When the oil runs out (or we stop buying) the money will run out as well (over there). At that point their economy will collapse, and the poor will end up on our borders as refugees. So make sure we build the walls and guard towers before we stop buying their oil.
Corn is only cheaper than cane sugar because of massive subsidies combined with import duties. The (right wing Democrat) government of the USA should get out of the way and let the free market deal with this issue.
The sea level during the dino years was also rather higher. The great plains of north America formed UNDER a large inland sea. Nature will adapt to higher CO2 levels, as will we. The question is how expensive it will be. The assorted civilizations of central and south America mostly got wiped out by a warmer/dryer climate (the Spanish helped on occasion). If your retirement fund depends on dumping CO2 into the atmosphere then you will be motivated to argue climate change.
melting ice spreads out. The total volume of ice is less but the area of water covered is larger because the ice won't stick together in taller clumps.
Given that the politics of the Democrats and the Republicans are currently close enough to identical that most people couldn't tell the difference, how will voting for either party affect NSA funding? I think you'll need to start a third party before voting alters the situation.
By analyzing the light in the background of a video you can see what is reflected there (the people behind the camera). If someone in the background of a terrorist vid is talking about their next terrorist strike- I'd want to know what he was saying. It's a pre-recorded vid, you can't set up surveillance gear and the vid isn't good enough to show the sound vibrations.
You want the body armour for combat use, so you want an iron man suit. Having powered legs to increase your capacity is useful too, though not as intimidating. As for the batteries- you can run a fuel cell off of diesel using a reformer, and that's easy to get on a battlefield.
How about when you file for a patent it's only a registry, no checks or validity or anything (like now?). And every single time you attempt to use the patent in court it can be challenged (and possibly declared invalid). The government still gets their money, the patent office can continue with their no value added business model, and everyone else can fight the patent trolls in court on an even footing.
And yet the Russian invasion of Georgia is completely ignored. I don't think they even got the lame sanctions Obama paid off the powers that be to support.
We should replace the patent system with a mandatory royalty system. You invent something, everyone can use your discovery but they must pay royalties to you for a fixed time period.
In a world war it's entirely possible for an artillery unit to have tactical nuclear weapons, with the local field commander having the big red button. Of course this isn't a world war, so I expect the big stuff is safely locked away.
Putin (Russia) already has everything they wanted. They wanted to secure the Crimea, and they did. He supports the "Separatists" to:
1-make the Nationalists happy at home (win elections).
2-force Ukraine to join a Russian trade block instead of the EU/west trade block (money).
3-prevent Nato from having military bases on his border(national defence).
We know for a fact that Russia (USSR) has developed working anti-ICBM missile defenses. We know they have some very good scientists, and are good at large problems and know how to keep a secret. The US? Probably not.
1-It would guarantee a full economic embargo from the EU. It's one of the few things that scares the voters enough to make that very painful choice politically viable.
2-They don't need to. They have the military forces to take the entire country easily, why ruin their prize by making the breadbasket of Russia radioactive?
If the police put license plate scanners at every intersection in the city instead of just outside the HQ of every street gang then people might ask why they are wasting taxpayer money on that. It's not the specific data, it's the volume that they are trying to hide.
Life expectancy in Canada(82.5) is longer than in the USA(79.8), so apparently those health care queue's aren't that lethal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
The NSA would love to have access to this, they could run facial recognition and search for people of interest nation wide. It would still be worth it though, just eliminating all the bogus lawsuits against the police would pay for this.
It's not unreasonable opposition, the current fission reactors were built to make nuclear weapons. If they wanted civilian power they would have gone with thorium as it's much cheaper, much safer, and we have much more fuel.
The value of the US dollar is dependent on being the reserve currency of the world. If they lose that the dollar will devalue to peso levels. Oil is just one part of that, not the whole thing.
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When the oil runs out (or we stop buying) the money will run out as well (over there). At that point their economy will collapse, and the poor will end up on our borders as refugees. So make sure we build the walls and guard towers before we stop buying their oil.
Corn is only cheaper than cane sugar because of massive subsidies combined with import duties. The (right wing Democrat) government of the USA should get out of the way and let the free market deal with this issue.
The sea level during the dino years was also rather higher. The great plains of north America formed UNDER a large inland sea. Nature will adapt to higher CO2 levels, as will we. The question is how expensive it will be. The assorted civilizations of central and south America mostly got wiped out by a warmer/dryer climate (the Spanish helped on occasion). If your retirement fund depends on dumping CO2 into the atmosphere then you will be motivated to argue climate change.
melting ice spreads out. The total volume of ice is less but the area of water covered is larger because the ice won't stick together in taller clumps.
They don't know what Snowden took. For a high security the fate of the free world depends on it computer system that's not what I was hoping for.
Given that the politics of the Democrats and the Republicans are currently close enough to identical that most people couldn't tell the difference, how will voting for either party affect NSA funding? I think you'll need to start a third party before voting alters the situation.
The problem with spying on everyone is you don't have any time left to analyze all that data. The NSA is a data broker, not a national defense agency.
By analyzing the light in the background of a video you can see what is reflected there (the people behind the camera). If someone in the background of a terrorist vid is talking about their next terrorist strike- I'd want to know what he was saying. It's a pre-recorded vid, you can't set up surveillance gear and the vid isn't good enough to show the sound vibrations.
You want the body armour for combat use, so you want an iron man suit. Having powered legs to increase your capacity is useful too, though not as intimidating. As for the batteries- you can run a fuel cell off of diesel using a reformer, and that's easy to get on a battlefield.
How about when you file for a patent it's only a registry, no checks or validity or anything (like now?). And every single time you attempt to use the patent in court it can be challenged (and possibly declared invalid). The government still gets their money, the patent office can continue with their no value added business model, and everyone else can fight the patent trolls in court on an even footing.
This struggle will go on until they run out of oil. Then we won't care, and stop meddling in their internal affairs.
If a corporation is a person, then it should be possible to put it in jail for its crimes.
And yet the Russian invasion of Georgia is completely ignored. I don't think they even got the lame sanctions Obama paid off the powers that be to support.
We should replace the patent system with a mandatory royalty system. You invent something, everyone can use your discovery but they must pay royalties to you for a fixed time period.
The Russian supported civil war in Ukraine will have no serious effects on the US or the EU.
In a world war it's entirely possible for an artillery unit to have tactical nuclear weapons, with the local field commander having the big red button. Of course this isn't a world war, so I expect the big stuff is safely locked away.
Putin (Russia) already has everything they wanted. They wanted to secure the Crimea, and they did. He supports the "Separatists" to: 1-make the Nationalists happy at home (win elections). 2-force Ukraine to join a Russian trade block instead of the EU/west trade block (money). 3-prevent Nato from having military bases on his border(national defence).
We know for a fact that Russia (USSR) has developed working anti-ICBM missile defenses. We know they have some very good scientists, and are good at large problems and know how to keep a secret. The US? Probably not.
1-It would guarantee a full economic embargo from the EU. It's one of the few things that scares the voters enough to make that very painful choice politically viable. 2-They don't need to. They have the military forces to take the entire country easily, why ruin their prize by making the breadbasket of Russia radioactive?
And the version of OS sold in Russia might differ, so the back doors might be different.
If the police put license plate scanners at every intersection in the city instead of just outside the HQ of every street gang then people might ask why they are wasting taxpayer money on that. It's not the specific data, it's the volume that they are trying to hide.
Life expectancy in Canada(82.5) is longer than in the USA(79.8), so apparently those health care queue's aren't that lethal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
The NSA would love to have access to this, they could run facial recognition and search for people of interest nation wide. It would still be worth it though, just eliminating all the bogus lawsuits against the police would pay for this.
It's not unreasonable opposition, the current fission reactors were built to make nuclear weapons. If they wanted civilian power they would have gone with thorium as it's much cheaper, much safer, and we have much more fuel.
The value of the US dollar is dependent on being the reserve currency of the world. If they lose that the dollar will devalue to peso levels. Oil is just one part of that, not the whole thing.