my only beef with fission is the waste. (fusion I believe will remain a pipe dream, but the research should continue)
we can't even pass an annual budget, which makes me very skeptical of trusting those folks with planning out and financing a multidecade (ne: century) plan for dealing with nuclear waste. hell, they aren't even really dealing with the waste we already have.
and its a really big downside. and given the advancements in other fields, particularly renewables, I don't see the pros outweighing the cons with nuclear. if we didn't have such abundant solar wind and tidal energy, I'd be all for nukes. but here on this planet, I see little need for it.
The southern ice cap is a sheet of ice 2 miles thick on top of a land mass we know as Antarctica. It is land ice. It is comprised of fresh water. The majority of it is fairly stable; it doesn't retreat/expand the way the northern one does in a yearly cycle and itsn exposed to the same large fluctuations in dynamics. When it melts it dilutes the water in the surrounding ocean, making it fresh (lower salinity), which increases its freezing temperature, which increases (to a degree) the amount of sea ice that can form.
The northern ice cap is floating on top of an ocean. It is not mostly fresh water. It is entirely sea ice. Due to ocean circulation it is exposed to much larger temperature gradients than the southern cap, and those gradients extend under the entirety of the ice cap (re: sitting on top of an ocean), compared to the southern cap only experiencing limited gradients and only at its edges.
Your mistake is in thinking the two polar ice caps are identical and involve the same mechanics. They aren't and they don't.
and shouldn't it state "reduces the affect of gravity" rather than "eliminate", since orbit is by definition ultimately a result of gravity, albeit a special case, but gravity none the less?
HOAs are interesting. on the one hand its a form of self-government or organization to have a say and protect each other from each other. which is fine when everyone joined originally.
but when someone sells and leaves, the case of the person moving into the area and being forced to join with no option is interesting as a debate topic. the original owner joined willingly when the HOA was setup. But the new owner is joined because the membership is now tied to the property.
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as for slavery, no they shouldn't, because libertarianism is ultimately idiotic, as questions like the "should you be able to sell yourself into slavery" question reveal, and when its adherents say "yes" the reveal what libertarianism truly is: anarchy for the rich, slavery for the poor.
The idea of protecting property values from outside influences outside the scope of zoning law is a good one. there is a benefit to preventing a neighbor from turning his home into a sewage treatment plant (or dog poo manufacturing facility, with 6 dogs in a 4k sq ft lot), and thus negatively impacting the value of everyone around him's most valuable investment.
but there are also the HOAs that go too far: the anal rules about, grass, color, what can and cant be grown in a garden, etc.
like most things that can be good or bad, they need a healthy dose of reasonableness. it is after all, ultimately just another form of collaborative self-government theoretically comprised of the homeowners in the area, and along with that just like with regular civil government, while burning it to the ground is as always an option when things don't go your way, the better option is getting involved.
its only better for buyers if youre only concerned about buyers wealthy enough to afford the raised prices, and not about those with the greatest need, and thus can buy the limited supply, while those not well off enough get screwed.
better for the buyers? what kind of monkeys*** are you living in?
no its the EXACT KIND of free market that both Uber was engaging in and that the GP was excusing, making it neither a strawman nor one that doesn't exist. its also the EXACT KIND of free market that Martin Slezebag Shirekli (sp) engages in when I he buys a generic drug and jacks its price because he knows people who depend on it to live will pay whatever it takes to live.
all you free market is king apologists saying this is somehow different, when its the exact same thing, taking advantage of people's desperation or nonrational decisions, and just saying "oh well, its the free market" are full of such crap.
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yes, how dangerously stupid...to prosecute people for the horrific things they did.
don't we all.
factually incorrect.
Source for the BS statistic: the arse of the bigot known as Pamela Gellar.
I'm defending Trump against accusations of "racism".
Birds of a feather flock together and all that.
you cant honestly be that stupid.
seriously.
you just cant.
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicen...
lacks any substance?
no one knows?
runs counter to global warming theory?
dude its basic freaking chemistry and it was predicted by global warming theory!!
why do you fools keep quoting actors when trying to mock science?
also, the damage of acid rain is pretty clear and indisputable: https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...
and that's just on statues, not counting the increased PH of lakes and streams and the effect of that on the species present.
as the denier myth about cooling once again rears its head.
my only beef with fission is the waste. (fusion I believe will remain a pipe dream, but the research should continue)
we can't even pass an annual budget, which makes me very skeptical of trusting those folks with planning out and financing a multidecade (ne: century) plan for dealing with nuclear waste. hell, they aren't even really dealing with the waste we already have.
and its a really big downside.
and given the advancements in other fields, particularly renewables, I don't see the pros outweighing the cons with nuclear.
if we didn't have such abundant solar wind and tidal energy, I'd be all for nukes. but here on this planet, I see little need for it.
The southern ice cap is a sheet of ice 2 miles thick on top of a land mass we know as Antarctica. It is land ice. It is comprised of fresh water. The majority of it is fairly stable; it doesn't retreat/expand the way the northern one does in a yearly cycle and itsn exposed to the same large fluctuations in dynamics. When it melts it dilutes the water in the surrounding ocean, making it fresh (lower salinity), which increases its freezing temperature, which increases (to a degree) the amount of sea ice that can form.
The northern ice cap is floating on top of an ocean. It is not mostly fresh water. It is entirely sea ice. Due to ocean circulation it is exposed to much larger temperature gradients than the southern cap, and those gradients extend under the entirety of the ice cap (re: sitting on top of an ocean), compared to the southern cap only experiencing limited gradients and only at its edges.
Your mistake is in thinking the two polar ice caps are identical and involve the same mechanics.
They aren't and they don't.
no one is suggesting we live like the amish
works fine everywhere else.
the us isn't such a special snowflake that it cant work here too.
not sure if troll or really that stupid
how very libertarian of you to demand peoples' access to the courts be stripped.
and shouldn't it state "reduces the affect of gravity" rather than "eliminate", since orbit is by definition ultimately a result of gravity, albeit a special case, but gravity none the less?
HOAs are interesting.
on the one hand its a form of self-government or organization to have a say and protect each other from each other.
which is fine when everyone joined originally.
but when someone sells and leaves, the case of the person moving into the area and being forced to join with no option is interesting as a debate topic. the original owner joined willingly when the HOA was setup. But the new owner is joined because the membership is now tied to the property.
--
as for slavery, no they shouldn't, because libertarianism is ultimately idiotic, as questions like the "should you be able to sell yourself into slavery" question reveal, and when its adherents say "yes" the reveal what libertarianism truly is: anarchy for the rich, slavery for the poor.
HOAs are like many things a blessing and curse.
The idea of protecting property values from outside influences outside the scope of zoning law is a good one. there is a benefit to preventing a neighbor from turning his home into a sewage treatment plant (or dog poo manufacturing facility, with 6 dogs in a 4k sq ft lot), and thus negatively impacting the value of everyone around him's most valuable investment.
but there are also the HOAs that go too far: the anal rules about, grass, color, what can and cant be grown in a garden, etc.
like most things that can be good or bad, they need a healthy dose of reasonableness. it is after all, ultimately just another form of collaborative self-government theoretically comprised of the homeowners in the area, and along with that just like with regular civil government, while burning it to the ground is as always an option when things don't go your way, the better option is getting involved.
the dangers of blindly following algorithms
No one says that.
then you haven't been reading the same thread as everyone else.
congratulations you just described market failure, that thing you insist doesn't exist.
its only better for buyers if youre only concerned about buyers wealthy enough to afford the raised prices, and not about those with the greatest need, and thus can buy the limited supply, while those not well off enough get screwed.
better for the buyers?
what kind of monkeys*** are you living in?
no its the EXACT KIND of free market that both Uber was engaging in and that the GP was excusing, making it neither a strawman nor one that doesn't exist.
its also the EXACT KIND of free market that Martin Slezebag Shirekli (sp) engages in when I he buys a generic drug and jacks its price because he knows people who depend on it to live will pay whatever it takes to live.
all you free market is king apologists saying this is somehow different, when its the exact same thing, taking advantage of people's desperation or nonrational decisions, and just saying "oh well, its the free market" are full of such crap.
bullshit.
situations like this are why cab companies are barred by law from engaging in things like surge pricing.
awww.
poor lil moderator got his feelings hurt by facts