Hell, we aren't even definitively sure how to test it in known living creatures - even once we have learned to speak to. The classic test was showing them a mirror and asking them who they see - if they recognize themselves, then that's a "yes" to self-aware...
Except nobody considered that it is also just as much a vision test - and we could have lots of false negatives because "self-recognition" and "self-awareness" are not the same thing and even if they were "self-recognition" and "recognizing the image in a mirror" are even more different things.
Carrying weight is not the same "convincing" - it's just a step in that process. In the end, how convincing it is - and how deserving somebody is of a second chance largely comes down to how sincere their remorse it. Since we haven't yet developed mind-reading technology, gauging that is by necessity a subjective thing. Some are more easily convinced, some less easily - but there is a point where the majority of people would feel that it really does look like the efforts are sincere.
Actually electric cars are cleaner even on a fossil grid because they are so much more energy efficient. So you still produce far less CO2 per mile driven. But that aside yes we need to go for cleaner grids as well. There I have a bit of an advantage over you though. About 90% of the power in my city is nuclear. Solar is of course ideal and you can do that yourself.
Because it would need to be about 30 dollars more before the cost of gas even begins to approach the externalities you inflict on everybody else when you buy it.
>And how will that do anything other than raise fuel prices even more? Oh right, it fills the states coffers.
How does punishing murderers do anything but cost taxpayers money ?
But if this is found to be a crime and they are convicted, they would be forced to stop lying - and lying here would include lobbying politicians to lie for them.
You have an issue with fuel prices ? Time to consider an electric car maybe ?
If he was, then he should be charged with conspiracy to commit murder. And you know what, if he was charged, convicted, sentenced and afterward spend decades genuinely atoning.... that would STILL carry a lot of weight.
If his family is minors then that cannot happen since minors dont pay tax. If adults let them earn an income same as everybody else. The few that is left is why we have social safety nets.
Well, clown cars do get funnier the more clowns you stuff into them.. hence allowing everybody who even smelled like a republican candidate a chance to get in.
>the use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims.
Of course, Noam Chomsky would point out that the vast majority of US military operations in the past 100 years fit this definition (and indeed, fails to fit the definition of anything else).
The KKK is not a political party - if they were, that would be a different matter.
Indeed it would be better. Rightwing crazies in small parties may be annoying, but they are also relatively harmless... at least, unless everything else go horribly wrong and they win a number of parliamentary seats, form a coalition with the mainstream conservatives which sees their leader made president in an effort to absorb them into the mainstream and defuse the situation, then the chancelor dies and the newly appointed president appoints himself to that office as well effectively removing all checks and balances and becoming the absolute ruler and then they haul off every liberal and socialist in government one night and shoot them in the head... but in fairness that's only happened once.
Not to mention that, in fact, coal is a teeny-tiny employer in the American economy and always has been. There are already more green energy jobs in America than there were coal jobs even at it's height.
Mind you, that is the more salubrious term, those who are still angry about the Anglo Boer War 102 years later... well their preferred term for an Englishman translates as "salty dick head".
That seems unlikely considering that around the world the term is used by people of Dutch and German ancestry to refer to people of British ancestry and has been that way since the early colonial days.
Here at the South End of Africa "rooineck" is still a common slang term for "Englishman".
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Hell, we aren't even definitively sure how to test it in known living creatures - even once we have learned to speak to.
The classic test was showing them a mirror and asking them who they see - if they recognize themselves, then that's a "yes" to self-aware...
Except nobody considered that it is also just as much a vision test - and we could have lots of false negatives because "self-recognition" and "self-awareness" are not the same thing and even if they were "self-recognition" and "recognizing the image in a mirror" are even more different things.
Carrying weight is not the same "convincing" - it's just a step in that process. In the end, how convincing it is - and how deserving somebody is of a second chance largely comes down to how sincere their remorse it. Since we haven't yet developed mind-reading technology, gauging that is by necessity a subjective thing. Some are more easily convinced, some less easily - but there is a point where the majority of people would feel that it really does look like the efforts are sincere.
Actually electric cars are cleaner even on a fossil grid because they are so much more energy efficient. So you still produce far less CO2 per mile driven.
But that aside yes we need to go for cleaner grids as well. There I have a bit of an advantage over you though. About 90% of the power in my city is nuclear. Solar is of course ideal and you can do that yourself.
Because it would need to be about 30 dollars more before the cost of gas even begins to approach the externalities you inflict on everybody else when you buy it.
>And how will that do anything other than raise fuel prices even more? Oh right, it fills the states coffers.
How does punishing murderers do anything but cost taxpayers money ?
But if this is found to be a crime and they are convicted, they would be forced to stop lying - and lying here would include lobbying politicians to lie for them.
You have an issue with fuel prices ? Time to consider an electric car maybe ?
Making thermite is not an unavoidable consequence of using a ladder for it's stated purpose.
Global warming is an unavoidable consequence of using ExxonMobil's primary product for it's stated purpose.
Now whether the DA will have the balls to actually prosecute is up for grabs, but what they did is most certainly a crime, several crimes in fact.
If he was, then he should be charged with conspiracy to commit murder.
And you know what, if he was charged, convicted, sentenced and afterward spend decades genuinely atoning.... that would STILL carry a lot of weight.
If his family is minors then that cannot happen since minors dont pay tax.
If adults let them earn an income same as everybody else.
The few that is left is why we have social safety nets.
No. I don't believe those things were permissable. So why would I defend them ?
Well the gp didnt say only good changes
Well, clown cars do get funnier the more clowns you stuff into them.. hence allowing everybody who even smelled like a republican candidate a chance to get in.
Assuming your right... why should we care what the tiny minority destined to acquire ten million they didnt earn have to say ?
The US version was instituted at a different time and for a different reason. The one I cited.
You must have missed when anonymous went after (and released the details of a large number of) ISIS members.
As for going against rightwing organisations, if your goal is to attack evil, that's a pretty good way to recognize it.
Considering they are members of a top-secret all-male society ... they may actually be MORE likely to be gay...
>right-wing republican white man, but not a racist
That's a bit like saying "If somebody is employed by wallmart but doesn't work for for wallmart".
>the use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims.
Of course, Noam Chomsky would point out that the vast majority of US military operations in the past 100 years fit this definition (and indeed, fails to fit the definition of anything else).
The KKK is not a political party - if they were, that would be a different matter.
Indeed it would be better. Rightwing crazies in small parties may be annoying, but they are also relatively harmless... at least, unless everything else go horribly wrong and they win a number of parliamentary seats, form a coalition with the mainstream conservatives which sees their leader made president in an effort to absorb them into the mainstream and defuse the situation, then the chancelor dies and the newly appointed president appoints himself to that office as well effectively removing all checks and balances and becoming the absolute ruler and then they haul off every liberal and socialist in government one night and shoot them in the head... but in fairness that's only happened once.
Now that is a convincing argument. Saying you renounce or support something is meaningless, and doubly-so if you're a politician.
Actually DOING something to stand by the statement -over a long period - that carries weight.
Would that be Barney Frankly or Benjamin Frankly ?
Yeah, we need to strike while the iron is hot.
>the war on coal decimating employment
Not to mention that, in fact, coal is a teeny-tiny employer in the American economy and always has been. There are already more green energy jobs in America than there were coal jobs even at it's height.
Mind you, that is the more salubrious term, those who are still angry about the Anglo Boer War 102 years later... well their preferred term for an Englishman translates as "salty dick head".
I wonder how they know that...
That seems unlikely considering that around the world the term is used by people of Dutch and German ancestry to refer to people of British ancestry and has been that way since the early colonial days.
Here at the South End of Africa "rooineck" is still a common slang term for "Englishman".
Well the list so far has included several prominent senators and congressmen. Want to guess which party they belong to ?