That's the problem. Its complex science. Its difficult to understand the findings for non-climatologists and non-mathematicians. When you take a multi-variable equation and put in front of someone who is neither mathematician nor climatologist its just a bunch of fooey. The result is that you get the findings out via a source that is increasingly seen as unreliable- the press.
So then you run into the problem of smart people who can figure things like this out wanting to ask questions about the equations being used so that can see for themselves what the deal is and EVERYONE from top to bottom screams at them that they are a climate-denier. No, they are a curious party who wants to understand the findings. Teach them. Stop screaming at them and making them into the modern day version of a witch.
Anecdotally, i have talked to climate scientists who treat people the same way. Oh its because of ice core drillings show these results. What do those results indicate? Are you questioning me? Yes, yes i am because i want to understand.
Take your "basic science" and put it in a form that the layman can understand. Its going to take a lot more effort that Al Gore talking about the hockey stick chart because climate change is not predicated solely upon CO2. Its a complex set of interactions between a lot of different chemicals and the sun's energy output. Its neither easy to understand nor easy to explain in simplified terms but until you do so there is no doubt that there will be people who think you are lying.
In point of fact, he is hiding there because he is afraid that the "questioning" will lead to being extradited to the US to face charges for releasing all the info he has released, to the embarrassment of the US. The Swedish government\police have been invited to come to the embassy to question him but they refuse to do so. THAT seems more suspect to me than anything he has done.
Snowden's data dump has been released piecemeal because Snowden and whats his name the journalist (Glen Greenwald?) knew that if all of it was released at once it would cause worldwide upheaval and the fall of multiple governments. They didn't want that blood on their hands.
Ask yourself: What has changed since Snowden released the data he had? Pretty much nothing (in the US.) The status quo has been maintained.
This is because the populace's outrage was kept to a manageable level by letting the data trickle out instead of dropping it like the bomb that it is.
In point of fact, you want the seats in congress to be filled with the party in opposition to the person who creates the agenda. Our government is designed to stop the passage of legislation so that people can be allowed to live their lives peacefully, without the interference of the government.
Define: "The most accurate polling analysis..."
Just because you say so doesn't make it so. Keep in mind that the main stream media has been providing slanted poll results in abundance because those poll results meet their agenda. There have been polls that were published where out of 1000 people there were no independents polled, and the republicans were at a 35% representation. I can't understand how anyone would think this is a valid poll. Try asking 333 (or 3333, etc.) of each and see what the results are. My guess is that it will be a lot closer to a tie than what your MOST ACCURATE POLLING ANALYSIS website indicates. My point is that an analysis of polls is not going to give the answer to this when the polls are inherently slanted to begin with.
Most sensible people do. Protesting is great. Its healthy. When you raise your hand against someone else simply because they believe and voice beliefs other than your own, you are a terrorist. Violence should only be used in response to other violence. If everyone lived by that creed then there would be no violence.
I'm beginning to understand the liberal mindset a little bit from this thread. They tend to take something logical and think it means the opposite of what it does.
Being president, or running for such an office makes no difference at all. Racism is racism and Trump doesn't seem to demonstrate racism if you take his full comments and not just the un-contextualized version that the media repeates . He makes comments that the media skews to fit their agenda. His comment about the judge, in context, pertains to the judges membership in an extremist group that espouses views and actions that are opposite of those that trump has been very vocal about. In my view, the judge should have recused himself to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest. Trumps commentary is about two things - justice and the appearance of the court being impartial. Both are very important and the judge's refusal to recuse himself undermines both.
Actually, he said the intelligent thing to say when you don't know about something. I don't know enough about programming robotics. I'm not going to sit here and blow sunshine up your ass when you ask me a question about it. I'm going to say, I don't know enough about it to answer your question intelligently. It could be that in this instance Trump didn't know who David Duke was and didn't want to say something that he was uninformed about. I mean, there is always a first time, right?
"I doubt you've looked past your own selfishness and actually seen the big picture,"
but you also said: "Really? How many times are you going to spend years of your life creating something awesome... only to have someone else like Facebook or Zynga copy it, market it, and put you out of business?"
Now, who is selfish? The person who wants information to be free or the person who wants to be the sole profiteer?
That one, while pretty graphic, was actually pretty good. I don't know how well it meshes with the comics, but standing on its own it was pretty enjoyable. I'd like to see some sequels.
Hydraulic fracturing has been a method of drilling for oil for over 60 years. The only differences are that now they can turn the drill head from a vertical bore to a horizontal bore and the depth of the wells are much greater, too.
That said, the water they use for this process is not water only - it has chemicals in it that assist with the fracturing process. Its non-potable water and therefore must be cleansed before its returned to the land. Because of the cost of the chemicals, they reuse the same water over and over for more than one well.
This article \ series of articles is just propaganda put out by or influenced by saudi oil princes who are smart enough to co-opt environmentalists and conservationists to do their dirty work. Think about it. Who does the petroleum glut in the US harm the most? Oil producing nations, of course. And of course these oil producing nations want to stop that and get back to their profits any way that they can.
I think the point, possibly to subtle for you to understand, is that the republicans and the democrats are basically the same in that they just want more power, more control, more money. They don't do anything for the benefit of their constituency unless they're empowered by doing so.
I am speaking from ignorance here, so keep that in mind...
Couldn't you sue them for something like racketeering? I've heard this way too many times from local artists for it not to be true on at least some level.
No properly run business fails to pass the costs of doing business on to its customers. Not doing so would eventually cause the business to fail.
This is the reason many people are against corporate taxes. The thinking is if the business has to pay a tax then the cost of that tax is ultimately added to the prices that the business's customers have to pay for the product or service. Again, if the business fails to build this into the prices they charge then it will ultimately lead to the failure of the business.
The problem you are going to run into there is that the employer isn't going to just give you that money. They'll take the hit on the tax penalty and keep the rest for the CEO.
That's because, as any intelligent person knows at this point, the republicans and democrats are two faces of the same coin.
No one has approached or even mentioned the real reason for healthcare cost increases over the last 30 years. There is a little law that goes by the acronym EMTALA. Go read about it and apply a little economics to the equation.
Simply stated, our masters have no desire to reduce the cost of healthcare because there is too much money to be made from a completely captive audience. Whether you take the capitalist point of view or the socialist point of view, the end result is the same - we the people get screwed out of our earnings and don't have a choice in the matter. The status quo is maintained.
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That's the problem. Its complex science. Its difficult to understand the findings for non-climatologists and non-mathematicians. When you take a multi-variable equation and put in front of someone who is neither mathematician nor climatologist its just a bunch of fooey. The result is that you get the findings out via a source that is increasingly seen as unreliable- the press.
So then you run into the problem of smart people who can figure things like this out wanting to ask questions about the equations being used so that can see for themselves what the deal is and EVERYONE from top to bottom screams at them that they are a climate-denier. No, they are a curious party who wants to understand the findings. Teach them. Stop screaming at them and making them into the modern day version of a witch.
Anecdotally, i have talked to climate scientists who treat people the same way. Oh its because of ice core drillings show these results. What do those results indicate? Are you questioning me? Yes, yes i am because i want to understand.
Take your "basic science" and put it in a form that the layman can understand. Its going to take a lot more effort that Al Gore talking about the hockey stick chart because climate change is not predicated solely upon CO2. Its a complex set of interactions between a lot of different chemicals and the sun's energy output. Its neither easy to understand nor easy to explain in simplified terms but until you do so there is no doubt that there will be people who think you are lying.
In point of fact, he is hiding there because he is afraid that the "questioning" will lead to being extradited to the US to face charges for releasing all the info he has released, to the embarrassment of the US. The Swedish government\police have been invited to come to the embassy to question him but they refuse to do so. THAT seems more suspect to me than anything he has done.
Snowden's data dump has been released piecemeal because Snowden and whats his name the journalist (Glen Greenwald?) knew that if all of it was released at once it would cause worldwide upheaval and the fall of multiple governments. They didn't want that blood on their hands.
Ask yourself: What has changed since Snowden released the data he had? Pretty much nothing (in the US.) The status quo has been maintained.
This is because the populace's outrage was kept to a manageable level by letting the data trickle out instead of dropping it like the bomb that it is.
In point of fact, you want the seats in congress to be filled with the party in opposition to the person who creates the agenda. Our government is designed to stop the passage of legislation so that people can be allowed to live their lives peacefully, without the interference of the government.
Define: "The most accurate polling analysis..." Just because you say so doesn't make it so. Keep in mind that the main stream media has been providing slanted poll results in abundance because those poll results meet their agenda. There have been polls that were published where out of 1000 people there were no independents polled, and the republicans were at a 35% representation. I can't understand how anyone would think this is a valid poll. Try asking 333 (or 3333, etc.) of each and see what the results are. My guess is that it will be a lot closer to a tie than what your MOST ACCURATE POLLING ANALYSIS website indicates. My point is that an analysis of polls is not going to give the answer to this when the polls are inherently slanted to begin with.
Most sensible people do. Protesting is great. Its healthy. When you raise your hand against someone else simply because they believe and voice beliefs other than your own, you are a terrorist. Violence should only be used in response to other violence. If everyone lived by that creed then there would be no violence.
I'm beginning to understand the liberal mindset a little bit from this thread. They tend to take something logical and think it means the opposite of what it does. Being president, or running for such an office makes no difference at all. Racism is racism and Trump doesn't seem to demonstrate racism if you take his full comments and not just the un-contextualized version that the media repeates . He makes comments that the media skews to fit their agenda. His comment about the judge, in context, pertains to the judges membership in an extremist group that espouses views and actions that are opposite of those that trump has been very vocal about. In my view, the judge should have recused himself to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest. Trumps commentary is about two things - justice and the appearance of the court being impartial. Both are very important and the judge's refusal to recuse himself undermines both.
Actually, he said the intelligent thing to say when you don't know about something. I don't know enough about programming robotics. I'm not going to sit here and blow sunshine up your ass when you ask me a question about it. I'm going to say, I don't know enough about it to answer your question intelligently. It could be that in this instance Trump didn't know who David Duke was and didn't want to say something that he was uninformed about. I mean, there is always a first time, right?
You must be new, because I can guarantee that there were about 11 trillion negative posts about Bush from Anonymous Cowards back then.
"I doubt you've looked past your own selfishness and actually seen the big picture,"
... only to have someone else like Facebook or Zynga copy it, market it, and put you out of business?"
but you also said: "Really? How many times are you going to spend years of your life creating something awesome
Now, who is selfish? The person who wants information to be free or the person who wants to be the sole profiteer?
great truncation of my topic
Supposed to read:
"Why do people bitch about the NSA and still put their data in "the cloud""
Just wondering.
That one, while pretty graphic, was actually pretty good. I don't know how well it meshes with the comics, but standing on its own it was pretty enjoyable. I'd like to see some sequels.
Using your logic, the person allowing the search is also incriminating themselves.
Hydraulic fracturing has been a method of drilling for oil for over 60 years. The only differences are that now they can turn the drill head from a vertical bore to a horizontal bore and the depth of the wells are much greater, too.
That said, the water they use for this process is not water only - it has chemicals in it that assist with the fracturing process. Its non-potable water and therefore must be cleansed before its returned to the land. Because of the cost of the chemicals, they reuse the same water over and over for more than one well.
This article \ series of articles is just propaganda put out by or influenced by saudi oil princes who are smart enough to co-opt environmentalists and conservationists to do their dirty work. Think about it. Who does the petroleum glut in the US harm the most? Oil producing nations, of course. And of course these oil producing nations want to stop that and get back to their profits any way that they can.
I think the point, possibly to subtle for you to understand, is that the republicans and the democrats are basically the same in that they just want more power, more control, more money. They don't do anything for the benefit of their constituency unless they're empowered by doing so.
They do the same as they are doing right now - they just print it. Who cares whether it really has value. its $100 because they say it is.
I am speaking from ignorance here, so keep that in mind...
Couldn't you sue them for something like racketeering? I've heard this way too many times from local artists for it not to be true on at least some level.
Actually, these days the government decides who is a journalist and who is not.
And yet the comment is still entirely accurate.
No properly run business fails to pass the costs of doing business on to its customers. Not doing so would eventually cause the business to fail.
This is the reason many people are against corporate taxes. The thinking is if the business has to pay a tax then the cost of that tax is ultimately added to the prices that the business's customers have to pay for the product or service. Again, if the business fails to build this into the prices they charge then it will ultimately lead to the failure of the business.
The problem you are going to run into there is that the employer isn't going to just give you that money. They'll take the hit on the tax penalty and keep the rest for the CEO.
That's because, as any intelligent person knows at this point, the republicans and democrats are two faces of the same coin.
No one has approached or even mentioned the real reason for healthcare cost increases over the last 30 years. There is a little law that goes by the acronym EMTALA. Go read about it and apply a little economics to the equation.
Simply stated, our masters have no desire to reduce the cost of healthcare because there is too much money to be made from a completely captive audience. Whether you take the capitalist point of view or the socialist point of view, the end result is the same - we the people get screwed out of our earnings and don't have a choice in the matter. The status quo is maintained.