Trump has also definitely violated the Emoluments clause and could be impeached for that.
If owning stock in a company, that receives revenue from a foreign entity is a violation of the Emoluments clause, we will never ever have a President that isn't under the cloud of impeachment!
not being a part of a treaty is not "explicitly trying to destroy the planet" i mean....do you hear yourself???
Treaty, what treaty, there never was any treaty; a proposed treaty have to be ratified by the Senate. The best you can say about the Paris Accord is it was an agreement with the then POTUS, who is no longer the POTUS.
Those graphs only show CO2 emissions, the, the grownups were talking about pollution. In China there are cities where people wear gas masks (no not surgical masks either) outside because the photochemical smog and ozone is so bad.
Wind is getting a lot of push-back in Ontario, some large scale farms have been canceled. Michigan had an amendment to it's constitution requiring the mandatory 10% renewable energy be increased to 25% fail. The electric companies love wind power because their profits are regulated to 10%, which means the more money they spend, the more money they make! People are waking up to the fact that it's a boondoggle at their expense.
What I've heard is night time cooling will be reduced by 0.06K, pushing the average up 0.03K i. e. no measurable difference. Those estimates are per the climate models which have yet to demonstrate predictive ability.
The thing is once you've gotten into the ballistic phase, the flight path and speed is pretty set. You just put some gravel in the flight path, that's the only way from point A to the target and the reentry vehicle's 17,000 MPH of momentum destroys it. A Minuteman III silo has a 50/50 chance of surviving a 50KT detonation at or beyond 100m. This means the detonation has to occur a little less than 4 millionths of a second before impact! My understanding is a uranium device is incapable of detonating with that degree of timing. A plutonium device is capable of that timing, but they are hard to make and it several orders harder to make light enough to be lofted by an ICBM and several orders more to achieve the accuracy required to neutralize a counter-strike.
North Korea is under UN orders to cease their nuclear and missile test programs. North Korea has elected to ignore those orders. Being unnecessarily provocative toward the United State and it's allies seems to give the short fat kid with the funny hair cut an all day woody and makes him feel important. We've tried sanctions, they did work. We've tried "strategic ignoring" which didn't work. Now we're trying to have both Russia and China apply pressure, if that doesn't work, things will get ugly.
Better than what? Seems to me with all the science and education and, you know, no black plague we are doing pretty good, and would like to keep it that way. We have identified a threat with the same tool that got us to this halcyon age. Stop trying to pretend science is panic or conspiracy.
The Black Plague happened during the Dark Ages, also known as LIA, Little Ice Age, one of the things that lead me to realize that warmer is better.
I think a good idea would be to force Congress to carpool to work, an even better idea is we pick who rides with whom. I think we could put a dent in the public debt by selling subscriptions to the interior cam feed of Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer or Paul Ryan and Nancy Pelosi riding into work together everyday for 13 weeks! No, scratch Paul Ryan and Nancy Pelosi , Representatives should ride public transportation, only Senators should be privileged with car pooling.
Considering the number of right-wing extremists in the hinterlands that swear they'll shoot blue-hats (UN Peacekeeping Forces) on sight; what could go wrong?
This thought process is exactly why Trump is President. Globalism doesn't get traction in the United States because in the US sovereignty is passed from We the People to Government, not from a higher power down to government.
And while the medieval warm period was, in fact, a thing (with parts, notably the coastal regions, of Greenland being rather greener than today)- it was so incredibly localized that it did not affect global average temperatures at all.
Research is indicating that the medieval warm period was much more global than those with financial interests in it being regional will admit.
Observed increases in ocean heat content (OHC) and temperature are robust indicators of global warming during the past several decades. We used high-resolution proxy records from sediment cores to extend these observations in the Pacific 10,000 years beyond the instrumental record. We show that water masses linked to North Pacific and Antarctic intermediate waters were warmer by 2.1 ± 0.4C and 1.5 ± 0.4C, respectively, during the middle Holocene Thermal Maximum than over the past century. Both water masses were ~0.9C warmer during the Medieval Warm period than during the Little Ice Age and ~0.65 warmer than in recent decades. Although documented changes in global surface temperatures during the Holocene and Common era are relatively small, the concomitant changes in OHC are large. Pacific Ocean Heat Content During the Past 10,000 Years Science 01 Nov 2013: Vol. 342, Issue 6158, pp. 617-621 DOI: 10.1126/science.1240837
Humans, Human Civilization and the environment all did much better at warmer temperatures.
It's actually a brilliant concept that could quite easily scale into the ~20 tonne region, but the aircraft would be necessarily larger. Hence the smaller prototype.
I beg to differ, It's a blatant attempt to award a "make work" program to the good 'ol boys, because SpaceX is on the verge of handing United Launch Allience's ass to them. It's also not up to the "brilliant concept" level, it basically a first stage rocket boaster with wings and landing gear; you get all of the drag of wings, plus the mechanical complications of landing gear.
Nah, they just have too reorientate the ring occasionally so the X class CME misses it. Man, if you're in the bathroom when one of those suckers hit the ring, it's like pissing on an electric fence!
Pray tell me, why do you think that your"should" has more merit than the "should" of the person you are arguing with? I mean, you are a self-confessed drunkard and alcohol abuse lowers cognitive abilities quite a bit.
Then it should have been simple to refute the argument, rather than going straight to ad hominem.
Cool, I grew up watching the unlimited hydroplanes racing on the Detroit river powered by the mighty Merlins. Yes I know the new turbines are faster, but they just don't have the sound.
A 4-cyl turbo engine today easily makes more HP than a carb V8 of the 70s.
Yes and no. Many turbo cars have considerable turbo lag, and for things like passing someone as quickly as possible, the old muscle car can still hold an edge.
The 2017 Ford GT, 6 cylinder 3.5 L EcoBoost V6 twin-turbo has over 600Hp and no noticeable turbo-lag, of course a Keith Black Hemi has 600 Hp out of the crate and sounds like a 426 Hemi. I do have a nostalgic spot in my heart for the 4 cylinder Offenhauser engines but they sound like a real engine, not a weed-wacker on amphetamines.
But isn't this meddling with peoples' choice of cars. Yes! We're encouraging people to make choices that cost us less. But we're still giving them a choice. That's more than you get under a system where you're forced to pay the consequences of other peoples' selfish choices.
then you followed it with
.... people are still driving more gas guzzzlers than is offset by the income, the answer is to raise the tax.
so obviously you are more concerned with using a Government proxy to bully people into behavior that fits your personal agenda than you are for people paying for their choices.
Seems in your universe, people are free to choose, as long as they chose what you want.
It would be pretty hard getting a rotary engine under the hood of a car, the good 'ol Rolls Royce Merlin engine might fit. Update it with modern computer engine management, fuel injection and 4 decent turbos, you should be able to get 2,000 HP.
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Trump has also definitely violated the Emoluments clause and could be impeached for that.
If owning stock in a company, that receives revenue from a foreign entity is a violation of the Emoluments clause, we will never ever have a President that isn't under the cloud of impeachment!
not being a part of a treaty is not "explicitly trying to destroy the planet" i mean ....do you hear yourself???
Treaty, what treaty, there never was any treaty; a proposed treaty have to be ratified by the Senate. The best you can say about the Paris Accord is it was an agreement with the then POTUS, who is no longer the POTUS.
second largest polluter in the world, and the largest per capita
source?
Not that hard to find.
Those graphs only show CO2 emissions, the, the grownups were talking about pollution. In China there are cities where people wear gas masks (no not surgical masks either) outside because the photochemical smog and ozone is so bad.
... not the greatest president for environmental efforts (that would probably be Nixon so far), ...
Never thought I'd live to see a comment like that on /.
Wind is getting a lot of push-back in Ontario, some large scale farms have been canceled. Michigan had an amendment to it's constitution requiring the mandatory 10% renewable energy be increased to 25% fail.
The electric companies love wind power because their profits are regulated to 10%, which means the more money they spend, the more money they make! People are waking up to the fact that it's a boondoggle at their expense.
What I've heard is night time cooling will be reduced by 0.06K, pushing the average up 0.03K i. e. no measurable difference. Those estimates are per the climate models which have yet to demonstrate predictive ability.
The thing is once you've gotten into the ballistic phase, the flight path and speed is pretty set. You just put some gravel in the flight path, that's the only way from point A to the target and the reentry vehicle's 17,000 MPH of momentum destroys it.
A Minuteman III silo has a 50/50 chance of surviving a 50KT detonation at or beyond 100m. This means the detonation has to occur a little less than 4 millionths of a second before impact! My understanding is a uranium device is incapable of detonating with that degree of timing. A plutonium device is capable of that timing, but they are hard to make and it several orders harder to make light enough to be lofted by an ICBM and several orders more to achieve the accuracy required to neutralize a counter-strike.
North Korea is under UN orders to cease their nuclear and missile test programs. North Korea has elected to ignore those orders. Being unnecessarily provocative toward the United State and it's allies seems to give the short fat kid with the funny hair cut an all day woody and makes him feel important. We've tried sanctions, they did work. We've tried "strategic ignoring" which didn't work. Now we're trying to have both Russia and China apply pressure, if that doesn't work, things will get ugly.
Cool Idea, the only channels they'd get on TV is CSPAN.
That would be tough with me, Irarely missspel thinks the same way twise.
Yeah it's all fun and games until a Congressman get slipped a shot of polonium 210 or a Whitehouse staffer's head turns to pink mist.
Better than what? Seems to me with all the science and education and, you know, no black plague we are doing pretty good, and would like to keep it that way. We have identified a threat with the same tool that got us to this halcyon age. Stop trying to pretend science is panic or conspiracy.
The Black Plague happened during the Dark Ages, also known as LIA, Little Ice Age, one of the things that lead me to realize that warmer is better.
I think a good idea would be to force Congress to carpool to work, an even better idea is we pick who rides with whom. I think we could put a dent in the public debt by selling subscriptions to the interior cam feed of Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer or Paul Ryan and Nancy Pelosi riding into work together everyday for 13 weeks!
No, scratch Paul Ryan and Nancy Pelosi , Representatives should ride public transportation, only Senators should be privileged with car pooling.
Considering the number of right-wing extremists in the hinterlands that swear they'll shoot blue-hats (UN Peacekeeping Forces) on sight; what could go wrong?
This thought process is exactly why Trump is President. Globalism doesn't get traction in the United States because in the US sovereignty is passed from We the People to Government, not from a higher power down to government.
Yes but 5 of those 10 people live in nations likely to receive trillions of dollars in "climate reparations".
And while the medieval warm period was, in fact, a thing (with parts, notably the coastal regions, of Greenland being rather greener than today)- it was so incredibly localized that it did not affect global average temperatures at all.
Research is indicating that the medieval warm period was much more global than those with financial interests in it being regional will admit.
Humans, Human Civilization and the environment all did much better at warmer temperatures.
It's actually a brilliant concept that could quite easily scale into the ~20 tonne region, but the aircraft would be necessarily larger. Hence the smaller prototype.
I beg to differ, It's a blatant attempt to award a "make work" program to the good 'ol boys, because SpaceX is on the verge of handing United Launch Allience's ass to them. It's also not up to the "brilliant concept" level, it basically a first stage rocket boaster with wings and landing gear; you get all of the drag of wings, plus the mechanical complications of landing gear.
Nah, they just have too reorientate the ring occasionally so the X class CME misses it. Man, if you're in the bathroom when one of those suckers hit the ring, it's like pissing on an electric fence!
Yes but you have to give them an A+ for honesty, now STFU and get your cell back in the battery!
Pray tell me, why do you think that your"should" has more merit than the "should" of the person you are arguing with?
I mean, you are a self-confessed drunkard and alcohol abuse lowers cognitive abilities quite a bit.
Then it should have been simple to refute the argument, rather than going straight to ad hominem.
Yes I did.
Cool, I grew up watching the unlimited hydroplanes racing on the Detroit river powered by the mighty Merlins. Yes I know the new turbines are faster, but they just don't have the sound.
A 4-cyl turbo engine today easily makes more HP than a carb V8 of the 70s.
Yes and no. Many turbo cars have considerable turbo lag, and for things like passing someone as quickly as possible, the old muscle car can still hold an edge.
The 2017 Ford GT, 6 cylinder 3.5 L EcoBoost V6 twin-turbo has over 600Hp and no noticeable turbo-lag, of course a Keith Black Hemi has 600 Hp out of the crate and sounds like a 426 Hemi. I do have a nostalgic spot in my heart for the 4 cylinder Offenhauser engines but they sound like a real engine, not a weed-wacker on amphetamines.
First you said
But isn't this meddling with peoples' choice of cars. Yes! We're encouraging people to make choices that cost us less. But we're still giving them a choice. That's more than you get under a system where you're forced to pay the consequences of other peoples' selfish choices.
then you followed it with
.... people are still driving more gas guzzzlers than is offset by the income, the answer is to raise the tax.
so obviously you are more concerned with using a Government proxy to bully people into behavior that fits your personal agenda than you are for people paying for their choices.
Seems in your universe, people are free to choose, as long as they chose what you want.
It would be pretty hard getting a rotary engine under the hood of a car, the good 'ol Rolls Royce Merlin engine might fit. Update it with modern computer engine management, fuel injection and 4 decent turbos, you should be able to get 2,000 HP.