Now, and throughout history, money isn't necessarily the great motivator. For individuals, the lust for power or the spread of one's ideology has historically been the great motivator for the major world changes, and I gave examples. Nobody who was simply lusting for money has done as much as they have.
Now we have the politicians supporting the ideologies of globalization and socialism (redistribution of wealth), leveraging climate change to further their causes. We have politicians staking their climbs to power and their legacies on pushing climate change. This is just a more modern instance of Mao and Stalin, those driven by ideology and the lust for power.
True, to a lesser extent we do have companies who stand to gain by climate change policies, and the politicians who are involved with those companies in order to gain. But that's chump change compared to the billions flowing into the climate change industry from governments.
Contrast all of that to some companies who get to spend their money to combat climate change theory, after billions have already been confiscated by their governments in order to promote it.
It is quite a scary statement completely with context, in fact even more damning, which is why I thanked the other poster for posting the whole context, not the partial context you posted, quoted from someone else.
I stopped listening to this totalitarian political hack back when he wanted to force us to let the government have the keys to all of our encryption. Al Gore was the administration's point man in the crypto wars of the 90s, and he wasn't on our side.
Probably the one positive thing about George W. Bush is that he prevented Al Gore from becoming President.
Are there an equal number of grants going to climate change skeptic research? Yeah, right. Somebody has to fund the opposition.
Even so, the governments have far more money to give than the oil and coal companies, especially when they already collect billions in taxes from those companies to help pay for the research to destroy them.
The politicians who stand to gain power, money and prestige by implementing climate policy.
"One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore, " -- Ottmar Edenhofer, UN IPCC
Tempest can't be played correctly without a potentiometer (the round dial), Missile Command can't be played correctly without a big trackball, and Battlezone can't be played without the two sticks that mirror real-life tracked vehicle driving (which I've done).
However good the graphics and mechanics are recreated, it doesn't work without the controllers the games were designed for.
Take your 7.62mm AK round. Two rounds in that same diameter are very common for hunting:.308 Winchester (a.k.a. 7.62x51 NATO) and the.30-06 Springfield (a.k.a. 7.62x63). Both carry a heavier bullet with a higher velocity, and have far more impact energy (up to double).
While standard police armor will be easily penetrated by either, the modern military composite inserts will stop them, even a 30-06 with a steel penetrator core.
It's amazing how far armor has come, just 20 years ago an average hunting rifle could make it through any personal body armor. But it probably still can't save you from the magnum rounds, like a.300 Win Mag or a.338 Lapua Magnum.
In very many places the law disallows suits over things. We don't need thousands of suits clogging up the courts over issues that have already been decided by law or already have an alternate legal venue prescribed by law.
People who bring such suits need to be punished for abuse of the court system.
Generally, countries without armies have official defense treaties with other countries that do have armies. The US, would defend Costa Rica and other countries in the Americas and Pacific, France would defend Monaco, and Australia would defend many Pacific countries. Others are unofficial, such as everybody knows the Italian Army would defend the Vatican were it attacked.
Bhutan, having a small standing army, is not one of them, although India would protect them should the Chinese decide to invade.
Climate change policy is about redistribution of wealth and globalization, not saving the environment.
"One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore, " -- Ottmar Edenhofer, UN IPCC
It is a tool for those seeking power, nothing more.
All they needed was for the message that they got emails and are looking for dirt to be louder than the message that they found nothing.
For example they already worked to tarnish her image by bringing a large number of frivolous ethics complaints against her as governor. It doesn't matter that all were later found to be baseless because of two reasons:
First, they can now say "Palin has had X ethics complaints against her." Tell only part of the truth to commit libel without actually committing libel because it's a technically true statement.
Second, they can hope that a complicit media will put the charges on front page, and then put the dismissal of the charges on page 22. All people will remember is that she was charged, and the assumption will be that she is dirty.
It doesn't seem to be working too well this time though. Even the LA Times is writing about how the emails show no dirt; however, they are trying to frame it as "she was an average governor" as in to say this isn't an exceptional person you'd want as President.
They have an obsessive compulsion that she must be destroyed!
She must be mocked at every turn. Even when she says something historically correct, mock her for being incorrect and ignorant. The mainstream press will likely only report the mocking, not the fact that she was right and her attackers were ignorant.
I have seriously never seen anything like this before. Even though the left hated Bush, it didn't rise to this level of obsessiveness. Even the birthers don't seem to have this obscene level of obsessive hatred toward Obama.
I really don't like much about Palin, but her ability to send leftists into an apoplectic fit with just a few words is wonderful.
They had to get emails on other servers, including non-government servers Palin was using. Some of these sources were found out partway through. Plus they switched naming of all accounts to @alaska.gov during the period, so after a search and partial processing, they had to do it all over again for another batch of emails. There are also indications they screwed up at some point trying to export emails.
Then after all of that lawyers have to go over every single page by hand to make sure no attorney-client privilege applied to any communications, no purely personal information was there, and nothing released could violate any security. After all that, it has to be printed, boxed and released.
It doesn't help that this was a blanket request for tens of thousands of emails, not targeted whatsoever. Fishing expeditions take a long time to fulfill, and in this case cost the government hundreds of thousands of dollars, a cost that was NOT passed on to those who requested it. They were only charged the copying fee.
They desperately wanted them for the 2008 election, but didn't get them. Now the media was drooling over their release coming into this election season, even openly enlisting readers to dig through them to find damaging material to kick her out of this election.
And all they show is a governor doing her job.
Oh horrors, she arranged a baby shower for her kid with the media, demanding all gifts go to families of deployed soldiers. What a bad person!
Hundreds of millions of dollars up front by Apple, and they will probably get a big chunk of that $25.
I'm okay with it. I have a huge music library that I started ripping in the 90s from 128 kb MP3 to 160 kb AAC, and this is a perfect chance for an across-the-board upgrade to 256 kb AAC. Plus all the metadata should get cleaned up.
"You are completely right. We can burn all the fossil fuels we want forever and it will never change the temperature of the planet by a single degree."
Being a skeptic about global warming/climate change/whatever you're calling it today does NOT necessarily mean a person has a selfish reason, such as wanting to burn more fossil fuels with a clean conscience. I think we need to burn less gas at least for the pollution since I've seen the effects, having had to live through smog alerts before.
"However, unless you believe that the Earth is some sort of oil factory that we can crank up at our convenience, you must know that eventually there won't be anymore."
True, but we've become jaded by the false predictions of the chicken littles. We were supposed to have run out of oil by now -- run out of food too. We were supposed to be doing a Soylent Green by now according to them.
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Now, and throughout history, money isn't necessarily the great motivator. For individuals, the lust for power or the spread of one's ideology has historically been the great motivator for the major world changes, and I gave examples. Nobody who was simply lusting for money has done as much as they have.
Now we have the politicians supporting the ideologies of globalization and socialism (redistribution of wealth), leveraging climate change to further their causes. We have politicians staking their climbs to power and their legacies on pushing climate change. This is just a more modern instance of Mao and Stalin, those driven by ideology and the lust for power.
True, to a lesser extent we do have companies who stand to gain by climate change policies, and the politicians who are involved with those companies in order to gain. But that's chump change compared to the billions flowing into the climate change industry from governments.
Contrast all of that to some companies who get to spend their money to combat climate change theory, after billions have already been confiscated by their governments in order to promote it.
It is quite a scary statement completely with context, in fact even more damning, which is why I thanked the other poster for posting the whole context, not the partial context you posted, quoted from someone else.
What have the industrial giants achieved in this world in their lust for money?
What have politicians achieved in their lust for power?
You name some industrial giants.
I'll name Stalin, Mao, Genghis Khan, Hitler and Pol Pot. They didn't do it for the money.
The full context is much scarier, but I only wanted to post a quote that got the point across, not the whole thing.
Maybe you can help tell Gore to STFU.
I stopped listening to this totalitarian political hack back when he wanted to force us to let the government have the keys to all of our encryption. Al Gore was the administration's point man in the crypto wars of the 90s, and he wasn't on our side.
Probably the one positive thing about George W. Bush is that he prevented Al Gore from becoming President.
They expect to be paid off in the future.
Are there an equal number of grants going to climate change skeptic research? Yeah, right. Somebody has to fund the opposition.
Even so, the governments have far more money to give than the oil and coal companies, especially when they already collect billions in taxes from those companies to help pay for the research to destroy them.
The politicians who stand to gain power, money and prestige by implementing climate policy.
"One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore, " -- Ottmar Edenhofer, UN IPCC
I refuse to submit them to state-sanctioned sexual assault.
Tempest can't be played correctly without a potentiometer (the round dial), Missile Command can't be played correctly without a big trackball, and Battlezone can't be played without the two sticks that mirror real-life tracked vehicle driving (which I've done).
However good the graphics and mechanics are recreated, it doesn't work without the controllers the games were designed for.
"They" is the people who attacked WTC twice, some embassies, and other places, and those allied with them.
"Us" is Americans, and in fact Western society in general.
"Here" is the US, or in general Western or non-Muslim countries.
I guess you haven't heard about the jihad going on that aims to make the entire world Muslim, all others must convert, be subservient or die.
They want us dead. It's really quite that simple. It is much more effective to reach out to where they are and kill them before they get here.
Take your 7.62mm AK round. Two rounds in that same diameter are very common for hunting: .308 Winchester (a.k.a. 7.62x51 NATO) and the .30-06 Springfield (a.k.a. 7.62x63). Both carry a heavier bullet with a higher velocity, and have far more impact energy (up to double).
While standard police armor will be easily penetrated by either, the modern military composite inserts will stop them, even a 30-06 with a steel penetrator core.
It's amazing how far armor has come, just 20 years ago an average hunting rifle could make it through any personal body armor. But it probably still can't save you from the magnum rounds, like a .300 Win Mag or a .338 Lapua Magnum.
In very many places the law disallows suits over things. We don't need thousands of suits clogging up the courts over issues that have already been decided by law or already have an alternate legal venue prescribed by law.
People who bring such suits need to be punished for abuse of the court system.
Generally, countries without armies have official defense treaties with other countries that do have armies. The US, would defend Costa Rica and other countries in the Americas and Pacific, France would defend Monaco, and Australia would defend many Pacific countries. Others are unofficial, such as everybody knows the Italian Army would defend the Vatican were it attacked.
Bhutan, having a small standing army, is not one of them, although India would protect them should the Chinese decide to invade.
Climate change policy is about redistribution of wealth and globalization, not saving the environment.
"One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore, " -- Ottmar Edenhofer, UN IPCC
It is a tool for those seeking power, nothing more.
All they needed was for the message that they got emails and are looking for dirt to be louder than the message that they found nothing.
For example they already worked to tarnish her image by bringing a large number of frivolous ethics complaints against her as governor. It doesn't matter that all were later found to be baseless because of two reasons:
First, they can now say "Palin has had X ethics complaints against her." Tell only part of the truth to commit libel without actually committing libel because it's a technically true statement.
Second, they can hope that a complicit media will put the charges on front page, and then put the dismissal of the charges on page 22. All people will remember is that she was charged, and the assumption will be that she is dirty.
It doesn't seem to be working too well this time though. Even the LA Times is writing about how the emails show no dirt; however, they are trying to frame it as "she was an average governor" as in to say this isn't an exceptional person you'd want as President.
I mean serious burning, seething hatred.
They have an obsessive compulsion that she must be destroyed!
She must be mocked at every turn. Even when she says something historically correct, mock her for being incorrect and ignorant. The mainstream press will likely only report the mocking, not the fact that she was right and her attackers were ignorant.
I have seriously never seen anything like this before. Even though the left hated Bush, it didn't rise to this level of obsessiveness. Even the birthers don't seem to have this obscene level of obsessive hatred toward Obama.
I really don't like much about Palin, but her ability to send leftists into an apoplectic fit with just a few words is wonderful.
They had to get emails on other servers, including non-government servers Palin was using. Some of these sources were found out partway through. Plus they switched naming of all accounts to @alaska.gov during the period, so after a search and partial processing, they had to do it all over again for another batch of emails. There are also indications they screwed up at some point trying to export emails.
Then after all of that lawyers have to go over every single page by hand to make sure no attorney-client privilege applied to any communications, no purely personal information was there, and nothing released could violate any security. After all that, it has to be printed, boxed and released.
It doesn't help that this was a blanket request for tens of thousands of emails, not targeted whatsoever. Fishing expeditions take a long time to fulfill, and in this case cost the government hundreds of thousands of dollars, a cost that was NOT passed on to those who requested it. They were only charged the copying fee.
Like Obama.
Actually, he effectively quite one-third of the way through since he was in campaign mode after two years.
They desperately wanted them for the 2008 election, but didn't get them. Now the media was drooling over their release coming into this election season, even openly enlisting readers to dig through them to find damaging material to kick her out of this election.
And all they show is a governor doing her job.
Oh horrors, she arranged a baby shower for her kid with the media, demanding all gifts go to families of deployed soldiers. What a bad person!
Still not very cheap to distribute that on a chip.
"You'll be a much better skeptic if you learn a little about the subject"
Automatically claim your opponent is ignorant, check.
"Then people will point to the fact that we still haven't run out as if that proves we never will"
Falsely portray your opposition's opinion, check. I just stated it will definitely run out, yet you post that.
Hundreds of millions of dollars up front by Apple, and they will probably get a big chunk of that $25.
I'm okay with it. I have a huge music library that I started ripping in the 90s from 128 kb MP3 to 160 kb AAC, and this is a perfect chance for an across-the-board upgrade to 256 kb AAC. Plus all the metadata should get cleaned up.
"You are completely right. We can burn all the fossil fuels we want forever and it will never change the temperature of the planet by a single degree."
Being a skeptic about global warming/climate change/whatever you're calling it today does NOT necessarily mean a person has a selfish reason, such as wanting to burn more fossil fuels with a clean conscience. I think we need to burn less gas at least for the pollution since I've seen the effects, having had to live through smog alerts before.
"However, unless you believe that the Earth is some sort of oil factory that we can crank up at our convenience, you must know that eventually there won't be anymore."
True, but we've become jaded by the false predictions of the chicken littles. We were supposed to have run out of oil by now -- run out of food too. We were supposed to be doing a Soylent Green by now according to them.
The powers that be do not like individuals making such important choices for themselves. They know what is better.