Pre WWII, what was the USA responsible for? Genocide on the Native Americans, taking land from the Mexicans, fighting the Canadians, invades Hawaii, kidnapping and enslaving people from another content, and the list goes on. I hardly think this qualifies as "staying out of everyone else's business". Please stop with the propaganda that the USA was once great bullshit.
Your making huge assumptions here. How do you know he had fertilizer? How do you know the supposed friend isn't a government agent? The answer is you don't and you are just bullshitting.
Thanks for quoting a man that owned slaves. The reality is the people who have the money make the rules. The people who have the money will maintain their money through whatever means necessary. The people who have the money will divide the people in order for them to maintain their power. Its pretty simple. The "founders" did not setup a government for the people. If so, then Slavery would not be allowed and women would have had rights. It was setup for rich white land owners FOR rich white land owners.
Have you not realized that by not publically disclosing the list... Microsoft actually saves the FOSS community a lot of heart-ache and pain?
Rubbish. M$ isn't saving any one. If M$ puts out the list of infringing patents, then the patents on the list become a huge target for the FOSS community to dissect and prove prior work. M$ retains its strength by keeping those patents it thinks GNU/Linux infringes on secret until it litigates individual companies.
Once upon a time the US used to be a 'beacon of liberty' to the world.
When was this? Was the US a beacon of liberty to the Native Americans (genocide and slavery), Africans (kidnapping and slavery), Mexicans who's land was invaded and taken, Women and their rights, and the list goes on?
Now It is important to point out that tidal, wave, solar and wind power requires virtually no preliminary energy to harness, unlike coal, oil, gas, biomass, hydrogen and all the others.
In combination, these four mediums alone, if efficiently harnessed through technology, could power the world forever.
That being said, there happens to be another form of clean, renewable energy, which trumps them all- Geothermal Power.
Geothermal energy utilizes what is called heat mining, which, though a simple process using water, is able to generate massive amounts of clean energy. In 2006, an MIT report on geothermal energy found that 13,000 zettajoules of power are currently available in the earth, with the possibility of 2000 zj being easily tap-able with improved technology. The total energy consumption of all the countries on the planet is about half of a zettajoule a year. This means about 4000 years of planetary power could be harnessed in this medium alone. And when we understand that the earth's heat generation is constantly renewed, this energy is really limitless and could be used forever.
These energy sources are only a few of the clean, renewable mediums available, and as time goes on, we will find more.
The USA Does censor: Child Porn, Classified USA Documents, E-Currency sites (can't operate in the USA), Online Casinos (again, can't operate in the USA), and bittorrent sites (operating in the US). The USA has many laws that prohibit information from being transmitted (freely) on the internet. This my friends is censorship.
So when
Clinton unveiled U.S. initiatives to help people living under repressive governments access the Internet for purposes such as reporting corruption.
Does this mean that when the USA government shuts down your internet connection for using bittorent, that you can use this to undermine the gov?
without taxes there is no society. without society you're very likely to experience actual theft and actual gun barrels, but very little services.
I hear there's no taxes in Somalia and it's only a plane ride away.
There is something called a resource based economy in which there is no money and therefore no taxes. This would be a much better society to live in because it solves the problems of crime, war, and poverty. http://www.thevenusproject.com/
You are wrong about one thing. It is the people who should actively seek solutions to poverty, crime and war. By giving that power to politicians, you ensure that there will, in fact, be more laws passed and no solutions found. People need to stand up and take the responsibility back from the government and quit relying on that government for their every need and whim.
How do you propose people to end war, crime, and poverty. I'm especially interested in hearing how you end war. What control do people have over the military?
The wheels of justice have fallen off. There is no justice especially when the laws are corrupt. It is impossible for everyone to know all of the laws; therefore, the system is broken.
Why is it in the USA we have the most people in Prison in the entire world?
Instead of passing more laws, our politicians should actively seek real solutions that end poverty, crime, and war; however, this does not make good business. So they ignore these social problems and continue down the path of fascism.
So what exactly happens in the absence of government? Or a Representative Democracy? Would abusive, rich, powerful individuals just disappear?
Depends on the newly established system. If you consider the resource based economy, then cybernated systems will handle the "government" part which is mainly concerned with distributing resources. Corruption will be made irrelevant by the system. Right now, its profitable to be corrupt. But in a resource based economy, there is no incentive to be corrupt and not possible to "attain power".
"The auto lobby (carmakers, insurance companies, aaa etc) do their best to ensure that there's insufficient public transit/public transit of insufficient quality, forcing people to buy cars to get around..."
Care to give specifics on how these industries you just named actively ensure there isn't sufficient public transportation?
"Are there 1) More proven oil reserves or 2) Less proven oil reserves today than there was a year ago?"
Are there more consumers of oil now then ever in history? What is the rate of oil consumption? Is the rate increasing or decreasing?
"and in the case of solar, might be worse for global warming".
Are you saying that solar panels will increase the temperature of the earth? How?
"note you don't mention nuclear"
Because nuclear is unsafe and produces waste that is also dangerous. This source of energy is also non-renewable.
"2) Alternatives not being developed in the 200 years we have before oil runs out."
Do you know what the concept of peak oil is? Why do you think that earth has 200 years left of oil for us to consume?
Why hope for "alternatives" when we already have viable alternatives today. Wind, Solar, Geothermal, tidal, and wave. Of course, using these technologies requires us to change our lifestyles.
"without needing to impose a dictatorship on our citizens to plan for a future that will never arrive."
We already have a dictatorship imposed on the citizens. So I do not know what you mean by this statement.
Using the current model of cities isn't the answer; neither is suburbia. In terms of efficiency, suburbia is highly inefficient. The resources required to get goods to the "consumer" requires heavily on the use of oil. It does not matter if you like suburbia or not, the reality is this way of life is not sustainable and will eventually end with the decline of oil production.
The idea is to intelligently design our cities and transportation systems. The current city structure is poorly designed as a poster above points out, food needs to be "trucked" in.
Futurist such as Jacque Fresco have proposed city architectures that are sustainable including their own food production facilities within the city as well as efficient transportation systems. Using hydroponics locally is far more sustainable then trucking in non-editable "corn" from the midwest to be processed and integrated in much of our food supply.
I wish this would have been so. The road system in the USA is a complete waste of money and resources. It is also unsustainable. When the oil production starts to decline, "trucking" in food and products from around the world to suburbia will drastically increase in price and eventually will stop in most parts of the country.. Please see "End of Suburbia" for more information.
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Pre WWII, what was the USA responsible for? Genocide on the Native Americans, taking land from the Mexicans, fighting the Canadians, invades Hawaii, kidnapping and enslaving people from another content, and the list goes on. I hardly think this qualifies as "staying out of everyone else's business". Please stop with the propaganda that the USA was once great bullshit.
Your making huge assumptions here. How do you know he had fertilizer? How do you know the supposed friend isn't a government agent? The answer is you don't and you are just bullshitting.
You need to find the reason people commit violence in the first place. Why do people murder, steal, cheat, and etc? Resources. We can solve this problem by using a Resource Based economy. http://www.thevenusproject.com/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy
Thanks for quoting a man that owned slaves. The reality is the people who have the money make the rules. The people who have the money will maintain their money through whatever means necessary. The people who have the money will divide the people in order for them to maintain their power. Its pretty simple. The "founders" did not setup a government for the people. If so, then Slavery would not be allowed and women would have had rights. It was setup for rich white land owners FOR rich white land owners.
12% of the USA population is in poverty. That's over 30 million people. In the USA, those people are paying for the poor design of USA's society.
Have you not realized that by not publically disclosing the list... Microsoft actually saves the FOSS community a lot of heart-ache and pain?
Rubbish. M$ isn't saving any one. If M$ puts out the list of infringing patents, then the patents on the list become a huge target for the FOSS community to dissect and prove prior work. M$ retains its strength by keeping those patents it thinks GNU/Linux infringes on secret until it litigates individual companies.
In response China should petition the World Trade Organisation to recognise USA's patents and copyrigt as an unfair barrier to trade.
This is just another reason to have your baby at home with a midwife.
Once upon a time the US used to be a 'beacon of liberty' to the world.
When was this? Was the US a beacon of liberty to the Native Americans (genocide and slavery), Africans (kidnapping and slavery), Mexicans who's land was invaded and taken, Women and their rights, and the list goes on?
The NSA's SELinux, anybody? Obama administration Drupal sites? Forge.mil?
Cartman says: "That's called having your cake, and eating it too".
Now It is important to point out that tidal, wave, solar and wind power requires virtually no preliminary energy to harness, unlike coal, oil, gas, biomass, hydrogen and all the others.
In combination, these four mediums alone, if efficiently harnessed through technology, could power the world forever.
That being said, there happens to be another form of clean, renewable energy, which trumps them all- Geothermal Power.
Geothermal energy utilizes what is called heat mining, which, though a simple process using water, is able to generate massive amounts of clean energy. In 2006, an MIT report on geothermal energy found that 13,000 zettajoules of power are currently available in the earth, with the possibility of 2000 zj being easily tap-able with improved technology. The total energy consumption of all the countries on the planet is about half of a zettajoule a year. This means about 4000 years of planetary power could be harnessed in this medium alone. And when we understand that the earth's heat generation is constantly renewed, this energy is really limitless and could be used forever. These energy sources are only a few of the clean, renewable mediums available, and as time goes on, we will find more.
http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/transcript_add.htm
the race and gender of its work force is a trade secret that cannot be released
Trade Secret = GNOMES
So when
Clinton unveiled U.S. initiatives to help people living under repressive governments access the Internet for purposes such as reporting corruption.
Does this mean that when the USA government shuts down your internet connection for using bittorent, that you can use this to undermine the gov?
without taxes there is no society. without society you're very likely to experience actual theft and actual gun barrels, but very little services.
I hear there's no taxes in Somalia and it's only a plane ride away.
There is something called a resource based economy in which there is no money and therefore no taxes. This would be a much better society to live in because it solves the problems of crime, war, and poverty.
http://www.thevenusproject.com/
Taxes are theft, plan and simple. "No service should ever be rendered at the barrel of a gun"!
You are wrong about one thing. It is the people who should actively seek solutions to poverty, crime and war. By giving that power to politicians, you ensure that there will, in fact, be more laws passed and no solutions found. People need to stand up and take the responsibility back from the government and quit relying on that government for their every need and whim.
How do you propose people to end war, crime, and poverty. I'm especially interested in hearing how you end war. What control do people have over the military?
The wheels of justice have fallen off. There is no justice especially when the laws are corrupt. It is impossible for everyone to know all of the laws; therefore, the system is broken. Why is it in the USA we have the most people in Prison in the entire world? Instead of passing more laws, our politicians should actively seek real solutions that end poverty, crime, and war; however, this does not make good business. So they ignore these social problems and continue down the path of fascism.
So what exactly happens in the absence of government? Or a Representative Democracy? Would abusive, rich, powerful individuals just disappear?
Depends on the newly established system. If you consider the resource based economy, then cybernated systems will handle the "government" part which is mainly concerned with distributing resources. Corruption will be made irrelevant by the system. Right now, its profitable to be corrupt. But in a resource based economy, there is no incentive to be corrupt and not possible to "attain power".
"The auto lobby (carmakers, insurance companies, aaa etc) do their best to ensure that there's insufficient public transit/public transit of insufficient quality, forcing people to buy cars to get around..."
Care to give specifics on how these industries you just named actively ensure there isn't sufficient public transportation?
"In the United States, automobile and tire manufacturers conspired to close down the US streetcar system in the Great American streetcar scandal." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tram#Demise_in_the_US
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/promise/125/direct-military-leaders-to-end-war-in-iraq/
"Direct military leaders to end war in Iraq"
Lets see, permanent military bases, check. Troops still in Iraq, check. US and Iraqi's still being killed, check. Where is this end of the war?
"Are there 1) More proven oil reserves or 2) Less proven oil reserves today than there was a year ago?"
Are there more consumers of oil now then ever in history? What is the rate of oil consumption? Is the rate increasing or decreasing?
"and in the case of solar, might be worse for global warming".
Are you saying that solar panels will increase the temperature of the earth? How?
"note you don't mention nuclear"
Because nuclear is unsafe and produces waste that is also dangerous. This source of energy is also non-renewable.
"2) Alternatives not being developed in the 200 years we have before oil runs out."
Do you know what the concept of peak oil is? Why do you think that earth has 200 years left of oil for us to consume?
Why hope for "alternatives" when we already have viable alternatives today. Wind, Solar, Geothermal, tidal, and wave. Of course, using these technologies requires us to change our lifestyles.
"without needing to impose a dictatorship on our citizens to plan for a future that will never arrive."
We already have a dictatorship imposed on the citizens. So I do not know what you mean by this statement.
Using the current model of cities isn't the answer; neither is suburbia. In terms of efficiency, suburbia is highly inefficient. The resources required to get goods to the "consumer" requires heavily on the use of oil. It does not matter if you like suburbia or not, the reality is this way of life is not sustainable and will eventually end with the decline of oil production.
The idea is to intelligently design our cities and transportation systems. The current city structure is poorly designed as a poster above points out, food needs to be "trucked" in.
Futurist such as Jacque Fresco have proposed city architectures that are sustainable including their own food production facilities within the city as well as efficient transportation systems. Using hydroponics locally is far more sustainable then trucking in non-editable "corn" from the midwest to be processed and integrated in much of our food supply.
Canonical has updated their home page http://www.ubuntu.com/
I wish this would have been so. The road system in the USA is a complete waste of money and resources. It is also unsustainable. When the oil production starts to decline, "trucking" in food and products from around the world to suburbia will drastically increase in price and eventually will stop in most parts of the country.. Please see "End of Suburbia" for more information.