EU has already committed on co2-cuts, signed the Kyoto treaty etc.
Really? Do they limit CO2 emissions in the EXACT same manner that they limit Asbestos and Chloroform, which is exactly what classifying CO2 under the clean air act would do? Last I checked, BMWs have worse emissions than Toyotas and Hondas.
EU's economy is 30% larger than the U.S.,
They are also 50% larger by population. What's your point?
so maybe you should start to be reasonable and do what every other Western nation does.
They don't do what this law is asking. But don't let FACTS get in your way.
But no, Americans reduce the debate on these idiotic false dichotomies, it's either Stone Age or the American dream. Also, the European Union is not seeing their economies collapins (well, apart from the global depression created by Americans). In fact, EU is a leader in "green tech" thanks to this regulation.
Well, they have a lot of money to devote to it since they don't have to spend ANY money on defense. If the USA took all of its money from defense and put it into Healthcare or "Green Tech," then yes, we'd be able to claim advances in those areas. But we can't, because we're the only Western World with a _real_ military and we use it to protect all of the other countries, and they know it. If America suddenly disassembled its Military, every other country would have to step up and pick up the slack to a have a force to send into every hotspot on the planet and to keep the other guys from attacking.
particularly on the pro-business, conservative side of politics,
Screw those pro-business fuckers!
The fact of the matter is that none of them _care_ about the objective, ideal "truth." They care about practical results and practical impacts. Practically, this law will hamstring American businesses. Why else would 3 million businesses be against it? Even if everything that the environment whackos are saying about rampant wildfires and tsunamis and hurricanes and shit is true (which it isn't.), the way to approach the problem is NOT to suddenly force every business in the USA to treat CO2 in the same manner that they treat arsenic and cut their emissions by an order of magnitude. That literally cannot be done without returning us to the stone age. But the stupid bureaucratic process doesn't have many ways to fight it short of taking it to court.
The Board of Businesses is not trying to get the courts to decide whether or not Global Warming is a reality. They are not even trying to get the courts to decide whether or not Global Warming is caused by human-created emissions. They are trying to get the courts to rule on whether Global Warming will be _harmful_ to humans.
EPA spokesman Brendan Gilfillan said the agency based its proposed finding that global warming is a danger to public health "on the soundest peer-reviewed science available, which overwhelmingly indicates that climate change presents a threat to human health and welfare."
The EPAâ(TM)s endangerment finding for greenhouse gases, as proposed in April, warned that warmer temperatures would lead to "the increased likelihood of more frequent and intense heat waves, more wildfires, degraded air quality, more heavy downpours and flooding, increased drought, greater sea level rise, more intense storms, harm to water resources, harm to agriculture, and harm to wildlife and ecosystems."
Critics of the finding say it's far from certain that warming will cause any harm at all. The Chamber of Commerce cites studies that predict higher temperatures will reduce mortality rates in the United States.
What's basically happening here is that the EPA is trying to get "Greenhouse Gases" to be covered under the "Clean Air Act," which currently only regulates the amount of toxic emissions that industries and products are allowed to produce.
My question is this: What is the EPA _really_ trying to accomplish with this? Covering CO2 under the Clean Air Act would completely hamstring American businesses, forcing them to severely cut CO2 emissions. At this point, that is barely even technologically feasible, much less cost-effective, much less profit-producing. So what, are they _trying_ to bankrupt America businesses? Are they _trying_ to return us to the Stone Age? Are they _trying_ to give American companies as much of a handicap as possible in the global market, such that they will now have to compete with now even cheaper alternatives made in countries that don't have such off-the-wall regulations?
I hate to resort to calling the EPA malicious, because I want to believe that they think that what they are doing is right, but, seriously, that's the only alternative. They certainly aren't trying to _actually_ clean up the air, since worse offenders than the USA already exist and won't be affected by this law at all. In fact, I would speculate that these countries are simply going to grow and gobble up whatever materials we're no longer able to use under this law, and completely take over what little markets American products still have a place in.
This only effect of this law will be to hurt businesses, and they know it, and they're fighting back. And make no mistake, this isn't just Large Evil Corporations, either, this includes literally millions of "little guys."
It is possible that Google guarantees Anonymity when you register for a Blog. Maybe it says something along the lines of "Your private information will not be shared?" If so, while it may be stupid for them to advertise this, they still have to uphold their end of the bargain as best they can.
The real question is: what is "Failure Rate?" Is Failure: "Fails to load a game, but a reset fixes it?" The article merely states: "That means 54.2 percent of Xbox 360 consoles fail in one way or another."
"One Way or another" is extremely broad and could mean anything from a sticky button on a controller to spontaneous combustion.
The Verizon guy waved his hand and said "You don't need to see my identification." When the customer responded, "Uhhh, yes, I do." the Verizon guy proceeded to beat the shit out of him.
There are no tentacle porn apps, so I really don't get the interest.
Are you kidding? If you jailbreak it you can have all of the transgendered multiendowed lolirape tentacle furry apps you can imagine... and some you can't imagine.
District 9 is liquid cocaine fed intravenously to your veins for two hours. It is a visual 2 1/2 hour orgasm. Watching this movie will be the most important event of your life and by far the most pleasurable. District 9 was better than my wedding, better than watching my first son born, better than the time I had sexual intercourse with an entire college cheerleading squad while high on peyote.
Words cannot express it. It is like viewing the face of God. Forget the trailers, forget any stills you've seen, forget whatever anyone else has told you. Forget religion, forget God, forget science, forget everything you thought you knew. There is only District 9, and it is beautiful.
Neill Blomkamp is brilliance incarnate. He is divine. I am not sure how exactly he created this masterpiece of visual neurological cues which induce pure pleasure, but I now owe him absolutely everything. He has perfected visual neural interface with the genius stroke of a Renaissance Master and the prowess of an angel.
Watch this movie, repeatedly. You will want to take off work for the next week (perhaps longer) just to watch uninterrupted back-to-back showings. I am currently writing this from a netbook that I sneaked into the early matinee showing. I must now continue to watch.
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EU has already committed on co2-cuts, signed the Kyoto treaty etc.
Really? Do they limit CO2 emissions in the EXACT same manner that they limit Asbestos and Chloroform, which is exactly what classifying CO2 under the clean air act would do? Last I checked, BMWs have worse emissions than Toyotas and Hondas.
EU's economy is 30% larger than the U.S.,
They are also 50% larger by population. What's your point?
so maybe you should start to be reasonable and do what every other Western nation does.
They don't do what this law is asking. But don't let FACTS get in your way.
But no, Americans reduce the debate on these idiotic false dichotomies, it's either Stone Age or the American dream. Also, the European Union is not seeing their economies collapins (well, apart from the global depression created by Americans). In fact, EU is a leader in "green tech" thanks to this regulation.
Well, they have a lot of money to devote to it since they don't have to spend ANY money on defense. If the USA took all of its money from defense and put it into Healthcare or "Green Tech," then yes, we'd be able to claim advances in those areas. But we can't, because we're the only Western World with a _real_ military and we use it to protect all of the other countries, and they know it. If America suddenly disassembled its Military, every other country would have to step up and pick up the slack to a have a force to send into every hotspot on the planet and to keep the other guys from attacking.
particularly on the pro-business, conservative side of politics,
Screw those pro-business fuckers!
The fact of the matter is that none of them _care_ about the objective, ideal "truth." They care about practical results and practical impacts. Practically, this law will hamstring American businesses. Why else would 3 million businesses be against it? Even if everything that the environment whackos are saying about rampant wildfires and tsunamis and hurricanes and shit is true (which it isn't.), the way to approach the problem is NOT to suddenly force every business in the USA to treat CO2 in the same manner that they treat arsenic and cut their emissions by an order of magnitude. That literally cannot be done without returning us to the stone age. But the stupid bureaucratic process doesn't have many ways to fight it short of taking it to court.
...and in the meantime, people will just buy cheaper, foreign products.
EPA spokesman Brendan Gilfillan said the agency based its proposed finding that global warming is a danger to public health "on the soundest peer-reviewed science available, which overwhelmingly indicates that climate change presents a threat to human health and welfare."
The EPAâ(TM)s endangerment finding for greenhouse gases, as proposed in April, warned that warmer temperatures would lead to "the increased likelihood of more frequent and intense heat waves, more wildfires, degraded air quality, more heavy downpours and flooding, increased drought, greater sea level rise, more intense storms, harm to water resources, harm to agriculture, and harm to wildlife and ecosystems." Critics of the finding say it's far from certain that warming will cause any harm at all. The Chamber of Commerce cites studies that predict higher temperatures will reduce mortality rates in the United States.
What's basically happening here is that the EPA is trying to get "Greenhouse Gases" to be covered under the "Clean Air Act," which currently only regulates the amount of toxic emissions that industries and products are allowed to produce.
My question is this: What is the EPA _really_ trying to accomplish with this? Covering CO2 under the Clean Air Act would completely hamstring American businesses, forcing them to severely cut CO2 emissions. At this point, that is barely even technologically feasible, much less cost-effective, much less profit-producing. So what, are they _trying_ to bankrupt America businesses? Are they _trying_ to return us to the Stone Age? Are they _trying_ to give American companies as much of a handicap as possible in the global market, such that they will now have to compete with now even cheaper alternatives made in countries that don't have such off-the-wall regulations?
I hate to resort to calling the EPA malicious, because I want to believe that they think that what they are doing is right, but, seriously, that's the only alternative. They certainly aren't trying to _actually_ clean up the air, since worse offenders than the USA already exist and won't be affected by this law at all. In fact, I would speculate that these countries are simply going to grow and gobble up whatever materials we're no longer able to use under this law, and completely take over what little markets American products still have a place in.
This only effect of this law will be to hurt businesses, and they know it, and they're fighting back. And make no mistake, this isn't just Large Evil Corporations, either, this includes literally millions of "little guys."
Next week we'll learn that Fairpoint is being approved for a government bailout Stimulus Package.
The real question is... which one gets to restart HAL-9000?
[Citation Needed]
Hey, don't mock the slashdot editors.
I cna raed slashhhdott adn work at the same tikme.
syntx errer wtf???
His spinal cord is emitting subspace tachyon flux rays that block any attempts at repair.
They even tried the Main Deflector Dish, but the spinal capacitance field blocked it.
Avatar: FernGully with Mechs.
UNLESS, of course, they changed the Terms of Service since the original incident!! The plot thickens!!
Agreed. Thank-you, GP, for the response. Mod GP up.
It is possible that Google guarantees Anonymity when you register for a Blog. Maybe it says something along the lines of "Your private information will not be shared?" If so, while it may be stupid for them to advertise this, they still have to uphold their end of the bargain as best they can.
The real question is: what is "Failure Rate?" Is Failure: "Fails to load a game, but a reset fixes it?" The article merely states: "That means 54.2 percent of Xbox 360 consoles fail in one way or another."
"One Way or another" is extremely broad and could mean anything from a sticky button on a controller to spontaneous combustion.
The Verizon guy waved his hand and said "You don't need to see my identification." When the customer responded, "Uhhh, yes, I do." the Verizon guy proceeded to beat the shit out of him.
"Oh, you have an account on Kramden? That's a much faster Vax than Norton...what project are you working on that you scored that??"
One of these days, TO THE MOON!!
Jesus Christ himself is weeping right now.
WHOOOOOSH.
How is this a troll?
Shut up, Flamebait!! :D
There are no tentacle porn apps, so I really don't get the interest.
Are you kidding? If you jailbreak it you can have all of the transgendered multiendowed lolirape tentacle furry apps you can imagine... and some you can't imagine.
What is "Swipe Payment Ability" with regards to a phone? 10s of Google revealed nothing.
Ubuntu requires less effort to use than Windows.
I'll believe it when the ship a version without the command line interface.
What's even funnier is comparing the relative lengths of related articles:
For instance:
Pokemon compared to Animal
Wizard compared to Scientist
Afghan Civil War compared to Marvel Civil War
Emperor Palpatine compared to Emperor Charles IV
Klingon Language compared to Mandarin Chinese
Seriously dude, it would still have that extra realism if the jerkimeter was at 5 instead of 11.
I'm pretty sure the Jerkimeter for the /. summary is around 11, too.
District 9 is liquid cocaine fed intravenously to your veins for two hours. It is a visual 2 1/2 hour orgasm. Watching this movie will be the most important event of your life and by far the most pleasurable. District 9 was better than my wedding, better than watching my first son born, better than the time I had sexual intercourse with an entire college cheerleading squad while high on peyote.
Words cannot express it. It is like viewing the face of God. Forget the trailers, forget any stills you've seen, forget whatever anyone else has told you. Forget religion, forget God, forget science, forget everything you thought you knew. There is only District 9, and it is beautiful.
Neill Blomkamp is brilliance incarnate. He is divine. I am not sure how exactly he created this masterpiece of visual neurological cues which induce pure pleasure, but I now owe him absolutely everything. He has perfected visual neural interface with the genius stroke of a Renaissance Master and the prowess of an angel.
Watch this movie, repeatedly. You will want to take off work for the next week (perhaps longer) just to watch uninterrupted back-to-back showings. I am currently writing this from a netbook that I sneaked into the early matinee showing. I must now continue to watch.
-Travis