Pollution is an important consideration. Too much carbon spewing into the environment is a concern. But then so are jobs, the economy, starvation, wars, etc...
We know that in a short while (20-40 years) non-carbon burning sources of energy will be dominant players. All one needs to do is to look at a graph and witness the exponential growth since the 1970s.
We need to go from the here-and-now to the near future. Fracking and drilling makes sense here and now. Building a pipeline to bring the oil to the refineries makes sense in the here and now.
- Not drilling is stupid.
- Funding religious zealots does not make sense.
- There is no extra pollution to drilling here as opposed to "there." IMHO there would be less pollution if we drilled here as so many people would be concerned and paying attention.
- Using trucks and trains to send oil (compared to a pipeline) is stupid.
People who are opposed to the pipeline are doing so for ideological purposes.
We need the oil NOW. Better to drill here than Saudi Arabia.
That being the case we (as a society) should stop supporting breeding (automatic food stamps, etc... for poor breeders).
So, what do we do? Let kids starve? No. Evn if you're heartless, that leads to riots and other bad things.
Here's an idea. Pay women to get their tubes tied. (It can be reversed when they get the money to do so.)
Pay them a decent amount (say $250,000 to start the conversation rolling) and give them options (school, purchasing a house) on how to spend it. (A cocaine binge and back on the street isn't an option.)
Just a thought. With automation we have too many f**king people on this planet.
The blockchain concept is perfect for YOU to store your medical information (or any other information). The issue is distributing the keys to doctors, insurance, gov't etc...
You can store (and add to,) your records easily; and nobody can see it without knowing your "VERY_SECRET_PASSWORD".
But now, here's the problem. How do you disseminate the information to others? And how do you do this if you're in a coma?
Then someone else needs access to this "VERY_SECRET_PASSWORD". And who is that? The government? Insurance companies? That is the problem. Not securely storing it on the blockchain.
The citizens of the US decide immigration laws through their representatives. What makes that concept so hard for you to understand.
When was the last time one of your representatives asked your opinion about a proposed new law? I'm willing to bet it's never happened, because it's certainly never happened to me.
We have a representative democracy. We elect people to represent us. Hence we decide through our representatives.
If you're concerned about the aloofness of Imperial Washington then elect those who want to pare it down. There are plenty of people who want to do so. The federal government should deal with federal problems (eg: immigration) and everything else ought to be at the state level.
The point is that the Executive Branch does not write laws. It enforces them. The EO are there to help streamline the means by which the laws are enforced. They are not there as a means of ignoring or subverting the laws.
The laws, good or bad, are created by the Legislative Branch.
Should you want the law changed. Change the law. Don't (if you're the president) ignore it. Don't if you're a citizen applaud the president for not enforcing the law.
Else, what have we? We have an Executive Branch that can do whatever the f**k it wants.
There are many counties with large gun ownership and low crime rates. Crime rates as low as in Europe.
I'm blocked at work from getting these stats.
The point I'm contesting is that gun ownership leads to murder. It does not.
If gun ownership lead to more murders we would see a correlation even if the overall murder rate went down.
Even in a broad sense we know this to be true. There are more guns today than 20 years ago. If there was a correlation between gun ownership and murder than we would see that those areas with a higher percentage of gun ownership would have more murders. We would see a correlation between the rate of growth of gun ownership and murders. We don't see that correlation.
It is foolishness, a lie in fact, to assert that more guns equals more murders.
As far as the gun lobby is concerned. I am the gun lobby. The gun lobby is not evil corporations. It is millions of people who pay GOA and NRA dues; who fund raise. The amount of monies provided by gun manufacturers to the total amount is small (less than a 1/4 of the monies received).
1. You're in favor of the President enforcing existing immigration laws. And
2. you're not in favor of Presidents doing extra-legal things like not following existing immigration laws.
US citizens decide who comes in.
We have laws regarding the hiring of illegal immigrants. I presume that you want the President to do his job and enforce the fu**ing law. As opposed to not doing his job by ignoring said laws.
You ignore the fact that there are more guns now than 20 years ago and yet shootings are down.
You also ignore the fact that there are many areas with lots of guns without violence.
Interesting, isn't it, that the most violent areas are the ones in which guns are already banned.
Just keep ignoring facts and expect to be paid attention to. See how far it gets you.
Who's threatening to do this? Not by Trump wanting to hold immigration to its LEGAL F**KING limits.
What dismantling? How about Obama who directed federal agencies to disobey the law (Immigration). The executive branch does not make laws. It's supposed to enforce them.
The citizens of the US decide immigration laws through their representatives. What makes that concept so hard for you to understand.
I want immigration. I am the children of immigrants, married to an immigrant. But it is the citizens of the US who decide immigration laws.. Not others.
I'm assume you left off the/sarc at the end of your comment.
For those less knowledgeable Mao and Stalin killed over 100 million of their own citizens in their attempt to create the ideal world. The new man, homo sovieticus and all those wonderful 5 year plans leaving millions starved and brutalized.
Now let's compare this with Comcast. Don't like Comcast? Don't fu**ing use it.
No. Dipsh!t. Infections are getting harder to cure for a lot of reasons. Among them were people who did not continue taking their medication hence "bio-engineering" drug-resistance bugs. For those not into fancy phrases - it's evolution at work.
Yeah. No doubt. People can say what they want. But, as a moderately interested outsider, he *seems* to be putting his money where his mouth is regarding mosquito netting and malaria medication.
That is not a cure but prevention is better than a cure. Of course the argument can be made that there was no money to be made in Africa anyway... but. It's a start. It's something.
As per our conversation - it's a good thing.
There will always be a need for pharma companies. There will always be diseases (especially as lifespans increase).
I'm a live-and-let-live libertarian and have been met with real hostility and been called a fascist for simple pro free-market arguments.
I have been yelled at for not considering Trump to be an Nazi.
I didn't vote for trump. I did not support him. I disagree with him on many, many things, But, for instance, wanting to control borders and limit immigration is not equal to being a fascist.
There is a real culture of intolerance on the left. Look at the riots over Milo. Don't like Milo? Don't go. Don't like Angela Davis. Don't go. But rioting over a talk.
GTFOH (not referring to you)
I was just commenting on the premise that greed == always bad == corporations.
Greed can also exist in individual scientists and bureaucrats and can be against the best interest of the corporation (or the funders of the project).
Cancer cures are a good thing.
Cancer cures requires work and investment capital.
Scientists need to be paid (along with everyone else including HR and people mopping the floors)
Investment capital needs to be repaid with dividends.
an individualist who is for the free-market == right wing.
right wing == fascists
therefore anyone not for the progressive economic prescription of the day is a fascist
since fascists are evil and not worthy of being listened to and deserve physical violence
therefore anyone who is not a progressive deserves to be ignored and physically assaulted.
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Pollution is an important consideration. Too much carbon spewing into the environment is a concern. But then so are jobs, the economy, starvation, wars, etc...
We know that in a short while (20-40 years) non-carbon burning sources of energy will be dominant players. All one needs to do is to look at a graph and witness the exponential growth since the 1970s.
We need to go from the here-and-now to the near future. Fracking and drilling makes sense here and now. Building a pipeline to bring the oil to the refineries makes sense in the here and now.
- Not drilling is stupid.
- Funding religious zealots does not make sense.
- There is no extra pollution to drilling here as opposed to "there." IMHO there would be less pollution if we drilled here as so many people would be concerned and paying attention.
- Using trucks and trains to send oil (compared to a pipeline) is stupid.
People who are opposed to the pipeline are doing so for ideological purposes.
We need the oil NOW. Better to drill here than Saudi Arabia.
nice stereotype there.
Anonymous Cowards are all trolls living in their mom's basement.
That being the case we (as a society) should stop supporting breeding (automatic food stamps, etc... for poor breeders).
So, what do we do? Let kids starve? No. Evn if you're heartless, that leads to riots and other bad things.
Here's an idea. Pay women to get their tubes tied. (It can be reversed when they get the money to do so.)
Pay them a decent amount (say $250,000 to start the conversation rolling) and give them options (school, purchasing a house) on how to spend it. (A cocaine binge and back on the street isn't an option.)
Just a thought. With automation we have too many f**king people on this planet.
The blockchain concept is perfect for YOU to store your medical information (or any other information). The issue is distributing the keys to doctors, insurance, gov't etc...
You can store (and add to,) your records easily; and nobody can see it without knowing your "VERY_SECRET_PASSWORD".
But now, here's the problem. How do you disseminate the information to others? And how do you do this if you're in a coma?
Then someone else needs access to this "VERY_SECRET_PASSWORD". And who is that? The government? Insurance companies? That is the problem. Not securely storing it on the blockchain.
What was the law in respect to Hillary Clinton?
What was the law in respect to Pence?
It's the law that counts. Not private emails.
Was there a law preventing this? If not then it's legal. If there was then he ought to be prosecuted.
It's their platform. They can do as they please. Don't like it, find somewhere else to post.
Both are the same. Both should get the same treatment.
I happen to feel that Twitter and the bakery can choose. And I can choose where I take my business based on their action.
It's my bakery. I can sell to whom I please. Don't like it find somewhere else to find a cake.
The citizens of the US decide immigration laws through their representatives. What makes that concept so hard for you to understand.
When was the last time one of your representatives asked your opinion about a proposed new law? I'm willing to bet it's never happened, because it's certainly never happened to me.
We have a representative democracy. We elect people to represent us. Hence we decide through our representatives.
If you're concerned about the aloofness of Imperial Washington then elect those who want to pare it down. There are plenty of people who want to do so. The federal government should deal with federal problems (eg: immigration) and everything else ought to be at the state level.
I'm in favor of immigration.
The point is that the Executive Branch does not write laws. It enforces them. The EO are there to help streamline the means by which the laws are enforced. They are not there as a means of ignoring or subverting the laws.
The laws, good or bad, are created by the Legislative Branch.
Should you want the law changed. Change the law. Don't (if you're the president) ignore it. Don't if you're a citizen applaud the president for not enforcing the law.
Else, what have we? We have an Executive Branch that can do whatever the f**k it wants.
There are many counties with large gun ownership and low crime rates. Crime rates as low as in Europe.
I'm blocked at work from getting these stats.
The point I'm contesting is that gun ownership leads to murder. It does not.
If gun ownership lead to more murders we would see a correlation even if the overall murder rate went down.
Even in a broad sense we know this to be true. There are more guns today than 20 years ago. If there was a correlation between gun ownership and murder than we would see that those areas with a higher percentage of gun ownership would have more murders. We would see a correlation between the rate of growth of gun ownership and murders. We don't see that correlation.
It is foolishness, a lie in fact, to assert that more guns equals more murders.
As far as the gun lobby is concerned. I am the gun lobby. The gun lobby is not evil corporations. It is millions of people who pay GOA and NRA dues; who fund raise. The amount of monies provided by gun manufacturers to the total amount is small (less than a 1/4 of the monies received).
The murder rate is "increasing" at the highest rate in 47 years. This is due to violence in places like Chicago.
So. I gather:
1. You're in favor of the President enforcing existing immigration laws. And
2. you're not in favor of Presidents doing extra-legal things like not following existing immigration laws.
US citizens decide who comes in.
We have laws regarding the hiring of illegal immigrants. I presume that you want the President to do his job and enforce the fu**ing law. As opposed to not doing his job by ignoring said laws.
You ignore the fact that there are more guns now than 20 years ago and yet shootings are down.
You also ignore the fact that there are many areas with lots of guns without violence.
Interesting, isn't it, that the most violent areas are the ones in which guns are already banned.
Just keep ignoring facts and expect to be paid attention to. See how far it gets you.
Who's threatening to do this? Not by Trump wanting to hold immigration to its LEGAL F**KING limits.
What dismantling? How about Obama who directed federal agencies to disobey the law (Immigration). The executive branch does not make laws. It's supposed to enforce them.
The citizens of the US decide immigration laws through their representatives. What makes that concept so hard for you to understand.
I want immigration. I am the children of immigrants, married to an immigrant. But it is the citizens of the US who decide immigration laws.. Not others.
thank you for the enlightening reply. You must be proud of yourself.
I'm assume you left off the /sarc at the end of your comment.
For those less knowledgeable Mao and Stalin killed over 100 million of their own citizens in their attempt to create the ideal world. The new man, homo sovieticus and all those wonderful 5 year plans leaving millions starved and brutalized.
Now let's compare this with Comcast. Don't like Comcast? Don't fu**ing use it.
Unlike benevolent governments which always do the right thing.
Let's take a look at the "MOST EVIL" corporations: Microsoft and Exxon. And compare their evilness with Mao's China and Stalin's Russia.
Hmmm. Which was MOSTEST EVIL?
Lemme see?
GTFOH with your stupid, braindead sh!t
No. Dipsh!t. Infections are getting harder to cure for a lot of reasons. Among them were people who did not continue taking their medication hence "bio-engineering" drug-resistance bugs. For those not into fancy phrases - it's evolution at work.
Yeah. No doubt. People can say what they want. But, as a moderately interested outsider, he *seems* to be putting his money where his mouth is regarding mosquito netting and malaria medication.
... but. It's a start. It's something.
That is not a cure but prevention is better than a cure. Of course the argument can be made that there was no money to be made in Africa anyway
As per our conversation - it's a good thing.
There will always be a need for pharma companies. There will always be diseases (especially as lifespans increase).
Good argument. But wall street isn't the only player. And some (say Bill Gates) have made their money and have no problem funding cures.
No. Not all liberals. Of course not.
I'm a live-and-let-live libertarian and have been met with real hostility and been called a fascist for simple pro free-market arguments.
I have been yelled at for not considering Trump to be an Nazi.
I didn't vote for trump. I did not support him. I disagree with him on many, many things, But, for instance, wanting to control borders and limit immigration is not equal to being a fascist.
There is a real culture of intolerance on the left. Look at the riots over Milo. Don't like Milo? Don't go. Don't like Angela Davis. Don't go. But rioting over a talk.
GTFOH (not referring to you)
I was just commenting on the premise that greed == always bad == corporations.
Greed can also exist in individual scientists and bureaucrats and can be against the best interest of the corporation (or the funders of the project).
Cancer cures are a good thing.
Cancer cures requires work and investment capital.
Scientists need to be paid (along with everyone else including HR and people mopping the floors)
Investment capital needs to be repaid with dividends.
All the above are good good things.
Yeah right.
an individualist who is for the free-market == right wing.
right wing == fascists
therefore anyone not for the progressive economic prescription of the day is a fascist
since fascists are evil and not worthy of being listened to and deserve physical violence
therefore anyone who is not a progressive deserves to be ignored and physically assaulted.
Greed?
Whose greed?
Foolish you. You assume greed == corporations.
Greed for fame?
Greed for advancement?
Greed for pushing a personal agenda?
Publish or Perish.