. I don't believe the appropriate response here would be to destroy a man's livelihood
Well, his livelihood is not guaranteed, as are none of ours, and he is certainly entitled to nothing except the opportunity to show up for work and do it right. Just like the rest of us.
This is usually the cause of a pileup. Most people follow too closely. And then get mad at you when you have to stop.
Even funnier is when they tailgate me for 8 miles on the freeway, angrily whip past me as if how dare you get in my way, and then Indiana's finest pull them over because it's called the fucking "no-fly-zone" and I'm following the speed limit because I do not have $150 to give away today.
I always am reminded of this when people start bitching about speed limits. You guys can have your no-speed-limits freeways when you fucking learn not to tailgate.
e. How about we take wealth and power away from the government
Because then you're just giving that power to other people who will rape you and pillage from you and destroy everything you have for a quick buck.
The government is us. One way to make sure it actually represents us is to not be lazy about using your right to vote, and informing yourself as to what is going on and why.
Usually when I encounter your kind of thinking, I find people who are lazy in the brain, and therefore wildly misinformed.
Imagine a federal government that was given 8% of annual GDP (roughly $1.2 trillion) to perform its duties and constrained by a balanced budget law
Imagine a nation in complete collapse and disarray because their government can't do anything and cronies and bullies run it all for their own personal benefit.
I notice people like you get the most upset when it looks like someone else is benefiting from government services. Someone with a particular tone of skin color, in point of fact, who you feel should be out in the fields working harder.
I notice this even more amusingly when for example last week the POTUS cut white house tours short and all the right-wing jeering drooling idiots all started screaming. Apparently, cutting spending is only important when it's not for you.
So, you can pardon me if I don't take your POV very seriously. I can tell you've never, ever, ever thought it through.
Politicians bribe government workers in exchange for votes with benefits that are paid for by money taken from other people who have no say in the matter.
And now we've gotten down to the nadir of right-wing stupidity here on Slashdot.
we're still talking about something that's happening at a speed unlikely to significantly change the environment you're living in within your lifetime.
Well, except that it is changing growing seasons' lengths and timing, which will definitely have an impact on food supply and prices.
Note I am not saying it isn't getting warmer. I'm just pointing out why some climate scientists appear to have politicized it.
Gee, why would such a subject be politicized? Could it be, perhaps, that someone stands to lose a lot from being forced to modify their dirty, destructive business practices?
Please don't offer them any links to history's most deadly storms.
Please don't, because then I can freely ignore Big Oil's bullshit on yet another website because the Big Oil Whore was too lazy to post any actual research.
Just to pile on, when you say "both sides do it," you are implicitly refusing to deal with the actual topic at hand, which is for example "budget" or "national security," or whatever.
So when you do that, you are basically throwing up your hands and saying "who can know such things?"
It's fucking lazy. Very, fucking lazy. I don't have much time to argue with people too lazy to at least delve into the elements of a topic. You obviously are.
I'm not sure how you can possible call that a cop out since it's 100% correct.
Except it's not.
Both sides is most definitely an intellectually lazy copout, and you're doing it right here.
And the Galt reference in your.sig just reinforces to me that you are too politically naive or ignorant to have any real opinion on these topics. You haven't put the effort into it.
I wonder if this is actually the cause of the current national debt problem in the US
No, that's just the Republicans trying to force cuts to social spending that they're too chickenshit to propose themselves. They call it "starve the beast" and it is an intentional strategy. The kind of strategy you'd ordinarily use to destroy a country.
Can't blame the lack of budget on deadlock. The D's had two years and never bothered.
Just so I can call you stupid, the budget is the responsibility of the House, which is controlled by the Republicans.
So, it is in their court.
I've noticed that you are extra-ignorant on these topics. And you're offtopic too. It's almost like you have an axe to grind and could give a flying fuck about factual reality.
I think Silver stands out because unlike too many modern American politicians, he is interested in the facts, and not what bullshit he can use the data to support.
So it's not so much that he's done a fantastic job figuring all this out, it's just that he's fucking honest about the results unlike a certain perpetually-deluded political party I'm sick of naming.
It is terrifying that some people think that 5 minutes on google somehow will make them more informed than 10 years of medical training plus years of actual medical practice.
I've had a couple of GPs who were very clearly not capable of critical thinking. After an argument with one where I was quite sure I'd had fifth's disease (because I was exposed to it) and he was sure I'd had rheumatic fever, he actually got out his book because I kept asking him if he'd tested for fifths. He tried to show me how there was no need for him to actually figure out what happened, because "indications" told him all he needed to know. Now of course this would have meant the difference between me having a round of antibiotics every tooth cleaning for the rest of my life, or just getting over a childhood disease I'd never had as a child.
~10 years later, I obviously never had rheumatic fever, so he was wrong and I was right.
Oh, and I had another doctor prescribe me an antibiotic after telling me I had a virus. I never filled the prescription and I never returned to his office.
Point being, I don't care what letters you have after your name. If you can't make your case to me I'm not going to accept your opinion, and I don't give a fuck how much you spent on your degree. I've seen the proof that sometimes, my doctor is either stupid, lazy, or sloppy. And I deserve to know what it is they're writing in my record. Period. Otherwise, what did I pay for?
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Well, his livelihood is not guaranteed, as are none of ours, and he is certainly entitled to nothing except the opportunity to show up for work and do it right. Just like the rest of us.
You mean the CEO of a big company fucked up hugely and actually had to endure consequences?
Cats and dogs sleeping with each other, chaos, the world is upside down!
Kind of a shitty analogy, since we're not talking about a vault, but a public web server.
But nice try. It's just that your analogy completely blows goats.
This is usually the cause of a pileup. Most people follow too closely. And then get mad at you when you have to stop.
Even funnier is when they tailgate me for 8 miles on the freeway, angrily whip past me as if how dare you get in my way, and then Indiana's finest pull them over because it's called the fucking "no-fly-zone" and I'm following the speed limit because I do not have $150 to give away today.
I always am reminded of this when people start bitching about speed limits. You guys can have your no-speed-limits freeways when you fucking learn not to tailgate.
Because then you're just giving that power to other people who will rape you and pillage from you and destroy everything you have for a quick buck.
The government is us. One way to make sure it actually represents us is to not be lazy about using your right to vote, and informing yourself as to what is going on and why.
Usually when I encounter your kind of thinking, I find people who are lazy in the brain, and therefore wildly misinformed.
Imagine a nation in complete collapse and disarray because their government can't do anything and cronies and bullies run it all for their own personal benefit.
I notice people like you get the most upset when it looks like someone else is benefiting from government services. Someone with a particular tone of skin color, in point of fact, who you feel should be out in the fields working harder.
I notice this even more amusingly when for example last week the POTUS cut white house tours short and all the right-wing jeering drooling idiots all started screaming. Apparently, cutting spending is only important when it's not for you.
So, you can pardon me if I don't take your POV very seriously. I can tell you've never, ever, ever thought it through.
And now we've gotten down to the nadir of right-wing stupidity here on Slashdot.
What sample is large enough for you?
So you do you think we should just let our climate go wild because it's normal?
We live here too.
Well, except that it is changing growing seasons' lengths and timing, which will definitely have an impact on food supply and prices.
Gee, why would such a subject be politicized? Could it be, perhaps, that someone stands to lose a lot from being forced to modify their dirty, destructive business practices?
It's amusing how many people think of the tundra thawing and springing forth rainforests.
An ecosystem takes a long time to mature.
No need to be confused. "More green" doesn't equal anything on a good/bad scale.
However, you can look forward to several more superstorms a year as we've already seen. So more green, more wet, more violent.
Which is utter nonsense. I think every year now, the statistics show the last 9 of 10, 10 of 11, 11 of 12 and so on years were the warmest on record.
Point being, the last decade has been the warmest ever recorded since records were taken.
Please don't, because then I can freely ignore Big Oil's bullshit on yet another website because the Big Oil Whore was too lazy to post any actual research.
Depends on the elevation.
Fucking duh.
Just to pile on, when you say "both sides do it," you are implicitly refusing to deal with the actual topic at hand, which is for example "budget" or "national security," or whatever.
So when you do that, you are basically throwing up your hands and saying "who can know such things?"
It's fucking lazy. Very, fucking lazy. I don't have much time to argue with people too lazy to at least delve into the elements of a topic. You obviously are.
Except it's not.
Both sides is most definitely an intellectually lazy copout, and you're doing it right here.
And the Galt reference in your .sig just reinforces to me that you are too politically naive or ignorant to have any real opinion on these topics. You haven't put the effort into it.
Or in this case, a fake crisis.
Nobody has ever, ever, ever articulated what is supposed to happen if "we don't get his durn debt under control."
However, when we pay off our debt, depressions happen.
No, that's just the Republicans trying to force cuts to social spending that they're too chickenshit to propose themselves. They call it "starve the beast" and it is an intentional strategy. The kind of strategy you'd ordinarily use to destroy a country.
Just so I can call you stupid, the budget is the responsibility of the House, which is controlled by the Republicans.
So, it is in their court.
I've noticed that you are extra-ignorant on these topics. And you're offtopic too. It's almost like you have an axe to grind and could give a flying fuck about factual reality.
Or, you're stupid. Hard to tell.
No it doesn't.
Idiot.
I think Silver stands out because unlike too many modern American politicians, he is interested in the facts, and not what bullshit he can use the data to support.
So it's not so much that he's done a fantastic job figuring all this out, it's just that he's fucking honest about the results unlike a certain perpetually-deluded political party I'm sick of naming.
Pretty much, fuck you.
I've had a couple of GPs who were very clearly not capable of critical thinking. After an argument with one where I was quite sure I'd had fifth's disease (because I was exposed to it) and he was sure I'd had rheumatic fever, he actually got out his book because I kept asking him if he'd tested for fifths. He tried to show me how there was no need for him to actually figure out what happened, because "indications" told him all he needed to know. Now of course this would have meant the difference between me having a round of antibiotics every tooth cleaning for the rest of my life, or just getting over a childhood disease I'd never had as a child.
~10 years later, I obviously never had rheumatic fever, so he was wrong and I was right.
Oh, and I had another doctor prescribe me an antibiotic after telling me I had a virus. I never filled the prescription and I never returned to his office.
Point being, I don't care what letters you have after your name. If you can't make your case to me I'm not going to accept your opinion, and I don't give a fuck how much you spent on your degree. I've seen the proof that sometimes, my doctor is either stupid, lazy, or sloppy. And I deserve to know what it is they're writing in my record. Period. Otherwise, what did I pay for?