Till we actually throw the bums out they will continue to be the bumholes they are.
Vote libertarian, green, independent, heck communist if you must. Just get everyone to NEVER AGAIN vote for a Rep or Dem and perhaps we can change things.
The whole WikiLeaks thing has shown that the secret papers of the US government were not properly secured. And had this information gone to someone other than WikiLeaks (like the Taliban or some foreign government that views us as the enemy) instead of a publicity scandal we would just have people dieing without knowing why.. In fact with how porous the setup was I am sure this WAS happening. But now the Govt is forced to fix that issue (without forcing them they would not have changed, just try to change any government's mind about anything) and we the people are learning some uncomfortable truths that we do need to know.
It happened because we weren't ready to burn the town over it. If we made it a political issue that politicians must take a stand on something might have been done. (vote this way, or we won't vote for you next time)
If this data had not gone to Wikileaks, but instead to Al Queda we would never had known about the security problems in the interagency data sharing network that the government uses and instead a whole lot of lives would have been lost.
People are all up in arms for this becoming public, but had it not become public it could have been far worse.
Like how the cahora bassa Hydroelectric Dam stabilized Mozambique since it's construction in the 70's with enough power for all of southern Africa? Wait, the project was continually sabotaged, the north side never completed and the part that was finished ran at a mere fraction of it's capability for 30 years...
Of course Africa's problems are all related to the lack of resources (on the most resource rich continent on the planet) and not politics at all, it can't possibly be politics at all.
Sure, but DDT is safe to humans. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/710158/posts "And DDT is extraordinarily safe for humans. Prof Kenneth Mellanby lectured on it for more than 40 years, and during each lecture he would eat a pinch."
And DDT does not hurt wildlife either, bird populations were increasing during the years DDT was in the most widespread use.
People deny evolution. People deny global warming...
People are incredibly good at denying that reality exists, especially when its reality they don't want to comprehend.
And people try to prevent evolution by preventing global warming and human activity.
"Ooh there is a breed of purple moth that only eats when a green turtle poops on a specific rock. A human moved the rock, now that species will die out. Meanwhile a different breed of purple moth has learned to eat when a human moves a rock.."
Which species will survive, and do we have a obligation to decide?
Sure there are things that will affect the value in that time, but affect it enough that having a 24hour minimum on trades would be a bad thing? I think not.
I have always thought that if you buy stocks that pay dividends you should have to keep them for a minimum of a year, and if you buy stocks that don't pay you should have to keep them for a minimum of 24 hours before being able to sell them. If you short stocks the sale should take 24 hours to take affect.
I mean really, what could happen in 24 hours that would honestly affect the value of a publicly traded company? Even the oil spill has taken weeks and months to lower BP's value, and really in the long run it is probably time to buy BP stock.
Of that a tiny percentage reaches the floor, 20-50% stays in the middle ocean for a few decades, and the rest stays on the top and dies re-releasing the CO2 back into the air.
Each ton of iron smelted from ore creates 2.5 tons of CO2 (not counting transportation), about equal to that tiny percentage that actually gets sequestered, so if you have to move the iron at all (which you do if you want it out of the ground) then your net result in a few decades is adding CO2 to the air.
Not that I am actually all that worried about C02.. I think Methane is a bigger problem and easier target.
You've never looked at the history of Africa have you? Africa has more natural wealth (Gold, Diamonds, Zinc, Copper, etc etc) in the ground than the rest of the world combined, and look how well that is working for them.
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no. vote for anyone other than those two parties.
Till we actually throw the bums out they will continue to be the bumholes they are.
Vote libertarian, green, independent, heck communist if you must. Just get everyone to NEVER AGAIN vote for a Rep or Dem and perhaps we can change things.
No the problem with Fiat Currency is that Fiats are made in Italy and are quite small vehicles, so we are limiting our capacities..
wish I had mod points.
Seems like so many people are only able to handle what they have been preprogrammed for.
"This isn't what I unrealistically expected it to be, I must hate it."
Bah, Fringe might not be science, but it is entertaining, and I am sorry it doesn't fit in your preconceived box of what TV must be.
The whole WikiLeaks thing has shown that the secret papers of the US government were not properly secured. And had this information gone to someone other than WikiLeaks (like the Taliban or some foreign government that views us as the enemy) instead of a publicity scandal we would just have people dieing without knowing why.. In fact with how porous the setup was I am sure this WAS happening. But now the Govt is forced to fix that issue (without forcing them they would not have changed, just try to change any government's mind about anything) and we the people are learning some uncomfortable truths that we do need to know.
It happened because we weren't ready to burn the town over it.
If we made it a political issue that politicians must take a stand on something might have been done. (vote this way, or we won't vote for you next time)
Obviously our next move is to burn the town.
It is a good thing and here is why:
If this data had not gone to Wikileaks, but instead to Al Queda we would never had known about the security problems in the interagency data sharing network that the government uses and instead a whole lot of lives would have been lost.
People are all up in arms for this becoming public, but had it not become public it could have been far worse.
First good thing Michael Moore has ever done.
I first read this as "cost to launch dwarfs" and thought you might be advocating using little people instead of regular sized people as astronauts..
Seems logical to me, if not very PC
Like how the cahora bassa Hydroelectric Dam stabilized Mozambique since it's construction in the 70's with enough power for all of southern Africa? Wait, the project was continually sabotaged, the north side never completed and the part that was finished ran at a mere fraction of it's capability for 30 years...
Of course Africa's problems are all related to the lack of resources (on the most resource rich continent on the planet) and not politics at all, it can't possibly be politics at all.
Sure, but DDT is safe to humans. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/710158/posts
"And DDT is extraordinarily safe for humans. Prof Kenneth Mellanby lectured on it for more than 40 years, and during each lecture he would eat a pinch."
And DDT does not hurt wildlife either, bird populations were increasing during the years DDT was in the most widespread use.
more info that is middle of the road:
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2428/was-rachel-carson-a-fraud-and-is-ddt-actually-safe-for-humans
install the system yourself from: http://www.safemart.com/
then sign up for their $10/month monitoring..
that or a big dog.
Seagate is already selling a 3TB drive.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/200031/big_seagate_3tb_drive_ups_storage_ante.html
Now that we can build Heisenberg compensators?
Actually true to an extent. Methane creates as much global warming as CO2 and is much easier to deal with.
Combine Methane control with Soot control:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/07/soot-control/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+(Wired%3A+Index+3+(Top+Stories+2))&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher
And we would probably be just fine leaving CO2 alone.
People deny evolution. People deny global warming...
People are incredibly good at denying that reality exists, especially when its reality they don't want to comprehend.
And people try to prevent evolution by preventing global warming and human activity.
"Ooh there is a breed of purple moth that only eats when a green turtle poops on a specific rock. A human moved the rock, now that species will die out.
Meanwhile a different breed of purple moth has learned to eat when a human moves a rock.."
Which species will survive, and do we have a obligation to decide?
Going back to an agrarian society with our current population would be worse on the environment..
Millions of people fleeing the cities, cutting down trees to burn to stay warm at night, more farm animals needed to pull plows etc..
http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/thank-you-internal-combustion-engine-for-cleaning-up-the-environment/
the anti-nuclear crowd should be renamed the anti-braincell crowd
DDT is safe, and doesn't thin bird shells: http://spectator.org/archives/2005/02/25/ddt-fraud-and-tragedy
Total scam and lies for the purpose of raising $
Sure there are things that will affect the value in that time, but affect it enough that having a 24hour minimum on trades would be a bad thing? I think not.
I have always thought that if you buy stocks that pay dividends you should have to keep them for a minimum of a year, and if you buy stocks that don't pay you should have to keep them for a minimum of 24 hours before being able to sell them. If you short stocks the sale should take 24 hours to take affect.
I mean really, what could happen in 24 hours that would honestly affect the value of a publicly traded company? Even the oil spill has taken weeks and months to lower BP's value, and really in the long run it is probably time to buy BP stock.
who cares about efficiency?
If you make a solar cell that is 100% efficient but costs $10billion / watt to make, who cares?
On the other hand if you make one that is only 1% efficient but only cost .01c / watt to make, that would change the world.
Each ton of Iron dumped into the ocean pulls about 1000 tons of carbon out of the air.
http://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/viewArticle.do?id=34167
Of that a tiny percentage reaches the floor, 20-50% stays in the middle ocean for a few decades, and the rest stays on the top and dies re-releasing the CO2 back into the air.
Each ton of iron smelted from ore creates 2.5 tons of CO2 (not counting transportation), about equal to that tiny percentage that actually gets sequestered, so if you have to move the iron at all (which you do if you want it out of the ground) then your net result in a few decades is adding CO2 to the air.
Not that I am actually all that worried about C02.. I think Methane is a bigger problem and easier target.
You've never looked at the history of Africa have you? Africa has more natural wealth (Gold, Diamonds, Zinc, Copper, etc etc) in the ground than the rest of the world combined, and look how well that is working for them.
Caffeine is a known performance enhancer.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/health/nutrition/26best.html
Of course that is for non addicts.
I have one of the old Samsung drives from 2007, a 80GB with 256MB of flash.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_drive
http://www.samsung.com/us/consumer/office/hard-disk-drives/hybrid-hdd-flashon/HM08HHI/index.idx?pagetype=prd_detail