There are far worse things that pollutants from cars. I feel like CO2 emissions are being used to pull the wool over our eyes. Industrial pollutants are far worse for the environment, as it directly affects our cancer rates and food supply. We have been exposed to an unprecedented amount of toxic and carcinogenic compounds over our lives because of post-industrial revolution manufacturing, mining, ect. It affects us through the food chain, water supplies and direct exposure. Ever wonder why cancer research gets so much money? Because pretty much everyone will get some form of it one day.
This is where embargo's and blockades come in (not advocating, just saying). Sure, it would drive the price up, but production would follow from other sources.
America DOES need to use less oil, but until we get politicians that are willing to start cutting defense and homeland security spending, taxing the rich a bit more (not saying a lot, just a little because the poor and middle class are suffering pretty bad right now excluding career welfare people), and educating American people on the actual issues at hand we wont get our alternative energy, infrastructure and mass transit systems in place to do so. America suffers from too many years of prosperity and generations of greedy, self-entitled idiots who actually think "business degrees" are a worthwhile pursuit and continually vote people into office based on one item like religion.
Well, maybe people should start suing for the extra cost in medicine for shoddy diagnosis. Ive had this discussion with an older doctor before. He mentioned that these days doctors are too scared to make diagnosis based on experience because they are afraid of liability. So they default to higher cost and higher certainty tests when there really is no need for it. For example, my wifes tooth (it was an abscess) only needed an X-ray (which are relatively cheap) to almost completely rule out a bone infection, not a full blown CT scan. I understand CT scans are becoming extremely high resolution and show pretty well what's going on, but the cost to the individual is not warranted unless its something ambiguous, mystifying or in need of high resolution.
I don't know about the remaining 99 percent being that way. There are very smart professors such as my adviser who are sort of undervalued by the department. He focuses on wavelets and signal processing. I suppose you could say "wavelets" is sort of a buzzword these days, but his knowledge of math is very impressive by many standards. As a matter of fact, it could just be my department is a good one as I remember several professors at my undergraduate university that were OK teachers but not so good at research.
One teacher I had in high school (english teacher mind you) told me that fantasy is science fiction, I always thought that was stupid because it seemed like it should be the other way around. Thankfully today most people recognize them as separate categories so there is no more confusion.
No kidding. One of the "top percentile" sent my wife to the ER for a tummy ache telling us it was probably appendicitis. She also advocated CT scans for a tooth ache and tried to diagnose my wife with a thyroid problem when we had tests done by an endocrinologist who concluded she didn't have one. We stopped going to her.
They were not portrayed so much as scientists, more as linguists, and the protagonist was a marine. I think the movie probably made more kids want to "go native" or exist in some fantasy realm like WoW or something. I for one wanted to be a scientist because of science fiction books and some movies such as "Enemy Mine" or "Star Trek", as well as science fiction themed games like Star Control. As non-plausible as Star Trek is I always wanted to go to other planets and explore, which I got to "sort of" satisfy by playing games like Star Control.
I was too young to have watched the original Tron and comprehended it but I still saw it with my father as a kid. Its a fairly pervasive movie if you had HBO or even normal networks as a kid.
The thing about melee combat is, it requires extra space. Most airplanes are so packed tight the terrorist could only probably surprise one or two people before being beat down by the crowd. If all else fails use your carry-on or laptop as a shield/bludgeon. A knife to be lethal needs to be more than a few inches without surprising someone anyway (i.e. putting to someones throat). Furthermore, metal detectors and xray should detect 98 percent of the more lethal knives that pass through. Now, as far as bomb chemicals go, I am almost positive specially trained dogs would do a better job than any hardware at this point.
So then its not a bad thing that there is a disparity in wealth unparalleled since 1920? After 1950 it was 70 percent of the money in 90 percent of the people's hands, now its 70 in 10. This is a good thing? Im no idiot sir, you just fail to address the problem.
I spelled out the advantages. Juries made up of your actual peers who are educated on the issues at hand would do much better than and professional judge because they can identify with your unique circumstances. A professional judge is the same shit they had in the middle ages when they were burning people for heresy or sending people who were in debt to prison for the rest of their lives, leaving their families to starve to death. There are advantages and disadvantages to each style.
Well, explain why the disparity in wealth currently is 70 percent of the money is in 10 percent of the populations hands (1920's levels) and why there was ever such a thing as Robber Barons and Coal Towns in lightly regulated markets. I'm not saying our bureaucracy isn't to blame for the problem, as I am all for states-rights and very limited federal government. But keep in mind those with the highest power in the bureaucracy are made of the upper 10 percent richest individuals and there is a revolving door between them and industry or lobbyist taking Congressmen on special "business" trips behind the scenes. Montana (where I am from) had one of the WORST of that class (Conrad Burns). Thankfully he was out of office awhile ago.
At that rate one needs to have some proof or another witness to make it reasonable. Such as someone seeing her fleeing from the room. In this case you could possibly say that since two women are accusing him the likelihood of either is increased but then again the judicial system should not be based on probabilities above 90 percent guilty. Too many men get hit with rape charges and then even when found not-guilty they are ruined for the rest of their lives. As it turns out Assange is not ruined by this case because of his Wikileaks affiliation. Funny how some of the biggest scum bags become revered in some circles, such as Vlad the Impaler.
Europe and Canada seemed to have a few good years of Socialism. I hear people complain all the time about them these days however. Then again the US is supposed to be a Capitalist Republic but you see the same problem of too much concentration of power and wealthy class ruling the rest.
I would argue they need to have "Degrees" of rape as most people when they hear the word "Rape" think of violent rape, such as a man jumping out of the bushes and savagely beating and having intercourse with a woman, or drugged rape, such as some dude slipping a woman a rufie, rather than "oh, this chick was having sex with the dude willingly then she decided she wanted him to stop and in the heat of the moment he refused". As far as the "sleeping sex" I don't know the details but they sound suspect.
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There are far worse things that pollutants from cars. I feel like CO2 emissions are being used to pull the wool over our eyes. Industrial pollutants are far worse for the environment, as it directly affects our cancer rates and food supply. We have been exposed to an unprecedented amount of toxic and carcinogenic compounds over our lives because of post-industrial revolution manufacturing, mining, ect. It affects us through the food chain, water supplies and direct exposure. Ever wonder why cancer research gets so much money? Because pretty much everyone will get some form of it one day.
This is where embargo's and blockades come in (not advocating, just saying). Sure, it would drive the price up, but production would follow from other sources.
America DOES need to use less oil, but until we get politicians that are willing to start cutting defense and homeland security spending, taxing the rich a bit more (not saying a lot, just a little because the poor and middle class are suffering pretty bad right now excluding career welfare people), and educating American people on the actual issues at hand we wont get our alternative energy, infrastructure and mass transit systems in place to do so. America suffers from too many years of prosperity and generations of greedy, self-entitled idiots who actually think "business degrees" are a worthwhile pursuit and continually vote people into office based on one item like religion.
Pretty much the only thing the French didn't fail at was nuclear power.
Well, maybe people should start suing for the extra cost in medicine for shoddy diagnosis. Ive had this discussion with an older doctor before. He mentioned that these days doctors are too scared to make diagnosis based on experience because they are afraid of liability. So they default to higher cost and higher certainty tests when there really is no need for it. For example, my wifes tooth (it was an abscess) only needed an X-ray (which are relatively cheap) to almost completely rule out a bone infection, not a full blown CT scan. I understand CT scans are becoming extremely high resolution and show pretty well what's going on, but the cost to the individual is not warranted unless its something ambiguous, mystifying or in need of high resolution.
I don't know about the remaining 99 percent being that way. There are very smart professors such as my adviser who are sort of undervalued by the department. He focuses on wavelets and signal processing. I suppose you could say "wavelets" is sort of a buzzword these days, but his knowledge of math is very impressive by many standards. As a matter of fact, it could just be my department is a good one as I remember several professors at my undergraduate university that were OK teachers but not so good at research.
One teacher I had in high school (english teacher mind you) told me that fantasy is science fiction, I always thought that was stupid because it seemed like it should be the other way around. Thankfully today most people recognize them as separate categories so there is no more confusion.
Intelligence plays some role. It makes the difference between a Terence Tao and a little known professor.
No kidding. One of the "top percentile" sent my wife to the ER for a tummy ache telling us it was probably appendicitis. She also advocated CT scans for a tooth ache and tried to diagnose my wife with a thyroid problem when we had tests done by an endocrinologist who concluded she didn't have one. We stopped going to her.
Yep. Get the MBA or famous and life's easy.
They were not portrayed so much as scientists, more as linguists, and the protagonist was a marine. I think the movie probably made more kids want to "go native" or exist in some fantasy realm like WoW or something. I for one wanted to be a scientist because of science fiction books and some movies such as "Enemy Mine" or "Star Trek", as well as science fiction themed games like Star Control. As non-plausible as Star Trek is I always wanted to go to other planets and explore, which I got to "sort of" satisfy by playing games like Star Control.
I was too young to have watched the original Tron and comprehended it but I still saw it with my father as a kid. Its a fairly pervasive movie if you had HBO or even normal networks as a kid.
So does the DoD
TSA is their to handle the illusion of safety....
.... and to funnel money into special interests.
The thing about melee combat is, it requires extra space. Most airplanes are so packed tight the terrorist could only probably surprise one or two people before being beat down by the crowd. If all else fails use your carry-on or laptop as a shield/bludgeon. A knife to be lethal needs to be more than a few inches without surprising someone anyway (i.e. putting to someones throat). Furthermore, metal detectors and xray should detect 98 percent of the more lethal knives that pass through. Now, as far as bomb chemicals go, I am almost positive specially trained dogs would do a better job than any hardware at this point.
There are a subset of people that have no interest in other human beings. I for one am too cranky.
So then its not a bad thing that there is a disparity in wealth unparalleled since 1920? After 1950 it was 70 percent of the money in 90 percent of the people's hands, now its 70 in 10. This is a good thing? Im no idiot sir, you just fail to address the problem.
I spelled out the advantages. Juries made up of your actual peers who are educated on the issues at hand would do much better than and professional judge because they can identify with your unique circumstances. A professional judge is the same shit they had in the middle ages when they were burning people for heresy or sending people who were in debt to prison for the rest of their lives, leaving their families to starve to death. There are advantages and disadvantages to each style.
Well, explain why the disparity in wealth currently is 70 percent of the money is in 10 percent of the populations hands (1920's levels) and why there was ever such a thing as Robber Barons and Coal Towns in lightly regulated markets. I'm not saying our bureaucracy isn't to blame for the problem, as I am all for states-rights and very limited federal government. But keep in mind those with the highest power in the bureaucracy are made of the upper 10 percent richest individuals and there is a revolving door between them and industry or lobbyist taking Congressmen on special "business" trips behind the scenes. Montana (where I am from) had one of the WORST of that class (Conrad Burns). Thankfully he was out of office awhile ago.
That movie was a crap movie. Core wasnt it?
At that rate one needs to have some proof or another witness to make it reasonable. Such as someone seeing her fleeing from the room. In this case you could possibly say that since two women are accusing him the likelihood of either is increased but then again the judicial system should not be based on probabilities above 90 percent guilty. Too many men get hit with rape charges and then even when found not-guilty they are ruined for the rest of their lives. As it turns out Assange is not ruined by this case because of his Wikileaks affiliation. Funny how some of the biggest scum bags become revered in some circles, such as Vlad the Impaler.
Europe and Canada seemed to have a few good years of Socialism. I hear people complain all the time about them these days however. Then again the US is supposed to be a Capitalist Republic but you see the same problem of too much concentration of power and wealthy class ruling the rest.
Social libertarianism can be paired with socialist government.
I would argue they need to have "Degrees" of rape as most people when they hear the word "Rape" think of violent rape, such as a man jumping out of the bushes and savagely beating and having intercourse with a woman, or drugged rape, such as some dude slipping a woman a rufie, rather than "oh, this chick was having sex with the dude willingly then she decided she wanted him to stop and in the heat of the moment he refused". As far as the "sleeping sex" I don't know the details but they sound suspect.
That's called the "Aussie".