I know those numbers are supposed to be big and scary, but they add up to less than a tenth of a percent of the national landmass. Put another way, about the size of your typical parking space per person. With some wind power to supplement the big cities, it is entirely doable. The *only* issue is inventing a way to store power for the nights.
Your belly-feel doesn't align with the facts, or for that matter, logic. The stimulus employed millions of people. Those people now had money to spend. How is it possible for that to not impact the economy? Just because you "guesstimate" that nothing matters doesn't make it so.
The mindset you are displaying is part of the problem. People see how complicated the system is, throw their hands up, and say "it's random, no one can control it". That sort of defeatism is self-fulfilling.
Liar. Stop regurgitating talking points and think. What caused all the job losses? The recession, obviously. What caused the recession? Rampant greed and absentee regulators. It was a long time brewing. Beyond that, the causes are irrelevant. What is relevant is that once the Democrats were in charge, which happened on Jan 2009, things quickly improved.
And the Democrats were not in control of the government in 2007. They had Congress, but Bush had the veto pen. They could not begin undoing his damage until 2009. Stop regurgitating the lies that Fox has poisoned you with, and think for your self.
Right. When people say "money is the root of all evil" they tend to leave out the first few words of the phrase. Originally, it was "the love of money is the root of all evil". Without those first three words, it really doesn't make much sense.
Work on your reading comprehension. I said "adding jobs every month". Not "adding hundreds of thousands of jobs every month". Go check out a graph of jobs lost/gained per month. The inflection point occurs pretty much immediately after the passage of the stimulus bill. Considering how much the Dems have done to repair the damage, it really is disgusting how the media is going along with the "stimulus failed" meme. But hey, good news doesn't get ratings.
They don't "forget" to raise taxes. The Republicans have instituted a very well-crafted and carefully executed plan for the past decade or so. They pass a massive tax cut to wipe out the surplus. They then drive us deep into debt with wars and the unfunded Medicare expansion. Next, they use that debt as an excuse to eliminate Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security. Then they take the savings, and insist the way to grow the economy is with more tax cuts. See where this is going?
The end result is a society with no safety net to support the ~250 million serfs, who must therefore work for whatever wages their lords are willing to pay, and die in the streets when they are no longer of use. Meanwhile, those lords pay no taxes. The government, with no revenue, cannot regulate the lords to keep them from further abusing their serfs. We're on a fast track to return to the Gilded Age. This is not an accident.
Considering we went from losing hundreds of thousands of jobs every month under Bush, to adding jobs every month under Obama, I'd say he's done a damn good job fixing the damage. If you were expecting those jobs to magically reappear over night, you're deluded.
The back-scatter machines were about money. Robbing the tax payers to the tune of millions of dollars, for a snake oil fix that wouldn't have even caught the terrorist it was deployed in response to.
I'm pretty sure it is a joke. Perhaps one of those "funny because it hits close to home" jokes, but still a joke. The TSA can't be using 1984 as a manual. Even in 1984, they didn't require people to assume a submissive position while being photographed naked.
I think I'll go ahead and weigh the risk of death as a tad more important than the risk of a confiscated water bottle. The only people who are really put in danger by the TSA are those poor saps who work next to the x-ray machines all day.
Unfortunately, when the entire opposition party has made their one and only goal your destruction, you can't really do anything about it. They're willing to push the country into default for the first time in history, destroying the lives of millions. You can't negotiate with that sort of hatred.
Obama's not a dictator. He can't "get some real fucking work done" all on his own. The only way this country can get on track is for the Republicans to come to their senses, or for every last one of them to be given the boot. If Obama get's re-elected, maybe the Republicans can finally set aside their hate and work with the guy.
Because he is a politician. That's not a bad thing. You can't get elected without being one, so if you have good ideas and want to help your country, you better learn how to be political. Announcing support for medical marijuana would just give the right-wing hate mongers more ammunition, without actually accomplishing anything. Without super-majority control of Congress, it's impossible to pass anything. That's not how the system is supposed to work, but there it is.
There are only two ways for sane policies to be passed: either the GOP regains its sanity, or the Democrats gain a super-majority. And I mean a real one, not one where they need to count on Independents like Lieberman.
It's only misleading if you think of biomass as "green". I think most people are aware that biomass means burning things (usually wood and corn, occasionally sugar cane), and that it's not all that environmentally friendly. I took a look at the chart, saw that solar and wind were an insignificant fraction, and knew all I needed to. Solar in particular is practically a rounding error compared to coal.
The PDF linked in the summary is one page - a single table, with energy sources as columns (with tallies for fossil fuels and renewable sources), and years as rows. It doesn't get much simpler. Feel free to number-crunch at your own convenience.
It is possible to store energy, you know. A bunch of mirrors can collect sunlight to melt salt by day, and that salt doesn't magically become cold the moment the sun goes down.
Come on, who else is gonna do it? Yahoo? Altavista? Google won't because they aren't exactly on good terms with China what with the censorship and the hacking. This isn't a case of MS getting into a market by leveraging its monopoly powers -- it's a case of MS getting into a market by lacking the morals found in other companies. If you're gonna bash them, at least do it for the right reason.
AI might have prevented the Bradley Manning leak so put it on the people with security clearances, but leave the rest of us alone. We don't want or need this.
A broken camera with an LED to make it look like it's on could have accomplished the same thing, and would be much cheaper than creating an AI that can tell the difference between someone using a computer legally and someone using a computer illegally. I really can't see any legitimate use for an AI watchman looking over a person's shoulder all the time. Maybe a sufficiently advanced one could sit on a student's desk, watch them work, and correct them if they are making repeated errors of spelling, grammar, or math. But even then, the creepiness factor might cause their performance to drop anyway.
So the fact that he was able to access a list of voters is supposed to prove that votes are rigged? How exactly does that follow?
Voter fraud is a non-existent problem. It's a bogeyman used to get people scared so that they agree to more restrictions on voting, which in turn disenfranchises those who might otherwise resist the powers that be. It also serves the double duty of de-legitimizing any political opponents. Don't like the incumbent? Call him an imposter, and that way you can scream hatred and bile against him at every moment, and your supporters won't question it, because you've given them a way to rationalize all the hate.
The government and CEOs didn't do those things. A bunch of sociopathic man-children did. The governments and CEOs should have had better security, but blaming them for the damage is like blaming a girl for getting raped while drunk at a party.
LulzSec isn't a group of working class heroes, no matter how much you may wish them to be. They're just thugs, hurting people for their own amusement. They'd do the same to you, if they thought it would be so much as a half-hearted chuckle to their friends' lips.
Well, it's not like they bid $3.14 for pi. They just need to divide Graham's number down by 10^x, where x is some unfathomably huge number, and solve for the first 12 digits. Should be easy for smart guys like Google, right?
How many "pro A/V studios" would you say are in circulation? Please express your answer as a percentage of the billions of computers, phones, mp3 players, and other consumer electronics that are sold every single year.
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I know those numbers are supposed to be big and scary, but they add up to less than a tenth of a percent of the national landmass. Put another way, about the size of your typical parking space per person. With some wind power to supplement the big cities, it is entirely doable. The *only* issue is inventing a way to store power for the nights.
Your belly-feel doesn't align with the facts, or for that matter, logic. The stimulus employed millions of people. Those people now had money to spend. How is it possible for that to not impact the economy? Just because you "guesstimate" that nothing matters doesn't make it so.
The mindset you are displaying is part of the problem. People see how complicated the system is, throw their hands up, and say "it's random, no one can control it". That sort of defeatism is self-fulfilling.
Liar. Stop regurgitating talking points and think. What caused all the job losses? The recession, obviously. What caused the recession? Rampant greed and absentee regulators. It was a long time brewing. Beyond that, the causes are irrelevant. What is relevant is that once the Democrats were in charge, which happened on Jan 2009, things quickly improved.
And the Democrats were not in control of the government in 2007. They had Congress, but Bush had the veto pen. They could not begin undoing his damage until 2009. Stop regurgitating the lies that Fox has poisoned you with, and think for your self.
Right. When people say "money is the root of all evil" they tend to leave out the first few words of the phrase. Originally, it was "the love of money is the root of all evil". Without those first three words, it really doesn't make much sense.
Work on your reading comprehension. I said "adding jobs every month". Not "adding hundreds of thousands of jobs every month". Go check out a graph of jobs lost/gained per month. The inflection point occurs pretty much immediately after the passage of the stimulus bill. Considering how much the Dems have done to repair the damage, it really is disgusting how the media is going along with the "stimulus failed" meme. But hey, good news doesn't get ratings.
They don't "forget" to raise taxes. The Republicans have instituted a very well-crafted and carefully executed plan for the past decade or so. They pass a massive tax cut to wipe out the surplus. They then drive us deep into debt with wars and the unfunded Medicare expansion. Next, they use that debt as an excuse to eliminate Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security. Then they take the savings, and insist the way to grow the economy is with more tax cuts. See where this is going?
The end result is a society with no safety net to support the ~250 million serfs, who must therefore work for whatever wages their lords are willing to pay, and die in the streets when they are no longer of use. Meanwhile, those lords pay no taxes. The government, with no revenue, cannot regulate the lords to keep them from further abusing their serfs. We're on a fast track to return to the Gilded Age. This is not an accident.
Considering we went from losing hundreds of thousands of jobs every month under Bush, to adding jobs every month under Obama, I'd say he's done a damn good job fixing the damage. If you were expecting those jobs to magically reappear over night, you're deluded.
The back-scatter machines were about money. Robbing the tax payers to the tune of millions of dollars, for a snake oil fix that wouldn't have even caught the terrorist it was deployed in response to.
I'm pretty sure it is a joke. Perhaps one of those "funny because it hits close to home" jokes, but still a joke. The TSA can't be using 1984 as a manual. Even in 1984, they didn't require people to assume a submissive position while being photographed naked.
I think I'll go ahead and weigh the risk of death as a tad more important than the risk of a confiscated water bottle. The only people who are really put in danger by the TSA are those poor saps who work next to the x-ray machines all day.
Unfortunately, when the entire opposition party has made their one and only goal your destruction, you can't really do anything about it. They're willing to push the country into default for the first time in history, destroying the lives of millions. You can't negotiate with that sort of hatred.
Obama's not a dictator. He can't "get some real fucking work done" all on his own. The only way this country can get on track is for the Republicans to come to their senses, or for every last one of them to be given the boot. If Obama get's re-elected, maybe the Republicans can finally set aside their hate and work with the guy.
Because he is a politician. That's not a bad thing. You can't get elected without being one, so if you have good ideas and want to help your country, you better learn how to be political. Announcing support for medical marijuana would just give the right-wing hate mongers more ammunition, without actually accomplishing anything. Without super-majority control of Congress, it's impossible to pass anything. That's not how the system is supposed to work, but there it is.
There are only two ways for sane policies to be passed: either the GOP regains its sanity, or the Democrats gain a super-majority. And I mean a real one, not one where they need to count on Independents like Lieberman.
It's only misleading if you think of biomass as "green". I think most people are aware that biomass means burning things (usually wood and corn, occasionally sugar cane), and that it's not all that environmentally friendly. I took a look at the chart, saw that solar and wind were an insignificant fraction, and knew all I needed to. Solar in particular is practically a rounding error compared to coal.
The PDF linked in the summary is one page - a single table, with energy sources as columns (with tallies for fossil fuels and renewable sources), and years as rows. It doesn't get much simpler. Feel free to number-crunch at your own convenience.
It is possible to store energy, you know. A bunch of mirrors can collect sunlight to melt salt by day, and that salt doesn't magically become cold the moment the sun goes down.
Come on, who else is gonna do it? Yahoo? Altavista? Google won't because they aren't exactly on good terms with China what with the censorship and the hacking. This isn't a case of MS getting into a market by leveraging its monopoly powers -- it's a case of MS getting into a market by lacking the morals found in other companies. If you're gonna bash them, at least do it for the right reason.
That Americans aren't so petty as to hold a grudge against the British for two hundred years.
AI might have prevented the Bradley Manning leak so put it on the people with security clearances, but leave the rest of us alone. We don't want or need this.
A broken camera with an LED to make it look like it's on could have accomplished the same thing, and would be much cheaper than creating an AI that can tell the difference between someone using a computer legally and someone using a computer illegally. I really can't see any legitimate use for an AI watchman looking over a person's shoulder all the time. Maybe a sufficiently advanced one could sit on a student's desk, watch them work, and correct them if they are making repeated errors of spelling, grammar, or math. But even then, the creepiness factor might cause their performance to drop anyway.
Hopefully you get modded up so people can be exposed to some truth, instead of irrational fear.
So the fact that he was able to access a list of voters is supposed to prove that votes are rigged? How exactly does that follow?
Voter fraud is a non-existent problem. It's a bogeyman used to get people scared so that they agree to more restrictions on voting, which in turn disenfranchises those who might otherwise resist the powers that be. It also serves the double duty of de-legitimizing any political opponents. Don't like the incumbent? Call him an imposter, and that way you can scream hatred and bile against him at every moment, and your supporters won't question it, because you've given them a way to rationalize all the hate.
The iPhone interface -- a bunch of icons arranged in a grid, each of which launches a different task. See also: Windows 95.
*Sigh*
The government and CEOs didn't do those things. A bunch of sociopathic man-children did. The governments and CEOs should have had better security, but blaming them for the damage is like blaming a girl for getting raped while drunk at a party.
LulzSec isn't a group of working class heroes, no matter how much you may wish them to be. They're just thugs, hurting people for their own amusement. They'd do the same to you, if they thought it would be so much as a half-hearted chuckle to their friends' lips.
How does that follow? Just because there existed a record that could destroy X, you can't conclude that there will exist one that can destroy Y.
Well, it's not like they bid $3.14 for pi. They just need to divide Graham's number down by 10^x, where x is some unfathomably huge number, and solve for the first 12 digits. Should be easy for smart guys like Google, right?
...right?
How many "pro A/V studios" would you say are in circulation? Please express your answer as a percentage of the billions of computers, phones, mp3 players, and other consumer electronics that are sold every single year.
Don't bother calling NBC. They already know.