Mind stopping to post bullshit until you finally educated yourself enough as to know what an argumentum ad hominem actually is. One tip, numbnuts, this ain't one. This was a straight insult.
Not exactly true. The only "economic freedom" roman is caring about, judging by his posting history, is the freedom to shit on his fellow man from a high perch, unchecked and unchallenged.
Well, that is what happens when you kill the government, isn't it? Reverting to tribalism or feudalism. The secret hope of right-leaning anarchists is simply that they would come out on top and fill the local warlord position. The secret hope of left-leaning anarchists, on the other hand, is so utopic, that you gotta view Marx as a stone-cold realist in comparison.
Well, no one says that cutting spending is not necessary. The Laffer curve argument is moot, though, because every time I see it come up, I only see the extremes brought up - zero revenue at 0% and 100% tax. That, however, are the trivial cases. No one ever presents a decent discussion on how the curve is actually shaped. Personally, I am hard pressed to believe that the current, historically low tax rates in the US are the optimum point on that curve. I, too, do believe in a collapse, but ultimately not because of the current financial system, but rather because of thermodynamic factors - the fact that the energy and resources we run our physical economy on need more and more energy invested for energy returned. Tomorrow will come in any case. I acknowledge the problem, but I don't see how raising a usual debt ceiling increase which happened yearly for decades suddenly to a make or break scenario does help in any manner.
No, Vincent doesn't want his money in full. The tea party fraction of the republicans just have declared a routine move of fiscal policy to be a make or break moment for the US and they are perfectly willing to break it, just to avoid one part of the reasonable answer to a budget deficit, which is increasing the tax revenue. This has nothing to do with the actual financial situation of the US, this is pure ideological trench warfare. This, by the way, is an outside view. I am not American, so I have no horse in the race, except, of course, for the fact that some people are willing to take the US economy and thereby the world financial system down for their ideological goals.
True, but there is a continuum - and a lot of fresh produce can be shipped without airfreight, and thereby a lot more energy efficiently. I am not saying that we should go without any fresh imported stuff in winter, but some of it is frankly ridiculous as we are doing it now - and, beside any moral consideration - not affordable given the oil supply situation that will hit us in the next 2 decades. That's not a "you are doing it wrong" argument - that's a "barring radical new developments, we will simply not be able to afford it" argument.
Importing strawberries all year long and eating gruel for half the year is a wee bit of a false dichotomy, isn't it? True on the lack of energy density difference between kerosene and current batteries, though.
Ah, yeah - that was a bit too general. I didn't even think about powdered coals - what I really meant was "any flammable distillate, however crappy". I guess the problem with coal would be the inevitable content of silicates that glass up and become hellish abrasives, rather than the soot, though?
Nice amount of namecalling and strawman burning, which pretty much corroborates my guess about your reasoning skills. Complete ignorance of the role of multiple proxies which show the same effects independently, complete ignorance of the distinction between local and global climate events, endless repetition of thrice-debunked bullshit, followed up by more namecalling and strawman burning. Good job there, your masters will be proud. Also, citing Pournelle as if he was evidence for anything but the fact that a hack writer can get a following in geek circles. I don't even expect you to go to your local library and get some real reviews about climate science - just check realclimate for a change and educate yourself. But I guess that is part of the "priesthood", too - as is everything contradicting your unshakable beliefs that are based on propaganda instead of fact.
Well, we have at least seen test flights by major airlines on biodiesel - then again, a turbine driven engine will probably eat most flammable crap thrown at it. Obviously bio fuels are not really a replacement at the current state, though algae derived stuff might be able to be mass produced in somewhat sufficient quantities at some point. The most sensible "replacement" would probably be not having bloody strawberries flown in over half the world in freaking winter...Personally, I'd not count that as a loss - waiting for seasonal products to come up again doubles the enjoyment anyway.
Both match well with your critical reasoning skills, though. It is, however, a quite apt example of relentless propaganda creating a core of "unshakable believers" on the denialist side, whereas the rest follows the developments and adopt their worldview according to the progress of science. You guys don't seem to have the 10% mark yet, though - probably to many in the "also running" category. Perhaps there is hope...
Oh my, this has the theoretical potential for a truly epic flame war. I suppose you'd prefer documents out of the 18th dynasty, too? Akhenaten's unspeakable monotheistic heresy and shit like that? Some fries with it, perhaps?
How about you learn about politics and history, take a long break from posting, and come back when you finally realize that "communism" is not a synonym for "things I do not like but lack the brains to properly categorize"?
No offense, but considering "liberal" not to be "moderate" pretty much sums up the problem you got with your political system over there. Not to put a slant on it - you can exchange "conservative" for "liberal", and the point is still valid.
South Africa doesn't get a free pass, since the cradle of mankind is to be found in central Africa, along Rift Valley, if I recall correctly, so you might give the Kenians a pass here.
Excuse me, Sir, I happen to represent the local honorable family in legal matters. Please refrain from comparing a traditional family mafia business with patent trolling. It besmirches the good name of the mafia. My client would be very grateful for that, if you know what I mean.
It's only good for certain climates, I guess - with the slow change between seasons we have here, the house had a pretty constant interior climate itself. All technical considerations aside - it simply had style. Centuries old sandstone house, no posh lawn, but instead a fruit garden with apple trees twice as old as myself in the back, a stream for good trout fishing just behind the property line - bliss. That's how man is meant to live:)
Regarding building materials, the best house I ever lived in was about 300 years old and built from massive sandstone blocks. The thermal mass was incredible - cool in summer, easy to keep heated in winter. Don't need any plaster on the walls, as the pure stone looks awesome. It'll still be standing 300 years from now, I guess. Really loved that place.
The moon doesn't matter for #4 - as soon as an object is captured in a stable orbit around Earth, it counts as cleared away. #4 should be read as "has cleared its region of planetesimals on potential collision courses". Obviously, a "mostly" is implied. It's vague, as is any descriptive classification, I give you that.
Nope, we aren't. We still are missing a classification for really small solar orbiting objects - i wouldn't put Pluto and a random 100 m diameter asteroid belt object into the same ShaSmaSOO category - we need at least a category for really small SOOs - ReSmaSoo? So your bog standard asteroid with no ambition of being a dwarf planet would be a ShaReSmaSOO. Which leads to the problem of arbitrary size cutoffs. Also, comets are SOOs, but with particular orbits - we need categories for those, also a differentiation between ecliptic and out-of-ecliptic SOOs. There's still room for more obfuscation^Wsystematization.
To be precisely Marxist, the definition of Socialism is ownership of the means of production by a government made up by the proletariat as ruling class (as a transition state on the way to a true classless society). It is debatable whether this city government fulfills that criterion.
Just the usual preemptive-defensive reaction of another code monkey that finally realized that his computer "science" 101 course didn't really make him a scientist. Nothing to see here, just part of the new anti-intellectual slashdot of this decade.
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Mind stopping to post bullshit until you finally educated yourself enough as to know what an argumentum ad hominem actually is. One tip, numbnuts, this ain't one. This was a straight insult.
Not exactly true. The only "economic freedom" roman is caring about, judging by his posting history, is the freedom to shit on his fellow man from a high perch, unchecked and unchallenged.
Well, that is what happens when you kill the government, isn't it? Reverting to tribalism or feudalism. The secret hope of right-leaning anarchists is simply that they would come out on top and fill the local warlord position. The secret hope of left-leaning anarchists, on the other hand, is so utopic, that you gotta view Marx as a stone-cold realist in comparison.
A legal formality. They want to formalize their victory and do away with the democracy orchestration.
Well, no one says that cutting spending is not necessary. The Laffer curve argument is moot, though, because every time I see it come up, I only see the extremes brought up - zero revenue at 0% and 100% tax. That, however, are the trivial cases. No one ever presents a decent discussion on how the curve is actually shaped. Personally, I am hard pressed to believe that the current, historically low tax rates in the US are the optimum point on that curve. I, too, do believe in a collapse, but ultimately not because of the current financial system, but rather because of thermodynamic factors - the fact that the energy and resources we run our physical economy on need more and more energy invested for energy returned. Tomorrow will come in any case. I acknowledge the problem, but I don't see how raising a usual debt ceiling increase which happened yearly for decades suddenly to a make or break scenario does help in any manner.
No, Vincent doesn't want his money in full. The tea party fraction of the republicans just have declared a routine move of fiscal policy to be a make or break moment for the US and they are perfectly willing to break it, just to avoid one part of the reasonable answer to a budget deficit, which is increasing the tax revenue. This has nothing to do with the actual financial situation of the US, this is pure ideological trench warfare. This, by the way, is an outside view. I am not American, so I have no horse in the race, except, of course, for the fact that some people are willing to take the US economy and thereby the world financial system down for their ideological goals.
True, but there is a continuum - and a lot of fresh produce can be shipped without airfreight, and thereby a lot more energy efficiently. I am not saying that we should go without any fresh imported stuff in winter, but some of it is frankly ridiculous as we are doing it now - and, beside any moral consideration - not affordable given the oil supply situation that will hit us in the next 2 decades. That's not a "you are doing it wrong" argument - that's a "barring radical new developments, we will simply not be able to afford it" argument.
Importing strawberries all year long and eating gruel for half the year is a wee bit of a false dichotomy, isn't it? True on the lack of energy density difference between kerosene and current batteries, though.
Ah, yeah - that was a bit too general. I didn't even think about powdered coals - what I really meant was "any flammable distillate, however crappy". I guess the problem with coal would be the inevitable content of silicates that glass up and become hellish abrasives, rather than the soot, though?
Nice amount of namecalling and strawman burning, which pretty much corroborates my guess about your reasoning skills. Complete ignorance of the role of multiple proxies which show the same effects independently, complete ignorance of the distinction between local and global climate events, endless repetition of thrice-debunked bullshit, followed up by more namecalling and strawman burning. Good job there, your masters will be proud. Also, citing Pournelle as if he was evidence for anything but the fact that a hack writer can get a following in geek circles. I don't even expect you to go to your local library and get some real reviews about climate science - just check realclimate for a change and educate yourself. But I guess that is part of the "priesthood", too - as is everything contradicting your unshakable beliefs that are based on propaganda instead of fact.
Well, we have at least seen test flights by major airlines on biodiesel - then again, a turbine driven engine will probably eat most flammable crap thrown at it. Obviously bio fuels are not really a replacement at the current state, though algae derived stuff might be able to be mass produced in somewhat sufficient quantities at some point. The most sensible "replacement" would probably be not having bloody strawberries flown in over half the world in freaking winter...Personally, I'd not count that as a loss - waiting for seasonal products to come up again doubles the enjoyment anyway.
Both match well with your critical reasoning skills, though. It is, however, a quite apt example of relentless propaganda creating a core of "unshakable believers" on the denialist side, whereas the rest follows the developments and adopt their worldview according to the progress of science. You guys don't seem to have the 10% mark yet, though - probably to many in the "also running" category. Perhaps there is hope...
Oh my, this has the theoretical potential for a truly epic flame war. I suppose you'd prefer documents out of the 18th dynasty, too? Akhenaten's unspeakable monotheistic heresy and shit like that? Some fries with it, perhaps?
Oh yeah, the basic freedom of fucking people all over. Has the ebil gubbermint shut down your personal snake oil business lately?
How about you learn about politics and history, take a long break from posting, and come back when you finally realize that "communism" is not a synonym for "things I do not like but lack the brains to properly categorize"?
No offense, but considering "liberal" not to be "moderate" pretty much sums up the problem you got with your political system over there. Not to put a slant on it - you can exchange "conservative" for "liberal", and the point is still valid.
What? Compassion? That's outright socialist! You are advertising to keep all the parasites fed that keep our outstanding John Galt down! Evil!!
South Africa doesn't get a free pass, since the cradle of mankind is to be found in central Africa, along Rift Valley, if I recall correctly, so you might give the Kenians a pass here.
Excuse me, Sir, I happen to represent the local honorable family in legal matters. Please refrain from comparing a traditional family mafia business with patent trolling. It besmirches the good name of the mafia. My client would be very grateful for that, if you know what I mean.
It's only good for certain climates, I guess - with the slow change between seasons we have here, the house had a pretty constant interior climate itself. All technical considerations aside - it simply had style. Centuries old sandstone house, no posh lawn, but instead a fruit garden with apple trees twice as old as myself in the back, a stream for good trout fishing just behind the property line - bliss. That's how man is meant to live :)
Regarding building materials, the best house I ever lived in was about 300 years old and built from massive sandstone blocks. The thermal mass was incredible - cool in summer, easy to keep heated in winter. Don't need any plaster on the walls, as the pure stone looks awesome. It'll still be standing 300 years from now, I guess. Really loved that place.
The moon doesn't matter for #4 - as soon as an object is captured in a stable orbit around Earth, it counts as cleared away. #4 should be read as "has cleared its region of planetesimals on potential collision courses". Obviously, a "mostly" is implied. It's vague, as is any descriptive classification, I give you that.
Nope, we aren't. We still are missing a classification for really small solar orbiting objects - i wouldn't put Pluto and a random 100 m diameter asteroid belt object into the same ShaSmaSOO category - we need at least a category for really small SOOs - ReSmaSoo? So your bog standard asteroid with no ambition of being a dwarf planet would be a ShaReSmaSOO. Which leads to the problem of arbitrary size cutoffs. Also, comets are SOOs, but with particular orbits - we need categories for those, also a differentiation between ecliptic and out-of-ecliptic SOOs. There's still room for more obfuscation^Wsystematization.
To be precisely Marxist, the definition of Socialism is ownership of the means of production by a government made up by the proletariat as ruling class (as a transition state on the way to a true classless society). It is debatable whether this city government fulfills that criterion.
Just the usual preemptive-defensive reaction of another code monkey that finally realized that his computer "science" 101 course didn't really make him a scientist. Nothing to see here, just part of the new anti-intellectual slashdot of this decade.