For support I'll mention offshore drilling. This is something that Obama was against and either has moved to supporting expansion of drilling because he's genuinely trying to compromise or he thought it would look more appealing.
When the topic first came up Obama was very dismissive of offshore drilling as a solution noting the amount of time it would take and a quote from him along the lines of 'We can't drill our way out of this'. McCain on the other hand I believe can be quoted with 'We have to drill here and drill now'. This is an issue that they definitely differed on.
Also, one of the thoughts you present, that Republicans like alternative energy for economic and security reasons, can also be at least partially solved by additional domestic drilling. I think McCain is more likely to support additional drilling than Obama for two reasons: 1) He already has (offshore drilling). 2) Traditionally democrats are more anti-drilling than Republicans.
If it wasn't for the willingness to drill, they'd look very much the same on energy. But drilling at this point makes things worse. Increase supply means decreased price, which harms the economic advantage of alternatives and increases uses. Both bad options as far as I can tell.
First I heard of Obama supporting the offshore drilling was commenting on the republican theatrics during the break demanding a vote for offshore drilling. I think that was largely a compromise for him to try to move things forward. There was actually a long back and forth between McCain and Obama about the offshore drilling. I certainly think that both McCain and Obama would work to promote energy reform, but I suspect that Obama would be more aggressive on the issue (I think they're both lying towards center with Obama sitting a bit more reformist than McCain who I suspect would take a more casual market driven approach to the issue).
It's compensating for an externality last I knew. Something markets are chronically definitively bad at. We don't like smog, drivers don't pay for smog. Thus we tax the smog. That's basic and solid economics.
WTF? Why would the jews make sure nothing but WASP men got elected? Why would the jewish media favor the Republicans when they're traditionally more likely as a demographic to be Democrats? I think you really need to look at what you're saying, because your conspiracy theories really don't make sense.
Ironically, we'd have enough public transport if everyone started using it instead of the bus. What comes first? The chicken or the egg? I live a town near a small city. Buses don't run on holidays, sundays, or late at night. Retail workers work all of those times. The people who could use the bus system the most can't and end up getting cars. Now they don't use the bus.
Then again, some people are just whiners and hate riding the bus.
Bush has been doing just fine job of gutting NASA. No one cares about NASA so they have to fight for budget all the time. I'm sure if Bush was in their corner they'd get more funding. He's not. They're not.
Obama isn't in the pocket of fundamentalists and as such might actually realize science is important, and no just something that gets in the way of religion.
You use the gliding recliners like in Wall-E. Coincidentally, Wall-E totally should have included muscle men who just sat in those couches. I call scientific inaccuracies!
When I cool down a rock going from summer to winter though it doesn't show a noticeable decrease in mass. This leads me to believe that the conversion from energy to mass isn't as implicit as to happen purely because the earth slows down.
about 70 kPa (atmospheric pressure) times 120 km/h (wind speed) times 500 km radius... That's the power coming out of an pretty typical hurricane. I'd imagine 'eating' one hurricane with wind power wound do a pretty good job of powering a lot of homes.
Unless of course they're smart enough to realize that we don't really NEED 6 billion people. So what if you're not at replacement levels? Your population will decrease? That's really not that bad. Biggest effects I see are reductions in real estate cost and an increase in social security taxes.
Perhaps we're entering into a time in the world where ideology is more important to pass on the genetics. Just maybe.
It's not that girls aren't supposed to be interested in IT, it's that girls aren't supposed to be interested in being smart, and being smart is perceived as a requisite for playing with computers.
So a girl is directed to be pretty and like pink, fashion, and liberal arts. Boys are directed to like dirt, sports, and technology. No one (usually) says "Girl, no computers for you!", what they do is as parents and within the media groom girls for different interests.
I guess the clearest example I could give is the perception that "Boys like toys, just bigger boys like bigger toys" with action figures often replaced by cars or computers later on. Computers are often considered a 'toy' in this same vein, so it's making computers 'manly'.
But: beds, a couch, a table, a 37-inch flat-screen monitor with stereo speakers, and a full-length mirror... That's 20 inches more than you need on your monitor, a lot more mirror than you need, and definitely more couch than you need. How about you give them a bed, small table, and spend the rest on the troops.
"...to reflect the rank of the senior leaders using the capsule..."
It always bugs me how the military treats the 'senior military officials' better than the soldiers even though the soldiers are the ones putting their lives on the line. Pay increase for going from soldier to non-soldier should be only a lower risk of life, nothing else. What makes it worse is all these 'support our troops' and 'spend money on the military' types don't even realize that the troops are getting shit on.
Windows is just a crappy OS. OS X is so-so performance and stability wise, and linux is hard to use, but XP (or Vista... ugh) is just annoyingly stupid at times. It's not that us Max OS Xers always feel the we're 1337 and special, it's that we hate Windows more.
And Vista with it's strobe light installation features does make me kinda dizzy physically.
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Sorry, I'm just so sick of this "liberal media" fantasy I feel obligated to object to it whenever it comes up.
For support I'll mention offshore drilling. This is something that Obama was against and either has moved to supporting expansion of drilling because he's genuinely trying to compromise or he thought it would look more appealing.
When the topic first came up Obama was very dismissive of offshore drilling as a solution noting the amount of time it would take and a quote from him along the lines of 'We can't drill our way out of this'. McCain on the other hand I believe can be quoted with 'We have to drill here and drill now'. This is an issue that they definitely differed on.
Also, one of the thoughts you present, that Republicans like alternative energy for economic and security reasons, can also be at least partially solved by additional domestic drilling. I think McCain is more likely to support additional drilling than Obama for two reasons: 1) He already has (offshore drilling). 2) Traditionally democrats are more anti-drilling than Republicans.
If it wasn't for the willingness to drill, they'd look very much the same on energy. But drilling at this point makes things worse. Increase supply means decreased price, which harms the economic advantage of alternatives and increases uses. Both bad options as far as I can tell.
First I heard of Obama supporting the offshore drilling was commenting on the republican theatrics during the break demanding a vote for offshore drilling. I think that was largely a compromise for him to try to move things forward. There was actually a long back and forth between McCain and Obama about the offshore drilling. I certainly think that both McCain and Obama would work to promote energy reform, but I suspect that Obama would be more aggressive on the issue (I think they're both lying towards center with Obama sitting a bit more reformist than McCain who I suspect would take a more casual market driven approach to the issue).
Quick! You don't agree with me! I better accuse you of drinking something that obviously makes you a snob! What'll it be? Tea, wine, or caffelattes?
It's compensating for an externality last I knew. Something markets are chronically definitively bad at. We don't like smog, drivers don't pay for smog. Thus we tax the smog. That's basic and solid economics.
WTF? Why would the jews make sure nothing but WASP men got elected? Why would the jewish media favor the Republicans when they're traditionally more likely as a demographic to be Democrats? I think you really need to look at what you're saying, because your conspiracy theories really don't make sense.
You're in a public place. Stop whining about privacy while in public.
Ironically, we'd have enough public transport if everyone started using it instead of the bus. What comes first? The chicken or the egg? I live a town near a small city. Buses don't run on holidays, sundays, or late at night. Retail workers work all of those times. The people who could use the bus system the most can't and end up getting cars. Now they don't use the bus.
Then again, some people are just whiners and hate riding the bus.
Bush has been doing just fine job of gutting NASA. No one cares about NASA so they have to fight for budget all the time. I'm sure if Bush was in their corner they'd get more funding. He's not. They're not.
Obama isn't in the pocket of fundamentalists and as such might actually realize science is important, and no just something that gets in the way of religion.
You use the gliding recliners like in Wall-E. Coincidentally, Wall-E totally should have included muscle men who just sat in those couches. I call scientific inaccuracies!
When I cool down a rock going from summer to winter though it doesn't show a noticeable decrease in mass. This leads me to believe that the conversion from energy to mass isn't as implicit as to happen purely because the earth slows down.
France has proved that nuclear technology is the only quick way to get cheap power right now,
I thought you weirdo conservapedia types hated france...
Wouldn't spinning down the earth make us all feel heavier?
So... If we have 15% efficient conversion it takes 8 days instead of one day?
about 70 kPa (atmospheric pressure) times 120 km/h (wind speed) times 500 km radius... That's the power coming out of an pretty typical hurricane. I'd imagine 'eating' one hurricane with wind power wound do a pretty good job of powering a lot of homes.
I take it that you never heard about sony hacking your machine when you bought their CDs then, did you?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Sony_BMG_CD_copy_protection_scandal
Unless of course they're smart enough to realize that we don't really NEED 6 billion people. So what if you're not at replacement levels? Your population will decrease? That's really not that bad. Biggest effects I see are reductions in real estate cost and an increase in social security taxes.
Perhaps we're entering into a time in the world where ideology is more important to pass on the genetics. Just maybe.
It's not that girls aren't supposed to be interested in IT, it's that girls aren't supposed to be interested in being smart, and being smart is perceived as a requisite for playing with computers.
So a girl is directed to be pretty and like pink, fashion, and liberal arts. Boys are directed to like dirt, sports, and technology. No one (usually) says "Girl, no computers for you!", what they do is as parents and within the media groom girls for different interests.
I guess the clearest example I could give is the perception that "Boys like toys, just bigger boys like bigger toys" with action figures often replaced by cars or computers later on. Computers are often considered a 'toy' in this same vein, so it's making computers 'manly'.
I hate how hard it is to install programs on Linux when they're not in the package manager. I hate how slow the package manager is.
I seriously hope you're joking...
Bed, table, okay...
But: beds, a couch, a table, a 37-inch flat-screen monitor with stereo speakers, and a full-length mirror... That's 20 inches more than you need on your monitor, a lot more mirror than you need, and definitely more couch than you need. How about you give them a bed, small table, and spend the rest on the troops.
I'd prefer pork not getting spent by the government at all. Then I can buy myself some local goods that I want.
"...to reflect the rank of the senior leaders using the capsule..."
It always bugs me how the military treats the 'senior military officials' better than the soldiers even though the soldiers are the ones putting their lives on the line. Pay increase for going from soldier to non-soldier should be only a lower risk of life, nothing else. What makes it worse is all these 'support our troops' and 'spend money on the military' types don't even realize that the troops are getting shit on.
Windows is just a crappy OS. OS X is so-so performance and stability wise, and linux is hard to use, but XP (or Vista... ugh) is just annoyingly stupid at times. It's not that us Max OS Xers always feel the we're 1337 and special, it's that we hate Windows more.
And Vista with it's strobe light installation features does make me kinda dizzy physically.
Unless you want the robot to sacrifice itself for you... Then order 2 preceding order 3 is VERY useful.
LOLWHUT? Stop sniping?