"During the period of the Holocaust of World War II, Poland lost:
45% of her doctors, 57% of her attorneys 40% of her professors, 30% of her technicians, more than 18% of her clergy most of her journalists. "
[snip] "Non-Jews of Polish descent suffered over 100,000 deaths at Auschwitz. The Germans forcibly deported approximately 2,000,000 Polish Gentiles into slave labor for the Third Reich. The Russians deported almost 1,700,000 Polish non-Jews to Siberia. Men, women and children were forced from their homes with no warning. Transferred in cattle cars in freezing weather, many died on the way. Polish children who possessed Aryan-looking characteristics were wrenched from their mother's arms and placed in German homes to be raised as Germans. "
The summary ignores that corporations are just as bad, but that corporations don't admit their problems. This is one area we find the Fed fessing up.
This just isn't true. Corporations usually do admit their problems. They often have a legal obligation to inform shareholders about why their company lost $$$ dollars.
And besides, the Fed can afford to fess up. What's it going to cost them? If anything they'll get MORE money claiming they didn't have enough in the first place to make the project a success. Failure is almost always used to justify more spending. More money is the award for failure.
And it's not like the government is going to go out of business but companies that chronically screw-up will and people will lose their jobs.
Seems to me companies have a much greater incentive to make sure projects succeed.
You seem to have missed the concept of "limiting nutrients". If the plant runs out of phosphorus or nitrogen or potash or light (think "global dimming"), there is not much it can do with a smaller energy burden to grab CO2.
I really don't know how to respond to messages such as yours. You seem to suggest, incorrectly, that most plants that might benefit from increased CO2 fertilization can't because they are currently nurtient limited. How can you know this? I don't think it's true.
The only purpose in your comment seems to be to diminish to nothing the value of CO2 fertilization. Well you can't. It's real and and presently benefits agricultural production -- an endeavor presently criticized for delivering too much in the way of nutrients to fields.
You seem to have missed the concept of "balance". You throw out your criticisms in the vain hope that they'll wipe away any positive consequences that might come from increased CO2 in the atmosphere.
There's nothing wrong with it that can't be cured by allowing destitute senior citizens to starve to death on the streets.
It would, after all, be their own fault, for failing to save properly for old age.
The lack of fear at such an outcome is exactly why so many people don't save today the way they used to in the past.
Look at the gradual decline in the savings rate. It even went negative recently. Why? Because people don't worry about their future. They believe government will bail them out.
Socialists are for workers rights, the National Socialists were, to say the least, not.
Though Jews in Germany made up just 2% of the population, they owned about 60% of the companies and so were viewed as representing the capitalist class and in control of the economy.
Here is an interesting chart that appeared in a 1930's German paper. The caption:
A picture of German economic life in 1930: Each column shows a branch of the German economy, The figure to the left shows the total number of companies. The number of Jewish firms is shown by the black bar, the non-Jewish by the white bar. When one remembers that according to the 1925 census there were "only" about 555,000 religious Jews in Germany -- which means by a generous estimate no more than a million Jews by blood in 1930, there are 60 to 100 Germans for each Jew. This makes clear what it means when, for example, up to 60% of the German economy is led by Jews. (p. 36)
Nazis viewed themselves as representing average German workers versus Jewish capitalists.
Or consider this story from the book Der Giftpilz, an anti-Semitic children's book published by Julius Streicher:
Liselotte looks out at the cottage window towards evening and talks to her mother about the hard way in which father has to work. She says:
"Do you know, mother, what I sometimes wish? I should like to be rich. Very rich! And with my money I would make people happy. I should love to help the poor!"
They go on talking. Liselotte asks:
"Tell me, mother, how does it happen that the Jews are so rich? Our teacher has told us at school that here are thousands of Jews in the world who are millionaires. And yet the Jews do not work. It is the non-Jews who must work. The Jew only trades. But one cannot become a millionaire by trading with paper, bones, old clothing and furniture!"
Mother explains how it is done.
"The Jew is quite indifferent when the cheated non-Jew goes hungry. Jews have no pity. They strive for one thing: -- money. They do not care two hoots how they get it."
Liselotte asks how they can behave in this mean way.
Mother answers:
"Child, one thing you must realise. The Jew is not a person like us. The Jew is a Devil. And a Devil has no sense of honour. A Devil deals only in meanness and crime. You have read your Bible, Liselotte. There it says the Jewish God once said to the Jews: 'You must eat up the people of the earth!' Do you know what that means? It means the Jew should destroy all other peoples. They should bleed and exploit them till they die. That is what it means."
Liselotte tries to understand these things.
Mother continues:
"Yes, my child, that's the Jew! The God of the Jews is gold. There is no crime he would not commit to get it. He has no rest till he can sit on the top of a gold-sack. He has no rest till he has become King Money. And with this money he would make us all into slaves and destroy us. With this money he seeks to dominate the whole world. All that is contained in the following saying:
'The Jew has only one idea in this world; It is: Money, Money, Money! By every kind of trick and device To make himself immeasurably rich.
What cares he for scorn and contempt! Money was and is his God! Through money he hopes to lord it over us, And achieve the mastery of the world.' "
You can't deny it. Nazism is a form of class warfare, with Jews representing the monied class. Hostile opposition to the monied class is a hallmark of many philosophies claiming to represent the workers and most of those classify themselves as socialist.
In a communist/socialist system the state owns everything and just claims to do it in the name of the people.
Sigh. Ownership is control. Just how are "the people" to exercise their collective control except through the state?
Fascism has to do with totalitarianism and suppression of rights, not with property. The canonical fascist country (Nazi Germany) was capitalist.
The canonical fascist country is Italy. That's where fascism was invented. Nazism is a form of national socialism. Fascism and Nazism aren't the same thing.
Since when does communist equate with totalitarian dictator? Granted, it more often then not turns out this way, sadly, the communist==dictator relationship is Western Cold War propaganda.
Communist states in practice create dictatorships. That's an historical fact that goes beyond being simple propaganda.
Extreme changes in the Arctic Oscillation in the early 1990s -- and not warmer temperatures of recent years -- are largely responsible for declines in how much sea ice covers the Arctic Ocean, with near record lows having been observed during the last three years, University of Washington researchers say.
It may have happened more than a decade ago, but the sea ice appears to still "remember" those Arctic Oscillation conditions, according to Ignatius Rigor, a mathematician with the UW's Applied Physics Laboratory and a presenter at the American Geophysical Union's annual fall meeting this week in San Francisco.
The Arctic Oscillation is a seesaw pattern in which atmospheric pressure at the polar and middle latitudes fluctuates between positive and negative phases. The wind patterns associated with the Arctic Oscillation affect the surface winds and temperature over North America and Eurasia, as well as the Arctic.
The Arctic Oscillation was in an extreme "high,"...
Of course it does. Electricity is electromagnetic radiation, i.e. light.
Electromagnetic radiation consists of alternating electric and magnetic fields. That is not what "electricity" is. Electricity concerns itself with the behaviors of positive and negative charges.
... current is not the transfer of electrons, it's the transfer of electric charge.
Current is a quantity of charge moving through an area per second, though I wouldn't call it a transfer of charge.
Consider a circuit powered by a solar collector. A current flows through the circuit, but how is charge transfered? No. The charge carriers are given energy by the solar cell and this energy is used to perform work. Eventually these carriers find their way back to the cell and are given more energy.
You say the list is "incomplete". Maybe. But it's rare that lists of registered voters are incomplete. Why? Because voters are often left on such lists after they move or die. Consider the 46,000 voters registered in BOTH New York and Florida. (It's interesting that only 12% of these duel-registered voters were Republican whiel 68% were Democrat.) Lists of such voters are going to show MORE registered voters than votes, not less.
"It's not an argument for anything at all", my a55.
I really hope there is a national investigation of vote fraud. Considering felons are overwhelmingly more likely to be Democrat than Republican, I have no doubt which group is most likely to commit fraud.
And it happens to be an overwhelming Democrat County.
Interesting.
Thursday, December 30, 2004 Last updated 5:30 p.m. PT
GOP urges King County to explain 3,500-vote discrepancy
By ELIZABETH M. GILLESPIE ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
SEATTLE -- The day after King County released a list of nearly 900,000 voters who cast ballots Nov. 2, Republicans prodded election officials to explain why the list appeared to have about 3,500 fewer names than the number of votes that were actually tallied.
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Some more facts about the Polish Holocaust":
"During the period of the Holocaust of World War II, Poland lost:
45% of her doctors,
57% of her attorneys
40% of her professors,
30% of her technicians,
more than 18% of her clergy
most of her journalists. "
[snip]
"Non-Jews of Polish descent suffered over 100,000 deaths at Auschwitz. The Germans forcibly deported approximately 2,000,000 Polish Gentiles into slave labor for the Third Reich. The Russians deported almost 1,700,000 Polish non-Jews to Siberia. Men, women and children were forced from their homes with no warning. Transferred in cattle cars in freezing weather, many died on the way. Polish children who possessed Aryan-looking characteristics were wrenched from their mother's arms and placed in German homes to be raised as Germans. "
Yeah, they're funny, but try not to take it too far.
The Polish have really had a hard time. There even was a "Polish holocaust". Seriously.
Never heard of it?
That's how successful it was.
The summary ignores that corporations are just as bad, but that corporations don't admit their problems. This is one area we find the Fed fessing up.
This just isn't true. Corporations usually do admit their problems. They often have a legal obligation to inform shareholders about why their company lost $$$ dollars.
And besides, the Fed can afford to fess up. What's it going to cost them? If anything they'll get MORE money claiming they didn't have enough in the first place to make the project a success. Failure is almost always used to justify more spending. More money is the award for failure.
And it's not like the government is going to go out of business but companies that chronically screw-up will and people will lose their jobs.
Seems to me companies have a much greater incentive to make sure projects succeed.
Where? Maybe misguided, but not fake.
How about you, Michael? Just what sort of scientist are you?
Maybe you're just using your position as a slashdot editor to manipulate us.
Don't waste your time. Most of us can think for ourselves. We don't need your help deciding who is a fake and who is real.
There is a very strong anti-Chinese movement within the US, in particular, that tends to dramatically misportray the way things are there.
/. are examples.
There's also a very strong anti-USA movement within the US that tends to dramatically misportray the way things are there.
Many of the posts on
You seem to have missed the concept of "limiting nutrients". If the plant runs out of phosphorus or nitrogen or potash or light (think "global dimming"), there is not much it can do with a smaller energy burden to grab CO2.
I really don't know how to respond to messages such as yours. You seem to suggest, incorrectly, that most plants that might benefit from increased CO2 fertilization can't because they are currently nurtient limited. How can you know this? I don't think it's true.
The only purpose in your comment seems to be to diminish to nothing the value of CO2 fertilization. Well you can't. It's real and and presently benefits agricultural production -- an endeavor presently criticized for delivering too much in the way of nutrients to fields.
You seem to have missed the concept of "balance". You throw out your criticisms in the vain hope that they'll wipe away any positive consequences that might come from increased CO2 in the atmosphere.
And don't forget the CO2 fertilization effect. Plants seem to do much better with more CO2 in the atmosphere.
The the other cast were good, especially Gates McFadden as Crusher, but that show would not have made it without the strength of Stewart.
Unless he shows up, I'm not watching.
Here is a scary image of children giving a "nazi" salute to flag of the USA. It seems to support some of what you're saying.
Click if you dare.
There's nothing wrong with it that can't be cured by allowing destitute senior citizens to starve to death on the streets.
It would, after all, be their own fault, for failing to save properly for old age.
The lack of fear at such an outcome is exactly why so many people don't save today the way they used to in the past.
Look at the gradual decline in the savings rate. It even went negative recently. Why? Because people don't worry about their future. They believe government will bail them out.
Socialists are for workers rights, the National Socialists were, to say the least, not.
:
Though Jews in Germany made up just 2% of the population, they owned about 60% of the companies and so were viewed as representing the capitalist class and in control of the economy.
Here is an interesting chart that appeared in a 1930's German paper. The caption
A picture of German economic life in 1930: Each column shows a branch of the German economy, The figure to the left shows the total number of companies. The number of Jewish firms is shown by the black bar, the non-Jewish by the white bar. When one remembers that according to the 1925 census there were "only" about 555,000 religious Jews in Germany -- which means by a generous estimate no more than a million Jews by blood in 1930, there are 60 to 100 Germans for each Jew. This makes clear what it means when, for example, up to 60% of the German economy is led by Jews. (p. 36)
Nazis viewed themselves as representing average German workers versus Jewish capitalists.
Or consider this story from the book Der Giftpilz, an anti-Semitic children's book published by Julius Streicher:
Money is the God of the Jews
Liselotte looks out at the cottage window towards evening and talks to her mother about the hard way in which father has to work. She says:
"Do you know, mother, what I sometimes wish? I should like to be rich. Very rich! And with my money I would make people happy. I should love to help the poor!"
They go on talking. Liselotte asks:
"Tell me, mother, how does it happen that the Jews are so rich? Our teacher has told us at school that here are thousands of Jews in the world who are millionaires. And yet the Jews do not work. It is the non-Jews who must work. The Jew only trades. But one cannot become a millionaire by trading with paper, bones, old clothing and furniture!"
Mother explains how it is done.
"The Jew is quite indifferent when the cheated non-Jew goes hungry. Jews have no pity. They strive for one thing: -- money. They do not care two hoots how they get it."
Liselotte asks how they can behave in this mean way.
Mother answers:
"Child, one thing you must realise. The Jew is not a person like us. The Jew is a Devil. And a Devil has no sense of honour. A Devil deals only in meanness and crime. You have read your Bible, Liselotte. There it says the Jewish God once said to the Jews: 'You must eat up the people of the earth!' Do you know what that means? It means the Jew should destroy all other peoples. They should bleed and exploit them till they die. That is what it means."
Liselotte tries to understand these things.
Mother continues:
"Yes, my child, that's the Jew! The God of the Jews is gold. There is no crime he would not commit to get it. He has no rest till he can sit on the top of a gold-sack. He has no rest till he has become King Money. And with this money he would make us all into slaves and destroy us. With this money he seeks to dominate the whole world. All that is contained in the following saying:
'The Jew has only one idea in this world;
It is: Money, Money, Money!
By every kind of trick and device
To make himself immeasurably rich.
What cares he for scorn and contempt!
Money was and is his God!
Through money he hopes to lord it over us,
And achieve the mastery of the world.' "
You can't deny it. Nazism is a form of class warfare, with Jews representing the monied class. Hostile opposition to the monied class is a hallmark of many philosophies claiming to represent the workers and most of those classify themselves as socialist.
In a communist/socialist system the state owns everything and just claims to do it in the name of the people.
Sigh. Ownership is control. Just how are "the people" to exercise their collective control except through the state?
Fascism has to do with totalitarianism and suppression of rights, not with property. The canonical fascist country (Nazi Germany) was capitalist.
The canonical fascist country is Italy. That's where fascism was invented. Nazism is a form of national socialism. Fascism and Nazism aren't the same thing.
Since when does communist equate with totalitarian dictator? Granted, it more often then not turns out this way, sadly, the communist==dictator relationship is Western Cold War propaganda.
Communist states in practice create dictatorships. That's an historical fact that goes beyond being simple propaganda.
That's a law in some states.
I wonder if there is a federal equivalent.
You don't just give someone half a billion and get nothing unless someone missrepresented what they were capable of.
From ScienceDaily.com
...
Extreme changes in the Arctic Oscillation in the early 1990s -- and not warmer temperatures of recent years -- are largely responsible for declines in how much sea ice covers the Arctic Ocean, with near record lows having been observed during the last three years, University of Washington researchers say.
It may have happened more than a decade ago, but the sea ice appears to still "remember" those Arctic Oscillation conditions, according to Ignatius Rigor, a mathematician with the UW's Applied Physics Laboratory and a presenter at the American Geophysical Union's annual fall meeting this week in San Francisco.
The Arctic Oscillation is a seesaw pattern in which atmospheric pressure at the polar and middle latitudes fluctuates between positive and negative phases. The wind patterns associated with the Arctic Oscillation affect the surface winds and temperature over North America and Eurasia, as well as the Arctic.
The Arctic Oscillation was in an extreme "high,"
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Locking up ideas as property through stifles their free flow much like suppressing them. This is how copyright is censorship.
Except copyright law has nothing to do with protecting ideas.
What is protected is a very specific creative object and much less general a thing than an idea.
Actually, the way I would describe it is not censorship, but rather the erosion of our Constitutionally-protected due process rights.
Discovering the names of people possibly involved in a crime is part of due process.
There goes 'presumption of innocence.'
Everyone is presumed innocent until proven guilty, but that doesn't stop (and shouldn't stop) a legitimate investigation.
If you have evidence someone is stealing your property, the LEAST you can do is find out their name.
"Electromagnetic radiation consists of alternating electric and
"magnetic fields.
and electricity doesn't?
No, it doesn't. You can produce electromagnetic radiation by accelerating a charge, but that's not the same thing.
So, you can use electricity to produce electromagnetic radiation, but electricity isn't itself electromagnetic radiation.
Electromagnetic radiation consists of alternating electric and magnetic fields. That is not what "electricity" is. Electricity concerns itself with the behaviors of positive and negative charges.
Current is a quantity of charge moving through an area per second, though I wouldn't call it a transfer of charge.
Consider a circuit powered by a solar collector. A current flows through the circuit, but how is charge transfered? No. The charge carriers are given energy by the solar cell and this energy is used to perform work. Eventually these carriers find their way back to the cell and are given more energy.
It is not a list of registered voters, it is a list of people who actually voted.
You don't even know what this list is that you're talking about!
Damn it. I hate looking like an idiot.
It certainly is evidence of fraud.
You say the list is "incomplete". Maybe. But it's rare that lists of registered voters are incomplete. Why? Because voters are often left on such lists after they move or die. Consider the 46,000 voters registered in BOTH New York and Florida. (It's interesting that only 12% of these duel-registered voters were Republican whiel 68% were Democrat.) Lists of such voters are going to show MORE registered voters than votes, not less.
"It's not an argument for anything at all", my a55.
I really hope there is a national investigation of vote fraud. Considering felons are overwhelmingly more likely to be Democrat than Republican, I have no doubt which group is most likely to commit fraud.
Republicans and Democrats have both monitored the elections, sniffing out any sign of fraud. None has materialized thus far.
Republicans sniffed and found 3,500 more votes than voters in an overwhelmingly Democrat county.
That's a compelling argument that there was fraud.
3,500 more votes than voters in King County.
And it happens to be an overwhelming Democrat County.
Interesting.
Thursday, December 30, 2004 Last updated 5:30 p.m. PT
GOP urges King County to explain 3,500-vote discrepancy
By ELIZABETH M. GILLESPIE
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
SEATTLE -- The day after King County released a list of nearly 900,000 voters who cast ballots Nov. 2, Republicans prodded election officials to explain why the list appeared to have about 3,500 fewer names than the number of votes that were actually tallied.
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He just likes people to think he's a Texan.