The electoral college with the winner takes it all concept also means you are forever stuck with two main parties. I do not envy your countries system at all.
But its relatively expensive to drill there still, more likely it'll be cheaper by then as solar gains more and more energy marketshare lessening the need of oil
The main problem with nuclear is simply that it is fairly expensive if you calculate in the all the costs outside of operating costs. You see almost no commercially funded nuclear power plants and that is for a reason. With the rapidly increasing efficiency of solar panels and subsequently lowering price per unit of energy, even though sources like solar are not optimal to provide baseline power. the costs are coming down so rapidly that it becomes feasable to just transform solar into stored forms of energy or simply plant so many of them that a significant portion of your base load is guaranteed
There are limits to being reasonable. Consider a pilot that is a flat-earth-believer, and refuses to fly certain routes because he believes the 'edge' is there. Similar to these nurses, it is perfectly reasonable to question the professionality of a person if such a person ignores basic scientific facts in their duties.
While the point you're making is correct, AGW is not 'the most single most tested scientific theory in the history of science'. This honour remains and probably will remain for the forseeable future in the domain of physics with either quantum physics and/or the Standard Model (probably the latter) of which billions of tests are done every single day.
Really not sure how you got upvoted for brownnosing Tim Crook.
Your analogy is completely wrong as well. This would be more like a tenant who has made a special 'deal' with his landlord to pay a double figure rent while everyone around him in the same building is paying thee digit rents.
Then the Housing committee drops by and declares the arrangement illegal.
Nothing wrong with that, its called obeying the legal system.
The last line about political crap and collectivist bureaucracy is just hilarious ^^
The voting preference of some tech CEO's does really say almost nothing about the likeliness that some candidate is not going to follow up on their campaign promises. You pretend it is a logical truth, but it is nothing more then poor reasoning, basically simplifying everyones political views being 100% dependant on ones living conditions, which is insanely shortsighted. Some of those extremely rich people have publicly called for increased taxing, and I personally know some wealthy people that support such a change as well. Political views can definitely be different from ones personal circumstanes
This stuff where parties (especially Republicans) are trying to interpretet the constitution and any other government regulations into their own fantasy land are completely detremental to the democratic foundation of your country.
They do this stuff in African dictatorships but you would not expect something like this from a nation that thinks of itself as the democratic example to the rest of the world.
Singularities only rise from General Relativity, which is precisely why scientists are looking for a better theory to describe the inner workings of a black hole. I don't think any physicist specialized in BH's expects singularities to be the actual way nature works, there is simply just nothing to describe it though.
The whole rebirthing idea peopler try to create based around black holes (whether the new universe is either inside the black or like you state after evaporation of the black hole) has no evidence and not even any clues leading to have to consider the option seriously. Basically it is another version of turtles all the way down. For one thing, your black hole would have to survive its internal creation of spacetime (which would logically lead to a nullification of the gravitic forces creating the black hole in the first place). Secondly, it does nothing to explain how the information can leak back into 'our universe'. It is also useful to note that our observable universe had to start from a singular starting point in order to explain its smoothness, but that does not necessarily mean the origin of our Universe as a whole had to start from a point (in which case it would simply much much bigger then we can observe).
Svalbard moved from the southern hemisphere all the way up to its present position, crossing the equator, so yeah, there was a tropical climate on Svalbard (hence the coal layers) but not because of the reason you mention
of course supporting your tribal group is acting in your own best interest
That is a nice statement but individuals, even atheistic ones, sometimes do things for the benefit of their tribal group when it involves a certain death, instant or not. Soldiers, policemen, heroes, etc. The person itself cannot benefit anymore of these 'nice' things but still they will do whatever they think is the right thing. Your statement subsequently cannot cover everyone and every action, and therefor your subsequent statement that people refuse to think seems a bit ironic.
For some reason it is totally fine for right wingers to fingerpoint day in day out even if it is complete garbage. Then when a 'leftie' says hey these guys are fingerpointing youre telling this guy should not fingerpoint?
What is this 'European-style "classes"' you're talking about anyway? First of all in general the European income equality is much better then the US, secondly Europe isn't a single country, each has its own perks and rationale
One of the main problems in the finance sector is that these people actually think they are smart, while driving economies into the abyss. So let's get rid of that false picture
The production cost of oil in SA is about 6-10 dollar, in Canada it is much higher due to the nature of oil extraction. The profit margin is much higher for the Saudis and its 100% staterun as well. It wouldnt suprise me if the net profit for the Saudis is higher then the Canadians
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The electoral college with the winner takes it all concept also means you are forever stuck with two main parties. I do not envy your countries system at all.
Stein has some good points but her science related topics are quite worrysome (this coming from a Euro greenie)
Until you abolish your winner-takes-it-all system though third parties are counterproductive for a voter. No idea how you can fix that mess though.
But its relatively expensive to drill there still, more likely it'll be cheaper by then as solar gains more and more energy marketshare lessening the need of oil
The main problem with nuclear is simply that it is fairly expensive if you calculate in the all the costs outside of operating costs. You see almost no commercially funded nuclear power plants and that is for a reason.
With the rapidly increasing efficiency of solar panels and subsequently lowering price per unit of energy, even though sources like solar are not optimal to provide baseline power. the costs are coming down so rapidly that it becomes feasable to just transform solar into stored forms of energy or simply plant so many of them that a significant portion of your base load is guaranteed
There are limits to being reasonable. Consider a pilot that is a flat-earth-believer, and refuses to fly certain routes because he believes the 'edge' is there. Similar to these nurses, it is perfectly reasonable to question the professionality of a person if such a person ignores basic scientific facts in their duties.
There is a difference between calling your opponent a nazi or calling your opponent a 12-year old
While the point you're making is correct, AGW is not 'the most single most tested scientific theory in the history of science'. This honour remains and probably will remain for the forseeable future in the domain of physics with either quantum physics and/or the Standard Model (probably the latter) of which billions of tests are done every single day.
If you hate science, why are you even on this website?
Arrogance would be assuming stuff to be true without scientific validation, you know, things like Gods and so on.
Why not is luckily not good enough for our modern society
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Really not sure how you got upvoted for brownnosing Tim Crook.
Your analogy is completely wrong as well. This would be more like a tenant who has made a special 'deal' with his landlord to pay a double figure rent while everyone around him in the same building is paying thee digit rents.
Then the Housing committee drops by and declares the arrangement illegal.
Nothing wrong with that, its called obeying the legal system.
The last line about political crap and collectivist bureaucracy is just hilarious ^^
The voting preference of some tech CEO's does really say almost nothing about the likeliness that some candidate is not going to follow up on their campaign promises. You pretend it is a logical truth, but it is nothing more then poor reasoning, basically simplifying everyones political views being 100% dependant on ones living conditions, which is insanely shortsighted.
Some of those extremely rich people have publicly called for increased taxing, and I personally know some wealthy people that support such a change as well. Political views can definitely be different from ones personal circumstanes
It is really amazing defending mass killings gets +4 Insightful on Slashdot these days, sigh
What the fuck happened with the reasonable audience here?
This stuff where parties (especially Republicans) are trying to interpretet the constitution and any other government regulations into their own fantasy land are completely detremental to the democratic foundation of your country.
They do this stuff in African dictatorships but you would not expect something like this from a nation that thinks of itself as the democratic example to the rest of the world.
Where is your common sense?
Amusing how right wingers can proclaim the second amendment as sacred as the bible yet show absolute contempt for another amendment :)
Singularities only rise from General Relativity, which is precisely why scientists are looking for a better theory to describe the inner workings of a black hole. I don't think any physicist specialized in BH's expects singularities to be the actual way nature works, there is simply just nothing to describe it though.
The whole rebirthing idea peopler try to create based around black holes (whether the new universe is either inside the black or like you state after evaporation of the black hole) has no evidence and not even any clues leading to have to consider the option seriously. Basically it is another version of turtles all the way down. For one thing, your black hole would have to survive its internal creation of spacetime (which would logically lead to a nullification of the gravitic forces creating the black hole in the first place). Secondly, it does nothing to explain how the information can leak back into 'our universe'. It is also useful to note that our observable universe had to start from a singular starting point in order to explain its smoothness, but that does not necessarily mean the origin of our Universe as a whole had to start from a point (in which case it would simply much much bigger then we can observe).
Svalbard moved from the southern hemisphere all the way up to its present position, crossing the equator, so yeah, there was a tropical climate on Svalbard (hence the coal layers) but not because of the reason you mention
of course supporting your tribal group is acting in your own best interest
That is a nice statement but individuals, even atheistic ones, sometimes do things for the benefit of their tribal group when it involves a certain death, instant or not. Soldiers, policemen, heroes, etc. The person itself cannot benefit anymore of these 'nice' things but still they will do whatever they think is the right thing. Your statement subsequently cannot cover everyone and every action, and therefor your subsequent statement that people refuse to think seems a bit ironic.
Seriously? Do you really believe Daesh are capable of doing that? They wished
This is a bad argument, the situation might have been already much much worse if you got involved from the start. Both ways are pure speculation
For some reason it is totally fine for right wingers to fingerpoint day in day out even if it is complete garbage. Then when a 'leftie' says hey these guys are fingerpointing youre telling this guy should not fingerpoint?
What is this 'European-style "classes"' you're talking about anyway? First of all in general the European income equality is much better then the US, secondly Europe isn't a single country, each has its own perks and rationale
This is actually common practice in my country, The Netherlands. And we don't exactly have a lack of rivers etc, or money for that matter.
So in the UK all people who skip bail are being watched 24/7 up to the tunes of 20 million pounds and counting? Please.. :-)
One of the main problems in the finance sector is that these people actually think they are smart, while driving economies into the abyss. So let's get rid of that false picture
The production cost of oil in SA is about 6-10 dollar, in Canada it is much higher due to the nature of oil extraction. The profit margin is much higher for the Saudis and its 100% staterun as well. It wouldnt suprise me if the net profit for the Saudis is higher then the Canadians