He absolutely is but that doesn't fit the rightwingnut narrative so instead he's a Kenyan Muslim divisive socialist who's coming for your guns. Didn't you get the memo?
Have you already forgotten Nugent saying "he'd be dead or in jail" within a year if Obama was re-elected and that he was "as serious as a heart attack"? Let's see him claim somewhere down the road that he made that up, too. Nugent sits on the NRA board, fer fuck's sake.
As far as Frum goes, he has a legit claim to paraphrase Reagan's famous phrase that he didn't leave the right-wing, the right-wing left him. I can't recall who it was that said that since Reagan, the Democrats have moved to the right and the right moved in to a mental hospital. I don't agree with Frum on many issues but I don't think he's batshit, unlike many of the pro-gun, anti-taxes, Kenyan-socialist-hating airhead mouthpieces.
The reason for using weapons matters, not just the fact that someone is willing to open fire. Those Ted Nugent loudmouths talk a big game and while I'm sure many are serious, most will shit themselves like he did when called to action.
Although I disapprove of guns in schools for any reason, I'd sooner arm elementary school teachers than any of the 2nd amendment wingnuts. At least I know the people like the ones at Sandy Hook will actually put their lives on the line for what they believe in, whether or not they believe they have a right to pack heat.
In America? Not a chance. The NRA and the gun-toting loudmouths will make a big fuss about needing firearms to defend against Obama, er, government tyranny, tree of liberty, blood of patriots, blah, blah.
But to actually rise up against the establishment? That's for college students, weed-smoking liberal hippies, unwashed OWS layabouts and Muslims.
Zuse's accomplishments, especially in the privations of war, were remarkable. He could theorise, build and deliver in a way that very few are capable. I don't think he has a present day equivalent of whom I'm aware. Perhaps only Danny Hillis comes close but Thinking Machines didn't succeed.
Yachts, whores and coke? That's job creation, my friend. Do you know what kind of er, stimulus, those things you named gives to manufacturing, transportation and medicine?
True. But watching the shenanigans & revelations of the past several administrations, I may have to downgrade my opinion of what "a more perfect union" is.
While I don't object to citing sources and I probably should have, your point about me not doing it is, quite frankly, considerably overblown. Are you saying that if I DID cite, you would accept those at face value? That's not very scientific of you.
I'm going to make another claim which I'm also not going to provide citations for - are you going to dismiss it out of hand?
Ready?
Even if no extra methane is released from increased production of natural gas, reducing coal consumption in favor of burning natural gas may not significantly reduce the rate of warming and may even increase it because some of the byproducts of burning coal have a significant cooling effect.
I hope you're right about containing natural gas but if fracking continues to grow and in places where regulation and oversight are weak, then the short-term warming may increase. Moving away from coal to nuclear would be a good thing if only we could get the damnable nuke plants built on time, on budget and stop being sissies about reprocessing. Moving from coal to natgas is troublesome to quantify. Cleaner air - yes, less pollution - hell yes, less smog - yes, less warming - er, maybe not, since coal's production of aerosols have a cooling effect in the atmosphere but its deposits on glaciers and ice caps speed melting by reducing albedo.
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I doubt he'll answer but it'll probably be a "think of the children" argument.
There are plenty of nutters on your side of the fence who go around threatening & harassing people.
As for the people who are supposedly threatening you, at least you know they won't be packing heat.
And too lazy to log in to Slashdot?
The Luddites failed and that was a good thing but if 45% of jobs go to machines, what will all that gun-toting population do?
He absolutely is but that doesn't fit the rightwingnut narrative so instead he's a Kenyan Muslim divisive socialist who's coming for your guns.
Didn't you get the memo?
I added that because of the Arab Spring where ordinary mostly-unarmed citizens stood up to oppressive regimes.
Have you already forgotten Nugent saying "he'd be dead or in jail" within a year if Obama was re-elected and that he was "as serious as a heart attack"?
Let's see him claim somewhere down the road that he made that up, too.
Nugent sits on the NRA board, fer fuck's sake.
As far as Frum goes, he has a legit claim to paraphrase Reagan's famous phrase that he didn't leave the right-wing, the right-wing left him.
I can't recall who it was that said that since Reagan, the Democrats have moved to the right and the right moved in to a mental hospital.
I don't agree with Frum on many issues but I don't think he's batshit, unlike many of the pro-gun, anti-taxes, Kenyan-socialist-hating airhead mouthpieces.
Yet another reason to never buy Mac.
The reason for using weapons matters, not just the fact that someone is willing to open fire.
Those Ted Nugent loudmouths talk a big game and while I'm sure many are serious, most will shit themselves like he did when called to action.
Although I disapprove of guns in schools for any reason, I'd sooner arm elementary school teachers than any of the 2nd amendment wingnuts.
At least I know the people like the ones at Sandy Hook will actually put their lives on the line for what they believe in, whether or not they believe they have a right to pack heat.
Here's right-winger David Frum's take on the matter:
http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/15/opinion/frum-guns-race/index.html
So what? Read the parent and grandparent comments.
If you could do that, you'd be the CEO.
Well, Mitt Romney said it. It must be true. And he supports the death penalty.
In America? Not a chance.
The NRA and the gun-toting loudmouths will make a big fuss about needing firearms to defend against Obama, er, government tyranny, tree of liberty, blood of patriots, blah, blah.
But to actually rise up against the establishment?
That's for college students, weed-smoking liberal hippies, unwashed OWS layabouts and Muslims.
Don't you mean a corrupt Kony?
Zuse's accomplishments, especially in the privations of war, were remarkable.
He could theorise, build and deliver in a way that very few are capable.
I don't think he has a present day equivalent of whom I'm aware. Perhaps only Danny Hillis comes close but Thinking Machines didn't succeed.
What about Konrad Zuse?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse
They were all very intelligently designed by the Great Programmer. There's even code reuse.
You mean zero-point energy.
"Wealth transfer to 3rd world countries" ??
I'd say the West did a great job of transferring in the OPPOSITE direction for a long time - and still do.
Yachts, whores and coke?
That's job creation, my friend. Do you know what kind of er, stimulus, those things you named gives to manufacturing, transportation and medicine?
True. But watching the shenanigans & revelations of the past several administrations, I may have to downgrade my opinion of what "a more perfect union" is.
I wouldn't call it God but it is a Trinity, divided against itself
If only we could completely separate Church from State but I don't think even that would change their attitudes.
While I don't object to citing sources and I probably should have, your point about me not doing it is, quite frankly, considerably overblown.
Are you saying that if I DID cite, you would accept those at face value? That's not very scientific of you.
I'm going to make another claim which I'm also not going to provide citations for - are you going to dismiss it out of hand?
Ready?
Even if no extra methane is released from increased production of natural gas, reducing coal consumption in favor of burning natural gas may not significantly reduce the rate of warming and may even increase it because some of the byproducts of burning coal have a significant cooling effect.
I hope you're right about containing natural gas but if fracking continues to grow and in places where regulation and oversight are weak, then the short-term warming may increase.
Moving away from coal to nuclear would be a good thing if only we could get the damnable nuke plants built on time, on budget and stop being sissies about reprocessing.
Moving from coal to natgas is troublesome to quantify. Cleaner air - yes, less pollution - hell yes, less smog - yes, less warming - er, maybe not, since coal's production of aerosols have a cooling effect in the atmosphere but its deposits on glaciers and ice caps speed melting by reducing albedo.