iTunes was ever a respectable music manager and player. I remember trying it in the early days, but soon went back to just using WinAmp and organized folders in Explorer to play and manage my music... Unfortunately now with iDevices, I'm forced to use the abomination that is iTunes...
The funny thing is that this is almost a reflection of the West's understanding of how Al Qaeda works. How long did we focus on going after Bin Laden or any of the other top guys, as if taking out those guys is sufficient to wipe out an entire ideology. Likely the mis-targeted drone strikes and other operations undertaken to eliminate these figureheads only served to bring more to the extremist ideology.
There's an interesting sci-fi book on this very subject. "The Canticle for Leibowitz" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz) was written in the '60s and takes place at a Catholic monastery in the Southwest US at some unknown date in the future after a nuclear war wiped out civilization. The monks of this monastery are charged with preserving the knowledge of the previous civilization until the world is again ready for it.
Thats a good sentiment, but it doesn't hold in reality. Do you think the majority of people being hassled by the police have resources (time and money) to spend days/weeks in court, buy a good lawyer, miss work, etc to fight an improper arrest?