Sorry, but many of the statistics in your post are wildly incorrect.
No employment has not gone up steadily throughout his term.
CPS Table A-1 Historical Data: Employment bottomed in December 2009 at 138.025 million. Since then it has risen steadily (with a few hiccups here and there). As of November's data, employment is at 144.386 million. If you want to talk about job growth rather than employment, CES Table B-1 shows we've had steady positive jobs growth since the "double dip" scare in 2010. Every single month since September 2010 has had net jobs created.
note how the U6 number has continued to climb up under his presidency
U6 peaked at 17.1% in April 2010, and has been on a downward trend ever since. It is currently at 13.2%. Source
while we're doing this, note that the labor participation rate continues to fall through the floor like a brick
This is accurate, and "continues" is the proper word to use. Labor participation peaked in 2000 and has been trending downward since. It flattened out during the bubble years ('05-'07), steepened again during the recession, and is now back down to where it would have been had it never deviated from the '01-'04 trendline. Source (table A-1 again from above). While not a good thing, the aging of the baby boom generation cannot be attributed to economic policies of any president or any Congress. Economic policies don't stop people from getting old and retiring.
You could make the same argument about sunglasses with prescription lenses, but people still use those.
Contacts can only be made so strong, and there isn't as much precision in the prescriptions as with glasses. Laser surgery should only be done if/when your prescription has been stable for 2-5 years, which for some people never happens and for others can take decades (my father's eyes didn't stabilize until age 40). It's also expensive.
You know, I actually respect cold fjord. He posts thought-out arguments, is sharp enough to catch when someone is bullshitting, and doesn't often (at least that I've seen) start randomly insulting people. Even though I disagree with him, he's the kind of person that I like to see on/. and other forums. You need differing opinions if you ever want to have an intelligent conversation. GP is an example of the only differing opinions we'd get if people like fjord left ("omg fuck the hivemind! lawlawl snowden==traitor!"). I don't want that, and I'm guessing neither do most of the other people here.
Untested? It's Dogfish Head. It's on sale at your local supermarket. This isn't some hipster brewing in his basement - it's a respected, nationally-known brand. I've tried some of their ancient brews myself, and they're quite good.
Both Alexander and Feinstein have issues that they'd rather the media not look at right now. Alexander's chief of staff was just arrested on child porn charges, and Feinstein...I don't think I have to mention, here on/., why people hate Feinstein.
So they've come together with a "you know that thing that people really hate? Let's ban it!" bill meant to get their names in the headlines next to something they think people will like. It's just a stunt. Pay no heed to it.
Personally, the "cools it quickly to a drinkable temp" was the biggest attraction for me. I have to put a single ice cube in my mug when I use the coffee machine here at work, or else I have to wait twenty minutes so I don't scald myself.
This is the key point. You can't just pump more and more water vapor into the atmosphere. There's an upper limit; once you hit the limit, it condenses and falls out as rain. So you won't get runaway warming just from H2O.
But there is a secondary effect that should be noted: hotter air can hold more water vapor. So as the atmosphere warms from CO2, it can hold more water, which is a greenhouse gas, and it warms even more. It's not a feedback effect, but it is an amplification effect.
The fight over "begging the question" was lost decades ago. The modern usage makes more sense anyway: the logical fallacy would be better off renamed "assuming the premise", which both serves as a more descriptive name and is a better translation of the Latin petitio principii.
Save your time and effort for the "literally" folks. It's wasted here.
How can humans be prevented from having power over other humans if there aren't any humans with power over other humans to prevent the humans from having power over other humans?
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Sorry, but many of the statistics in your post are wildly incorrect.
No employment has not gone up steadily throughout his term.
CPS Table A-1 Historical Data: Employment bottomed in December 2009 at 138.025 million. Since then it has risen steadily (with a few hiccups here and there). As of November's data, employment is at 144.386 million. If you want to talk about job growth rather than employment, CES Table B-1 shows we've had steady positive jobs growth since the "double dip" scare in 2010. Every single month since September 2010 has had net jobs created.
note how the U6 number has continued to climb up under his presidency
U6 peaked at 17.1% in April 2010, and has been on a downward trend ever since. It is currently at 13.2%. Source
while we're doing this, note that the labor participation rate continues to fall through the floor like a brick
This is accurate, and "continues" is the proper word to use. Labor participation peaked in 2000 and has been trending downward since. It flattened out during the bubble years ('05-'07), steepened again during the recession, and is now back down to where it would have been had it never deviated from the '01-'04 trendline. Source (table A-1 again from above). While not a good thing, the aging of the baby boom generation cannot be attributed to economic policies of any president or any Congress. Economic policies don't stop people from getting old and retiring.
So don't make your eye the button/trigger, just the cursor/reticle.
Americans just get all hot and whimper and then bend over
Just phrase it as "Obama is coming to take your porn!" That'll get 'em riled up good.
$80 million isn't that enormous, as far as things go. That's like half of one F-22.
You could make the same argument about sunglasses with prescription lenses, but people still use those.
Contacts can only be made so strong, and there isn't as much precision in the prescriptions as with glasses. Laser surgery should only be done if/when your prescription has been stable for 2-5 years, which for some people never happens and for others can take decades (my father's eyes didn't stabilize until age 40). It's also expensive.
You know, I actually respect cold fjord. He posts thought-out arguments, is sharp enough to catch when someone is bullshitting, and doesn't often (at least that I've seen) start randomly insulting people. Even though I disagree with him, he's the kind of person that I like to see on /. and other forums. You need differing opinions if you ever want to have an intelligent conversation. GP is an example of the only differing opinions we'd get if people like fjord left ("omg fuck the hivemind! lawlawl snowden==traitor!"). I don't want that, and I'm guessing neither do most of the other people here.
I believe he was referencing this recent story about the digitized copies of public-domain works being copyrighted by the digitizer.
Untested? It's Dogfish Head. It's on sale at your local supermarket. This isn't some hipster brewing in his basement - it's a respected, nationally-known brand. I've tried some of their ancient brews myself, and they're quite good.
So that's what happened to all the unsold N-Gages.
Would it star The Rock?
Not only that, they're read today more for the beautiful poetry than for any religious reason. I skimmed TFA and didn't see any sign of verse.
Pah! Fox stealing jokes again! A clear ripoff of NBC's Vladimir Acula, M.D., back in 2006.
Obviously you're doing it wrong, or they wouldn't be complaining.
But what if a Graboid eats it?
Both Alexander and Feinstein have issues that they'd rather the media not look at right now. Alexander's chief of staff was just arrested on child porn charges, and Feinstein...I don't think I have to mention, here on /., why people hate Feinstein.
So they've come together with a "you know that thing that people really hate? Let's ban it!" bill meant to get their names in the headlines next to something they think people will like. It's just a stunt. Pay no heed to it.
Damn. I was hoping it was cheese.
Personally, the "cools it quickly to a drinkable temp" was the biggest attraction for me. I have to put a single ice cube in my mug when I use the coffee machine here at work, or else I have to wait twenty minutes so I don't scald myself.
Water is already regulated by the atmosphere itself. It has a nifty little trick called "rain" that prevents vapor levels from getting too high.
and condenses at most earth temperatures.
This is the key point. You can't just pump more and more water vapor into the atmosphere. There's an upper limit; once you hit the limit, it condenses and falls out as rain. So you won't get runaway warming just from H2O.
But there is a secondary effect that should be noted: hotter air can hold more water vapor. So as the atmosphere warms from CO2, it can hold more water, which is a greenhouse gas, and it warms even more. It's not a feedback effect, but it is an amplification effect.
A part per trillion is not equal to 1000 parts per billion. A part per trillion is 1/1000 parts per billion. You're doing it backwards.
Given that sulfur hexafluoride has almost triple the potency of this, and has a concentration around 7 ppt, I think that record's already been set.
Sometimes you have to ally with the Soviet Union if you want to defeat Nazi Germany.
The fight over "begging the question" was lost decades ago. The modern usage makes more sense anyway: the logical fallacy would be better off renamed "assuming the premise", which both serves as a more descriptive name and is a better translation of the Latin petitio principii.
Save your time and effort for the "literally" folks. It's wasted here.
how many times have we heard/read about police chases which result in massive collateral damage and people getting killed?
Not all that many?
How can humans be prevented from having power over other humans if there aren't any humans with power over other humans to prevent the humans from having power over other humans?
Replace the humans with turtles.