That was a provision to weaken the institution of slavery, which was established in the southern colonies prior to the formation of the United States, not a comment on the humanity of the slaves.
Yes, I know all that.
But it was low down politics, not a "glorious thing to read, based on the philosophies of the Enlightment".
If Obama were to start arming the U.S. for a war of conquest against our neighbors similar to Nazi Germany or Iran (for a more modern example),
Arming itself for a war of conquest against its neighbours? WTF? Who is Iran going to attack? Pakistan? Afghanistan? Turkmenistan? Azerbaijan? Armenia? Turkey? Iraq?
Plus it is a glorious thing to read, based on the philosophies of the Enlightment and full of brilliant compromises.
Ah, yes, the philosopies of the Enlightenment:
Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.
Not much more than 50 years ago Germany was one of the most successful police states the world has seen [...] The US, however, has gone completely the opposite way
One of the police states in Germany ended in 1945, 68 years ago. The other one ended 1989-1990, 23 years ago.
50 years ago (1963) large parts of America were still racialy segregated - MLK made his "I have a Dream" speach in 1963. If you don't think things have got better since then you may be white.
Sure, [nukes] cleaner than coal or even natural gas, but that nuclear fuel don't [...] enrich itself,
Of course it does.
When the French decided to go nuclear in the 70's the first plant they built was to power the enrichment process.
Other problem with nuclear is the enourmous power generating capacity of a reactor: it requires equally enormous backup for the inevidable times the reactor is offline!
That backup is... another reactor
And since reactors are slow to come online, that backup needs to be something else, like natural gas.
No. When you lots of reactors the extra load caused by one of them going offline is not a problem.
Or wind. Or solar.
No, you can't use wind or solar to back up nuclear plants - what happens if a plant goes offline on a windless day? Or at night?
In winter you likely don't import energy from german coal. Much more likely you import wind energy. Germany only produces roughly 30% of its energy with coal right now...
Net electricity production in 2012 Brown Coal 143TWh 30% Hard Coal 106TWh 22% Uranium 94TWh 19% Gas 49TWh 10% Wind 45.9TWh 10% Solar 27.9TWh 6% Run of River 17TWh 4% Total 482.8TWh 100%
So that's 52% coal, not 30% and wind is only 10%
Also, from page 50 Sweden exported more electricty to Germany than vice-versa.
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So far I thought it's just an organization of some 20 states from one continent,
28 at the last count.
(A real pain for school kiddies - each time they learn how many countries there are in the EU it changes).
Syria and Lebanon. In the case of Syria they are keeping in place a government whom
[Some of]
the people despise. A classic invasion.
No, a classic invasion consists of massed armies of tanks crossing the border while the sky is blackend with incoming air attacks
In the case of Lebanon they've created an army operating on Lebanese soil not answerable to the government or the society.
But they haven't, you know, invaded.
Iran has troops assisting the Syrian government.
This is a "war of conquest" how?
It has long had agents destabilizing Iran...
Sorry?
... Lebanon, ...
Poor old Lebanon, suffering a massive air and land attack from Iran. Whoops, that was Israel.
... and various Gulf countries
This "destabilisation" consists of invasion by massed tank armies? I thought we were talking about "a war of conquest".
They are cooperating with Venezuela, training their army.
What on earth is the relevance of this?
That was a provision to weaken the institution of slavery, which was established in the southern colonies prior to the formation of the United States, not a comment on the humanity of the slaves.
Yes, I know all that.
But it was low down politics, not a "glorious thing to read, based on the philosophies of the Enlightment".
ITYM 51,7%
You're confusing the referendum on the constitution with the election.
If Obama were to start arming the U.S. for a war of conquest against our neighbors similar to Nazi Germany or Iran (for a more modern example),
Arming itself for a war of conquest against its neighbours? WTF? Who is Iran going to attack? Pakistan? Afghanistan? Turkmenistan? Azerbaijan? Armenia? Turkey? Iraq?
Plus it is a glorious thing to read, based on the philosophies of the Enlightment and full of brilliant compromises.
Ah, yes, the philosopies of the Enlightenment:
Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.
In some parts of S. California I could walk outside my front door and not be able to read the commercial signs.
So, you're illiterate and proud of it. Cool.
You're posting AC. It's impossible to have a conversation with you.
Not much more than 50 years ago Germany was one of the most successful police states the world has seen [...] The US, however, has gone completely the opposite way
One of the police states in Germany ended in 1945, 68 years ago. The other one ended 1989-1990, 23 years ago.
50 years ago (1963) large parts of America were still racialy segregated - MLK made his "I have a Dream" speach in 1963. If you don't think things have got better since then you may be white.
You might want to brush up on your history a bit.
For electric cars, the pollution comes from producing the electricity. In most countries, this is 90% or more from burning fossil fuels.
Wrong.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_generation#List_of_countries_with_source_of_electricity_2008
Coal, oil and gas were 67%
Nukes 13%
Renewables 18% (mostly hydro)
Other 1.3% (biomass, waste &c)
Sure, [nukes] cleaner than coal or even natural gas, but that nuclear fuel don't [...] enrich itself,
Of course it does.
When the French decided to go nuclear in the 70's the first plant they built was to power the enrichment process.
Other problem with nuclear is the enourmous power generating capacity of a reactor: it requires equally enormous backup for the inevidable times the reactor is offline!
That backup is ... another reactor
And since reactors are slow to come online, that backup needs to be something else, like natural gas.
No. When you lots of reactors the extra load caused by one of them going offline is not a problem.
Or wind. Or solar.
No, you can't use wind or solar to back up nuclear plants - what happens if a plant goes offline on a windless day? Or at night?
In winter you likely don't import energy from german coal. Much more likely you import wind energy. Germany only produces roughly 30% of its energy with coal right now ...
Got an up to date source on that?
Best I can find is: http://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/news/news-2012/electricity-production-from-solar-and-wind-in-germany-in-2012
Which gives:
Net electricity production in 2012
Brown Coal 143TWh 30%
Hard Coal 106TWh 22%
Uranium 94TWh 19%
Gas 49TWh 10%
Wind 45.9TWh 10%
Solar 27.9TWh 6%
Run of River 17TWh 4%
Total 482.8TWh 100%
So that's 52% coal, not 30% and wind is only 10%
Also, from page 50 Sweden exported more electricty to Germany than vice-versa.
It's not MTA functionality. It is LDA functionality.
Sendmail writes a flat file... this results in some limitations
No it doesn't
define(`confLOCAL_MAILER', `cyrusv2')
Problem solved.
Given that the US fertility rate is below replacement (1.89 where replacement is around 2.1) then all US population growth is due to immigration.
(SmittyVonSmitSmit is still a paranoid loon though).
Yes, those of us in the third world (Canada) may actually be able to view Youtube soon.
Too far norh.
This is for the other 3 billion.
Easy to fix - just buy one of these http://www.mortarinvestments.eu/products/armoured-vehicles-4/gm-587-kub-22#currency=USD
Only $8350 (missiles extra).
Define "murder".
Getting them to admit there is a problem is the first part of the battle.
Afterwards we can argue about how to fix it.
And its such a fucking great put down of the denier idiots.
If you follow the link you'll find that Scott Denning uses the platform Heartland gives him to demolish their AGW denier position.
Nice to see the slashbots sucking up the RCP line.
The Science Media Centre's stated role is to get science into the public domain through the media when controversial topics hit the headlines.
Tee hee.
I find it strange that about half the people I see bitching about Gnome 3 have never seen it.
Gnome3 is not Unity.
What on earth are you talking about?
There is no "new unified gnome menu". The apps menu is where it has always been.
What "logic"? This is the observed behaviour of the system.
You can't trump observation with argument
ERT is a typical example of unique lack of transparency
This fucker - he uses words that he doesn't know the meaning of.
Typicaly unique, uniquely typical. How does that work?