Sending threatening legal notices to the person or persons responsible for persuading the corporation that it might not be in their business interest to continue to spend advertising dollars on the program is emphatically not within anyone's rights.
I find this sentence confusing. Are you saying Spocko had no right to explain to the program's advertisers why they might not want to back this program? That strikes me as 100% specious if that is indeed your argument.
I am optimistic on several major points regarding energy over the long term:
That mankind will wean itself of fossil fuels. This means massive increases in renewables, energy transport, and improved nuclear fission reactors/processes (breeder reactors and thorium fuel cycles, and ultimately, fusion).
Part of this process will be radical improvements in efficiency. Examples include stored thermal heat exchanges (underground water tanks for summer cooling and winter heating), coal gasification instead of conventional coal-fired power plants, hybrid and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, and so forth.
Industrial civilization with continue and even thrive as a result, even unto the "developing world" countries of India and China.
As a result, anthropogenic climate forcing will cease to be an issue.
We're running out of oil, faced with the probability of using ever-more CO2-generating coal to fuel our civilization, and we're (the "we" being "anybody who's paying attention") supposed to be excited about sending astronauts into orbit to solve exactly none of these potentially life-threatening problems?
I'd call that a good thing. I'd call that knowing your priorities.
If by that they mean software-as-a-service, well, good luck to them. I have no desire whatsoever to be forced into downloading their product whenever I need it, or authenticating myself to Redmond when I want to open a spreadsheet.
Even reading the writeup makes me gag; every time I read nebulous expressions like "social justice", I want to reach for my gun (which I don't own one of, but there you are). What the hell does that mean besides theft and redistribution itself according to one man's idea of "fair"?
The Second Amendment is a necessary protector of the other nine in the Bill of Rights. I don't presently own a gun, but the way the country's going, I'm seriously considering doing so.
California law (Penal code 261.5(a) through (c)) specifically exempts sex with minors from the definition of statutory rape when the difference in age between the two parties is three years or less.
I hadn't remembered Katz's journalistic peregrinations here, but I sort of assumed he had gone the way of the dodo. Is he somehow related to the movie's producers?
Because they can doesn't mean we have to let them. Remember that chattel slavery was once the law of the land in this country, too, and we can fight this crap. Give to the EFF, write letters to the editor of your local newspaper, call/write/fax your elected representatives. This garbage has to stop. It can be done, but not if you believe bullshit from some drunken twentyling sans a clue, or defeatist advice.
but I have a special layer of Hell reserved for anyone whose first solution to every ecological problem begins with the words, "die, humans, die!" Those who call for genocide to solve any problem deserve nothing less than a share of the violence they propose in return.
Seriously, I've seen clowns like you all over the peak oil websites and at creepy-ass websites like (mis)anthropik.com. Why don't you hire someone to take a baseball bat between your beady, hateful eyes and put the rest of us out of our misery?
... they end up suing the state attorney general when said state passes an obviously unconstitutional ban on game content. The game publishers won't make any progress, and the bible-thumpers behind these bans -- because, let's get serious, what else will a conference titled "Video Games, Youth, and Public Policy be about besides cooking up new legislation? -- will continue with their ill-considered efforts to make the world into some kind of sick, dull Disneyland, free of anything of which they disapprove. They form the American, Christian answer to the nutcases running the show in Iran, or Afghanistan, and deserve as much respect.
I've had enough of these guys. New Scientist is just full of the humans-are-terrible meme. The article can barely contain its glee at the thought of billions of people disappearing, at the very least.
The mailbox in our neighborhood has been gone now for the better part of a decade, and from talking to the mailmen, they got everything from vomit (from passing drunks) to dog poop in them, but less and less mail. I'm sure the problems of maintaining these boxes, combined with post-9/11 scares, times the decrease in first-class mail, really contributed to the decision to pull these boxes.
You'll notice that peak oil theorists almost always point to Hubbard.
I had someone comment on a blog of mine at some point that Campbell, Laherriere, etc. may have been Hubbert's intellectual descendents, but they are not his equal.
How about, "I promise to redirect some tax revenue to the stated purpose of implementing whatever technology is prudent to quickly wean ourselves from foreign oil while actually siphoning most of it away for other purposes." This is how things work in Washington. If you don't believe me, ask why Social Security payments count towards the general budget. This is why a carbon tax won't work, as well. It puts the government in the position of being reliant on an eroding tax base (if you're lucky and things work the way they're supposed to) -- not unlike funding health care by taxing cigarettes.
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- That mankind will wean itself of fossil fuels. This means massive increases in renewables, energy transport, and improved nuclear fission reactors/processes (breeder reactors and thorium fuel cycles, and ultimately, fusion).
- Part of this process will be radical improvements in efficiency. Examples include stored thermal heat exchanges (underground water tanks for summer cooling and winter heating), coal gasification instead of conventional coal-fired power plants, hybrid and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, and so forth.
- Industrial civilization with continue and even thrive as a result, even unto the "developing world" countries of India and China.
- As a result, anthropogenic climate forcing will cease to be an issue.
Yes, I know, I'm off my meds this week.We're running out of oil, faced with the probability of using ever-more CO2-generating coal to fuel our civilization, and we're (the "we" being "anybody who's paying attention") supposed to be excited about sending astronauts into orbit to solve exactly none of these potentially life-threatening problems? I'd call that a good thing. I'd call that knowing your priorities.
about inflation.
If by that they mean software-as-a-service, well, good luck to them. I have no desire whatsoever to be forced into downloading their product whenever I need it, or authenticating myself to Redmond when I want to open a spreadsheet.
Even reading the writeup makes me gag; every time I read nebulous expressions like "social justice", I want to reach for my gun (which I don't own one of, but there you are). What the hell does that mean besides theft and redistribution itself according to one man's idea of "fair"?
The Second Amendment is a necessary protector of the other nine in the Bill of Rights. I don't presently own a gun, but the way the country's going, I'm seriously considering doing so.
California law (Penal code 261.5(a) through (c)) specifically exempts sex with minors from the definition of statutory rape when the difference in age between the two parties is three years or less.
I hadn't remembered Katz's journalistic peregrinations here, but I sort of assumed he had gone the way of the dodo. Is he somehow related to the movie's producers?
Because they can doesn't mean we have to let them. Remember that chattel slavery was once the law of the land in this country, too, and we can fight this crap. Give to the EFF, write letters to the editor of your local newspaper, call/write/fax your elected representatives. This garbage has to stop. It can be done, but not if you believe bullshit from some drunken twentyling sans a clue, or defeatist advice.
What a terrible word, left over from the absolutist days of the Russian monarchy. I remember a time when presidents used to sneer at such stuff...
humans tasted just like chicken. (I haven't summoned the courage to ask my wife what she thinks I taste like.)
but I have a special layer of Hell reserved for anyone whose first solution to every ecological problem begins with the words, "die, humans, die!" Those who call for genocide to solve any problem deserve nothing less than a share of the violence they propose in return.
Seriously, I've seen clowns like you all over the peak oil websites and at creepy-ass websites like (mis)anthropik.com. Why don't you hire someone to take a baseball bat between your beady, hateful eyes and put the rest of us out of our misery?
Sure, there's Wix and WTL, but what about WTF?
you have to wonder if YouTube will be worth that $1.65 billion on Monday. That's okay. Google stock won't be worth all that much, either.
... they end up suing the state attorney general when said state passes an obviously unconstitutional ban on game content. The game publishers won't make any progress, and the bible-thumpers behind these bans -- because, let's get serious, what else will a conference titled "Video Games, Youth, and Public Policy be about besides cooking up new legislation? -- will continue with their ill-considered efforts to make the world into some kind of sick, dull Disneyland, free of anything of which they disapprove. They form the American, Christian answer to the nutcases running the show in Iran, or Afghanistan, and deserve as much respect.
I've had enough of these guys. New Scientist is just full of the humans-are-terrible meme. The article can barely contain its glee at the thought of billions of people disappearing, at the very least.
The mailbox in our neighborhood has been gone now for the better part of a decade, and from talking to the mailmen, they got everything from vomit (from passing drunks) to dog poop in them, but less and less mail. I'm sure the problems of maintaining these boxes, combined with post-9/11 scares, times the decrease in first-class mail, really contributed to the decision to pull these boxes.
You'll notice that peak oil theorists almost always point to Hubbard. I had someone comment on a blog of mine at some point that Campbell, Laherriere, etc. may have been Hubbert's intellectual descendents, but they are not his equal.
How about, "I promise to redirect some tax revenue to the stated purpose of implementing whatever technology is prudent to quickly wean ourselves from foreign oil while actually siphoning most of it away for other purposes." This is how things work in Washington. If you don't believe me, ask why Social Security payments count towards the general budget. This is why a carbon tax won't work, as well. It puts the government in the position of being reliant on an eroding tax base (if you're lucky and things work the way they're supposed to) -- not unlike funding health care by taxing cigarettes.
Oh, BS. You mean, with ammonia produced from natural gas, which isn't the same thing as petroleum.
around "security".
for those soon to be empty pipes.
it's not the future of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, etc.