"Are you serious? Are you serious with that question?" - Nancy Pelosi.;-) It's pretty damn obvious that the earth's climate is constantly changing. It was a giant snowball before life arose, a huge desert ~500 million years ago, a tropical forest in the age of dinosaurs (~70 MYA), and as recently as 1300 AD, the planet was warm enough that Greenland was actually a green paradise. (But then later cooled and killed-off all human habitation during the renaissance period.)
>>>Our metabolism produces CO2 as a waste product which we expel from our bodies. Same thing with urine.... it's clearly crazy to say that emitting CO2 into the atmosphere is not pollution
So you would say the "ideal" goal is to eliminate this CO2 pollution that's coming our of our bodies (and cars), as we've tried to eliminate airborne particulate matter (soot) and NOx/SOx by filtering our cars/power plants exhausts. i.e. We tried to make them zero. And should do the same with CO2==zero.
God you're an idiot. You would kill all the plants. And us with them (we would starve).
Bullshit. If you defined CO2 as a "pollutant" (which is a substance like airborne particulate matter or smoke or cyanide or lead paint and should ideally be zero), then you would kill all of the plants. A pollutant is a substance that causes harm to living things, and therefore should be in zero quantities near those living things.
Why not. Netzero offers it for free. Netscape ISP offers unlimited net for $7/month. Anybody can afford to get online once a week, vote on the representative's website, then log-off.
>>>from the left would be: is polluting the air good for you or not? The answer is obviously, no, it's not good for you.
Except they want to limit CO2, which is not a pollutant. CO2 is a necessary component for all life on this planet (except possibly anaerobic bacteria, or colonies feeding off ocean vents). Without CO2 all plants would go extinct and so would we.
CO2 is not a pollutant like say, ground-level ozone, which animal's lungs, or soot from cars which also damages animal's lungs. As a libertarian-republican that wants to protect the right to breathe clean non-lung-damaging air, I support having catalytic converters and filters to remove this junk from car/power plant exhausts.
But for CO2 the liberals have to come-up with a better argument than "it pollutes" because it simply is not true. CO2 does not harm me or animals when it is breathed in, but it does help grow my food (fruits and veggies). CO2 is an essential part of life.
>>>so much time, effort, and money has been wasted on both sides arguing the merits of man-made global warming, I wonder if this was the most effective road to go down.
Doubtful but global warmers BELIEVE we need to do something. Too late to try to get them to stop.
Technically the Constitution says "right to bear arms" so that would include swords and knives. Whatever it takes to remove the dictator from power. If that means having all 200 million adult Americans storm the capitol and stab President-Dictator Julius to death, so be it. (Though I'd rather we have semi-automatics.)
You are not guilty just because you get a copyright notice, any more than you are guilty when a cop pulls you over. And dealing with the notice is as simple as saying, "The work does not infringe copyright," whereupon the photo or video MUST be restored by the law. So it's a few hours hassle..... that is all. (Oh and you do have legal recourse. You have the right to sue the website if they refuse to restore your photo or video. You are not without due process.)
As for the Franklin quote, it is nullified by the U.S. Constitution which says you do not have the right to use copyrighted works. They are "exclusive" to the author.
So France is allowed to ban GM foods? Last I heard they are not. And yes U.S. states have armies (militias), diplomatic relations with foreign countries (or nearby states), as well as trade agreements. And they've even nullified U.S. law.
The most famous example was the U.S. Fugitive Slave Act when northern states refused to return escaped slaves, thus giving Harriet Tubman and others sanctuary. But there have been more-recent examples like legalization of medical marijuana in direct defiance of U.S. Prohibition, and refusing to build nuclear waste sites as Congress ordered them to do. Some states are even refusing to implement Obamacare (the part that mandates states must provide free insurance to the poor).
Mainly because of the Cold War between the U.S, and U.S.S.R. They forced the peace upon Europe. Let's see how long it last under the European Union's Lisbon Treaty (constitution). We've got only 6 years so far.
Now that Greek and Italian newspapers are drawing German Chancellor in Nazi uniform, with fascist parties gaining seats in the Greek government, war may not be far off. (Or the dissolution of the EU.) BTW I think the peace of the 1800s was longer..... almost a century.
No FUCK YOU and read this page of ann ARTIST (not a corp) defending his copyriught. www.petapixel.com/2012/05/25/photographer-threatened-with-lawsuit-after-protecting-his-copyright
You stuipid troliong sdon of a bitch
I'd call it "painsy-assed". As in: If you are so easily offended that a poster said a non-speaker can only find non-speaking blue-collar jobs, then you must be painsy-assed. Don't be so sensitive.
You won't get far w/o Chinese language. I applied for a TEMP job in Japan, only 100 miles from the just-exploded nuclear, when they were having trouble finding workers, and still didn't get it. They said it was lack of japanese.
That's how I am..... except when it's something I love like Star Trek or Babylon 5. Then I want the HD and that's only available (for me) through Bluray.
Of and I disagree the adoption is slow. DVD took almost ten years to outsell VHS. Bluray's only been the "official" HD standard for 3-4 years now. In ten years I'm sure it will outsell the older standard
Except in this case. YES of course Windows 8 will succeed, just as Blurays have succeeded, despite rampant claims that discs are no longer needed. You can't just pull everything off the net, when you either have slow connections (Dialup or Economy cable) or data limits (250GB). That means you need a base OS to run the programs offline. Or for privacy.
>>> the police have no responsibility to give the recording in full to the defense
Yes they do. If it's later discovered they were withholding evidence, the defendent is automatically freed because he didn't get a fair trial. So the police have a responsibility to turn over everything (else they'd just be stupid).
>>>force you to turn them off, confiscate and erase the evidence
Yes they can FORCE you to do it. That's what government is best at: Use of force to suppress natural rights. BUT you can also prosecute the cops under the law for destruction of material evidence. He would be fined or demoted.
DMCA really isn't that bad. It provides a way for artists to protect their copyright over their work, simply by sending a notice to the website, "It appears you or your user is infringing upon my work without permission."
The website or user can respond immediately to say, "Yes it's infringing. I removed it," or "No it isn't infringing. Reactivate my account per the DMCA law." Quick and easy way of dealing with these things, rather than being drug to court. See my signature for an example.
Why doesn't our president let the Senate vote on ACTA? He's holding the people hostage to a treaty that he signed, and is enforcing upon us, but has never been ratified.
As for the EU: I agree with the other poster they'll just pass ACTA later as some other form (probably through the unelected politburo or apparatchiks). Look how the EU overruled the French Assembly's banning of GM foods within its juris diction..... the 25 nations are not even states anymore. They are EU provinces. They have less power than a US state. Sad, sad times for our European cousins.
But when some future Julius Caesar takes-over as president, and starts writing his own laws (thus making the House/Senate impotent like the real Caesar did), how are we supposed to overthrow those dictator if we don't have guns?
Yes and that law is now nullified by the First Circuit Court of the U.S. which declared "citizens have a first amendment right to record their public officials in the performance of their duties." - Then they freed the citizen who was being charged under wiretap laws for recording an law enforcement officer.
In other words, cops may not force you to turn off your camera, per your 1st amendment "freedom of the press" right which allows not just recording conversation with pen-and-paper (like the old days) but also with audio or video.
QUOTE: "In at least one city, New Bedford, Mass., where sensors recorded a loud street argument that accompanied a fatal shooting last December, the system has raised questions about privacy and the reach of police surveillance, even in the service of reducing gun violence."
The Supreme Court has ruled people have no expectation of privacy in a public setting or publicly-open facility (like a mall). Note that also includes cops who try to make you turn-off your videocamera or audio recorder. They don't have any right to privacy either, and can not force you to turn them off, or confiscate & erase the evidence.
>>>You can wait a year or so and pay less to read copies of those books that make it to paperback
Okay. I do the same with videogames, waiting for them to drop from $60 to Greatest Hits pricing ($20) or clearance pricing ($10. Impatience wastes a lot of money. Being patient saves a lot of money.
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"Are you serious? Are you serious with that question?" - Nancy Pelosi. ;-) It's pretty damn obvious that the earth's climate is constantly changing. It was a giant snowball before life arose, a huge desert ~500 million years ago, a tropical forest in the age of dinosaurs (~70 MYA), and as recently as 1300 AD, the planet was warm enough that Greenland was actually a green paradise. (But then later cooled and killed-off all human habitation during the renaissance period.)
>>>Our metabolism produces CO2 as a waste product which we expel from our bodies. Same thing with urine.... it's clearly crazy to say that emitting CO2 into the atmosphere is not pollution
So you would say the "ideal" goal is to eliminate this CO2 pollution that's coming our of our bodies (and cars), as we've tried to eliminate airborne particulate matter (soot) and NOx/SOx by filtering our cars/power plants exhausts. i.e. We tried to make them zero. And should do the same with CO2==zero.
God you're an idiot.
You would kill all the plants.
And us with them (we would starve).
>>>CO2 absolutely IS "pollution", in a sense
Bullshit. If you defined CO2 as a "pollutant" (which is a substance like airborne particulate matter or smoke or cyanide or lead paint and should ideally be zero), then you would kill all of the plants. A pollutant is a substance that causes harm to living things, and therefore should be in zero quantities near those living things.
>>>Not everyone uses the internet,
Why not. Netzero offers it for free. Netscape ISP offers unlimited net for $7/month. Anybody can afford to get online once a week, vote on the representative's website, then log-off.
>>>And Fox News, of course, pushed a story
No they didn't.
I'm looking at the website now and don't see this study published anywhere. You lie.
>>>from the left would be: is polluting the air good for you or not? The answer is obviously, no, it's not good for you.
Except they want to limit CO2, which is not a pollutant. CO2 is a necessary component for all life on this planet (except possibly anaerobic bacteria, or colonies feeding off ocean vents). Without CO2 all plants would go extinct and so would we.
CO2 is not a pollutant like say, ground-level ozone, which animal's lungs, or soot from cars which also damages animal's lungs. As a libertarian-republican that wants to protect the right to breathe clean non-lung-damaging air, I support having catalytic converters and filters to remove this junk from car/power plant exhausts.
But for CO2 the liberals have to come-up with a better argument than "it pollutes" because it simply is not true. CO2 does not harm me or animals when it is breathed in, but it does help grow my food (fruits and veggies). CO2 is an essential part of life.
>>>so much time, effort, and money has been wasted on both sides arguing the merits of man-made global warming, I wonder if this was the most effective road to go down.
Doubtful but global warmers BELIEVE we need to do something. Too late to try to get them to stop.
Technically the Constitution says "right to bear arms" so that would include swords and knives. Whatever it takes to remove the dictator from power. If that means having all 200 million adult Americans storm the capitol and stab President-Dictator Julius to death, so be it. (Though I'd rather we have semi-automatics.)
You are not guilty just because you get a copyright notice, any more than you are guilty when a cop pulls you over. And dealing with the notice is as simple as saying, "The work does not infringe copyright," whereupon the photo or video MUST be restored by the law. So it's a few hours hassle..... that is all. (Oh and you do have legal recourse. You have the right to sue the website if they refuse to restore your photo or video. You are not without due process.)
As for the Franklin quote, it is nullified by the U.S. Constitution which says you do not have the right to use copyrighted works. They are "exclusive" to the author.
So France is allowed to ban GM foods?
Last I heard they are not.
And yes U.S. states have armies (militias), diplomatic relations with foreign countries (or nearby states), as well as trade agreements. And they've even nullified U.S. law.
The most famous example was the U.S. Fugitive Slave Act when northern states refused to return escaped slaves, thus giving Harriet Tubman and others sanctuary. But there have been more-recent examples like legalization of medical marijuana in direct defiance of U.S. Prohibition, and refusing to build nuclear waste sites as Congress ordered them to do. Some states are even refusing to implement Obamacare (the part that mandates states must provide free insurance to the poor).
Mainly because of the Cold War between the U.S, and U.S.S.R. They forced the peace upon Europe. Let's see how long it last under the European Union's Lisbon Treaty (constitution). We've got only 6 years so far.
Now that Greek and Italian newspapers are drawing German Chancellor in Nazi uniform, with fascist parties gaining seats in the Greek government, war may not be far off. (Or the dissolution of the EU.) BTW I think the peace of the 1800s was longer..... almost a century.
No FUCK YOU and read this page of ann ARTIST (not a corp) defending his copyriught. www.petapixel.com/2012/05/25/photographer-threatened-with-lawsuit-after-protecting-his-copyright
You stuipid troliong sdon of a bitch
I'd call it "painsy-assed". As in: If you are so easily offended that a poster said a non-speaker can only find non-speaking blue-collar jobs, then you must be painsy-assed. Don't be so sensitive.
I thought the necessity for Silverlight (and Flash) was obsoleted by HTML 5? I think both these programs need to disappear.
>>>Then Windows 9 (like Windows 7) will take the good and strip out the bad from its predecessor and be the next Big Thing like Windows 7 was
So it's the Star Trek effect. Only odd-numbered ones are good: NT 3, 5 (XP), 7, and 9.
You won't get far w/o Chinese language. I applied for a TEMP job in Japan, only 100 miles from the just-exploded nuclear, when they were having trouble finding workers, and still didn't get it. They said it was lack of japanese.
That's how I am..... except when it's something I love like Star Trek or Babylon 5. Then I want the HD and that's only available (for me) through Bluray.
Of and I disagree the adoption is slow. DVD took almost ten years to outsell VHS. Bluray's only been the "official" HD standard for 3-4 years now. In ten years I'm sure it will outsell the older standard
Except in this case.
YES of course Windows 8 will succeed, just as Blurays have succeeded, despite rampant claims that discs are no longer needed. You can't just pull everything off the net, when you either have slow connections (Dialup or Economy cable) or data limits (250GB). That means you need a base OS to run the programs offline. Or for privacy.
>>> the police have no responsibility to give the recording in full to the defense
Yes they do. If it's later discovered they were withholding evidence, the defendent is automatically freed because he didn't get a fair trial. So the police have a responsibility to turn over everything (else they'd just be stupid).
>>>force you to turn them off, confiscate and erase the evidence
Yes they can FORCE you to do it. That's what government is best at: Use of force to suppress natural rights. BUT you can also prosecute the cops under the law for destruction of material evidence. He would be fined or demoted.
DMCA really isn't that bad. It provides a way for artists to protect their copyright over their work, simply by sending a notice to the website, "It appears you or your user is infringing upon my work without permission."
The website or user can respond immediately to say, "Yes it's infringing. I removed it," or "No it isn't infringing. Reactivate my account per the DMCA law." Quick and easy way of dealing with these things, rather than being drug to court. See my signature for an example.
Why doesn't our president let the Senate vote on ACTA? He's holding the people hostage to a treaty that he signed, and is enforcing upon us, but has never been ratified.
As for the EU: I agree with the other poster they'll just pass ACTA later as some other form (probably through the unelected politburo or apparatchiks). Look how the EU overruled the French Assembly's banning of GM foods within its juris diction..... the 25 nations are not even states anymore. They are EU provinces. They have less power than a US state. Sad, sad times for our European cousins.
>>>I'd prefer to outlaw guns.
But when some future Julius Caesar takes-over as president, and starts writing his own laws (thus making the House/Senate impotent like the real Caesar did), how are we supposed to overthrow those dictator if we don't have guns?
>>>one of which is Massachusetts
Yes and that law is now nullified by the First Circuit Court of the U.S. which declared "citizens have a first amendment right to record their public officials in the performance of their duties." - Then they freed the citizen who was being charged under wiretap laws for recording an law enforcement officer.
In other words, cops may not force you to turn off your camera, per your 1st amendment "freedom of the press" right which allows not just recording conversation with pen-and-paper (like the old days) but also with audio or video.
QUOTE: "In at least one city, New Bedford, Mass., where sensors recorded a loud street argument that accompanied a fatal shooting last December, the system has raised questions about privacy and the reach of police surveillance, even in the service of reducing gun violence."
The Supreme Court has ruled people have no expectation of privacy in a public setting or publicly-open facility (like a mall). Note that also includes cops who try to make you turn-off your videocamera or audio recorder. They don't have any right to privacy either, and can not force you to turn them off, or confiscate & erase the evidence.
>>>You can wait a year or so and pay less to read copies of those books that make it to paperback
Okay. I do the same with videogames, waiting for them to drop from $60 to Greatest Hits pricing ($20) or clearance pricing ($10. Impatience wastes a lot of money. Being patient saves a lot of money.