One of the reasons I abandoned the Republican party was because they could never face up to their own failures or take responsibilities for their mistakes
I don't think those are failures and mistakes. The Republican political philosophy is that "the proper role of government is to help the rich get richer". They rarely fail or make mistakes on that particular topic. Poor people starving or dying because they can't afford medical treatment isn't a problem for them.
They just can't come out and say what they really stand for, or they'd never win an election.
And they certainly aren't going to admit that their party's actual name is Government Of the People(, By the Rich, For the Rich).
Ronmey care -- supported by a majority of the state's citizenry, and passed by a bipartisan majority in a state legislature. ObamaTax -- crafted in closed-door meetings, opposed by the majority of citizens, not understood by congress at the time of the vote, and "reconciled" into existence, whatever the fuck that means.
Uh... if you followed the news with a third-grader's attention span you'd know that Republican committee members wrought *massive* changes to the bill before it came to a vote. (And then voted against it even after the Democrats caved on almost every point.)
And I don't know why people call it "Obamacare". He wasn't exactly out there using his bully pulpit to make sure we got a good law out of the process.
How about fuck you, anonymous. Too many people equate liberal with liberty when, in fact, the opposite is quite the case - they're a mutually exclusive arrangement.
Only if you're using the FOX notions of what liberal and liberty mean.
The more that people see this, the better off this country will be. Not that Repubs are much better, but they are. Libertarian is the way.
Libertarians are just Republicans who aren't pretending to be on a Mission from God.
Don't like my opinions or what I post, use your mod points or stfu.
Or maybe reply? But no, your notion of "liberty" is "my way or the highway".
According to the article, the Democrats were the ones who suppressed this information. How do you Democrats feel now?
Probably pretty much the same as they did the first time you posted that. Though perhaps a few felt a change in the few seconds between reading the two posts.
Translation... If the temperatures go up in an area, its global warming. If the temperatures go down in an area, its global warming. If the temperatures stay the same in an area, its global warming.
In other words, he is saying no matter what happens, weather wise, that is bad it is global warming and would not have happened if you just paid the government money for the CO2 that you create.
Actually, "global warming" just means more heat in the atmosphere and oceans, and more thermal energy means more stuff will happen.
It does *not* mean that every place will be warmer than before by the same amount. If melting ice from Greenland shuts down the Gulf Stream, northwest Europe will suffer horribly - from the cold.
OTOH, a given heat wave doesn't prove global warming any more than a given cold snap disproves it. What matters is the trend in the average... you know, those boring record-keeping and analysis things that scientists have to do.
For an amateur to get a rough idea without having to consult world-wide records collected over centuries, just count how many record daily highs and record daily lows you get over a long time span, like a year, and look at the ratio at the end. Most places - but not all - have been breaking many more record highs than record lows in recent years. And that trend was noticed before the current heat wave began.
Our infrastructure was built 40 years ago and had a 25 year life expectancy. Every day that things dont simply fall apart is a blessing. Since apparently putting people to work rebuilding and improving things would be socialsim, so I guess there's nothing we can do about it.
FWIW, worries about our infrastructure started at least 30 years ago. The eternal problem is that politicians want their names associated with new stuff, but there's no glamour to be had for legislating money to paint rusty bridges or repave ragged-out highways.
Lots of bus stops where buses are expected to sit for a while are paved with concrete because of this problem. When it's really hot out, buses sink into asphalt.
I think the actual reason for the concrete is that the frequent stops by heavy vehicles "pull" the blacktop like taffy, making a wavy spot on the road.
You get the same effect at stop lights on highways/boulevards that carry a lot of heavy vehicles.
What implications does this have for the future of Microsoft?
It means they failed to pwn the internet, thank all the gods
But after Netscape withered it was Apache + BSD servers that kept them from it, not Firefox. If Microsoft had won on that front, they could have easily forced a MSInternet on us.
It was a close thing, but settled quite a few years ago. This story is about a symptom of *that* failure, not a failure in its own right. No need to use Microsoft products, if Microsoft doesn't pwn the infrastructure or file format.
They haven't given up pwning the PC yet, though. (New "secure" boot loader - mostly secure for Microsoft.)
Are you saying that all the laws and regulations a certain group of people are always complaining about would be OK, if they were state laws and regulations rather than Federal laws and regulations?
Drink loads of buttermilk (the salty/sour ones, my choice). It is culturally used as a coolant in parts of middle east and most of India since the days of the dinosaurs.
Yeah, I always liked dinosaur milk better than the bovine stuff people drink nowadays. But it's gotten really hard to find.
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Is that a new competition at the Olympics this year?
Looks like their thoughts on consumption didn't have much... gumption?
At any rate, they didn't function.
The Democrats did it! The Democrats did it! The Democrats did it! The Democrats did it! I am going to shout it at the top of my lungs until
you die from TB?
None of the linked articles even contain the word Democrat. What the fuck are you talking about?
He's talking about Republican Reality (tm).
Probably his dad is paying him to watch Slashdot and intervene whenever he can.
Whos the governor of florida? Republican Rick Scott
Which party controls both the florida house and florida senate...Republicans
Who voted to defund the TB hospital in Florida...Republican state legislators
Which governor said he would not accept federal "Obamacare" funding to expend medicaid which provides TB medication ....Republican Rick Scott.
See, just like he said: it's all the Democrats' fault!
One of the reasons I abandoned the Republican party was because they could never face up to their own failures or take responsibilities for their mistakes
I don't think those are failures and mistakes. The Republican political philosophy is that "the proper role of government is to help the rich get richer". They rarely fail or make mistakes on that particular topic. Poor people starving or dying because they can't afford medical treatment isn't a problem for them.
They just can't come out and say what they really stand for, or they'd never win an election.
And they certainly aren't going to admit that their party's actual name is Government Of the People(, By the Rich, For the Rich).
Ronmey care -- supported by a majority of the state's citizenry, and passed by a bipartisan majority in a state legislature.
ObamaTax -- crafted in closed-door meetings, opposed by the majority of citizens, not understood by congress at the time of the vote, and "reconciled" into existence, whatever the fuck that means.
Uh... if you followed the news with a third-grader's attention span you'd know that Republican committee members wrought *massive* changes to the bill before it came to a vote. (And then voted against it even after the Democrats caved on almost every point.)
And I don't know why people call it "Obamacare". He wasn't exactly out there using his bully pulpit to make sure we got a good law out of the process.
Isn't this the Libertarian paradise the Ron Paul legions envisage?
I don't know, I've never been to Somalia.
Gaah I am so sick of you libertards
It's "libertardians". Otherwise people will think you're talking about standard "libtards".
How about fuck you, anonymous. Too many people equate liberal with liberty when, in fact, the opposite is quite the case - they're a mutually exclusive arrangement.
Only if you're using the FOX notions of what liberal and liberty mean.
The more that people see this, the better off this country will be. Not that Repubs are much better, but they are. Libertarian is the way.
Libertarians are just Republicans who aren't pretending to be on a Mission from God.
Don't like my opinions or what I post, use your mod points or stfu.
Or maybe reply? But no, your notion of "liberty" is "my way or the highway".
According to the article, the Democrats were the ones who suppressed this information. How do you Democrats feel now?
Probably pretty much the same as they did the first time you posted that. Though perhaps a few felt a change in the few seconds between reading the two posts.
Well sure, but you are talking about Phoenix. A place in a desert, named after a flaming bird. Most cities aren't used to that much heat.
Wonder what it's like in Hell Gate Montana this week.
Quick everybody! buy up some carbon credits to stop this from happening!
I was going to suggest buying stock in runway repair companies.
Translation... If the temperatures go up in an area, its global warming. If the temperatures go down in an area, its global warming. If the temperatures stay the same in an area, its global warming.
In other words, he is saying no matter what happens, weather wise, that is bad it is global warming and would not have happened if you just paid the government money for the CO2 that you create.
Actually, "global warming" just means more heat in the atmosphere and oceans, and more thermal energy means more stuff will happen.
It does *not* mean that every place will be warmer than before by the same amount. If melting ice from Greenland shuts down the Gulf Stream, northwest Europe will suffer horribly - from the cold.
OTOH, a given heat wave doesn't prove global warming any more than a given cold snap disproves it. What matters is the trend in the average... you know, those boring record-keeping and analysis things that scientists have to do.
For an amateur to get a rough idea without having to consult world-wide records collected over centuries, just count how many record daily highs and record daily lows you get over a long time span, like a year, and look at the ratio at the end. Most places - but not all - have been breaking many more record highs than record lows in recent years. And that trend was noticed before the current heat wave began.
this has nothing to do with global warming and everything to do with the expansion of the federal government.
Also, Drudge is reporting that the airplane was discovered to be a closet liberal, faking the whole thing to boost the whole fake AGW thing.
I hear that temperatures there can be like 50 degrees celsius (or 120 fahrenheit).
I remember a news story about it hitting 150F in some rural area of Turkey one time.
archaeologists would be digging the bones of widebodied aircraft out of the tarpit centuries from now.
Great metaphor!
Our infrastructure was built 40 years ago and had a 25 year life expectancy. Every day that things dont simply fall apart is a blessing. Since apparently putting people to work rebuilding and improving things would be socialsim, so I guess there's nothing we can do about it.
FWIW, worries about our infrastructure started at least 30 years ago. The eternal problem is that politicians want their names associated with new stuff, but there's no glamour to be had for legislating money to paint rusty bridges or repave ragged-out highways.
Lots of bus stops where buses are expected to sit for a while are paved with concrete because of this problem. When it's really hot out, buses sink into asphalt.
I think the actual reason for the concrete is that the frequent stops by heavy vehicles "pull" the blacktop like taffy, making a wavy spot on the road.
You get the same effect at stop lights on highways/boulevards that carry a lot of heavy vehicles.
...they aren't very good at stealing innovations these days, now are they?
FTFY
What implications does this have for the future of Microsoft?
It means they failed to pwn the internet, thank all the gods
But after Netscape withered it was Apache + BSD servers that kept them from it, not Firefox. If Microsoft had won on that front, they could have easily forced a MSInternet on us.
It was a close thing, but settled quite a few years ago. This story is about a symptom of *that* failure, not a failure in its own right. No need to use Microsoft products, if Microsoft doesn't pwn the infrastructure or file format.
They haven't given up pwning the PC yet, though. (New "secure" boot loader - mostly secure for Microsoft.)
It's not like they had a positive image beforehand.
Are you saying that all the laws and regulations a certain group of people are always complaining about would be OK, if they were state laws and regulations rather than Federal laws and regulations?
You insensitive clod, so even though it's hot outside, it stays relatively cool down here.
Doesn't your mom ever tell you to get out and get some exercise?
Drink loads of buttermilk (the salty/sour ones, my choice). It is culturally used as a coolant in parts of middle east and most of India since the days of the dinosaurs.
Yeah, I always liked dinosaur milk better than the bovine stuff people drink nowadays. But it's gotten really hard to find.