the SEC is a largely powerless group that rarely enforces its own rules except in the most egregious situations, and rarely against the biggest offenders.
when they talk about regulatory capture, the SEC is the textbook definition.
if they're leaving them in place this often, i must imagine the CERN accelerator's conditions are less like a server room, and more like the wiring harnesses of an aircraft, and so they've been making similar decisions.
in such packed conditions disconnected cables and wires are frequently left in place (and in aircraft, rarely completely marked because of both too little space and the FOD hazard). the amount of manhours needed to redo an the wiring harnesses to remove a cable every time is simply not worth it. instead the work is saved til it becomes essential, so the harnesses only get redone once.
plus, there's been several times that the unused cable can become used once again. and if you add a cable or wire, you DO have to redo the wiring harnesses...unless there's already an unused cable in place, in which case you just saved a ton of time.
while you were dog whistling about solyndra, you ignored the fact that the DOE loan program has a record 97% success rate, earning a profit for the government, with only a 3% failure rate to date.
oh gee golly, solyndra failed? oh gee. someone tell the government to get out of the investment business, where a typical venture capitalist firm is considered successful if only ~33% of investments pay off (meaning 66% fail).
oh wait. maybe the DOE isn't so bad it this after all.
they said that about space exploration and early nasa they said that about rural phone line installation they said that about the internet they said that about a lot of things that the private sector didn't give a damn about until after government made it possible and opened up the market. they said that about the interstate
someday you and they will stop saying stupid things about new technologies and necessary infrastructure
(and btw: trains don't lose money, no, ot even amtrak
Fact: The largest donors in the US political process gave almost a billion dollars - all to Democrats.
you mean 'bullshit'.
Fact: the largest donors arent even in that list because its only the direct contributions, not the dark money spend helping campaigns that campaigns arent even allowed to know about or coordinate with. you know...where 99% of political money -actually- gets spent.
The totals do not include contributions to 501(c) organizations, whose political spending has increased markedly in recent cycles.
So since this is only money given direclty to candidates, and not to the dark money front groups, like the 50 odd different ones run by the the Koch's that they will be distrubuting a billion dollars through. a billion being 10x more than the top 10 of that link contributed in 2014.
So you provided skewed information, and then made a bullshit point based on it.
not all subsidies are cash in kind. most renewable subsidies are still in the upfront costs area because they dont have anywhere near the existing buildout that the fossil fuels industry has.
most oil/gas/goal subsidies at this point are in the form of tax credits and breaks.
government should pick winners and losers when its in the public interest. its in the public interest to eventually abandon coal and oil and use many renewables as possible.
Actually, the top 5 cities for violent crime are all cities lack gun control (4 of which are legally banned, by state law, from enacting gun control). and cities like New York, with its strict gun control, is actually ranked one of the safest cities in the country.
im saving the stuff im saving too. but then i dont work in the industry. (but my wife being a music teacher, shes probably at the top of the list for the likely coming teacher layoffs.)
lot of my friends do though. half of them been laid off in past month.
im not really in disagreement. just apprehensive about where its going, cause if the state here doesnt get its act together, its in for a rough ride. to my mind these states that are so dependent on one main industry (we have several, but the state government is primarily funded by the oil/gas industry taxes) like Oklahoma (or WVa since seveal of its towns are utterly dependent on coal mining) should be leading the way in the reasearch/implementation and vocational training related to other energy sources. course, they dont, cause that's liberal hippy californican sissy stuff.
and the citizens will suffer for it, and that's the part i really wish i could fix.
Hell, animals much lesser than humans affect the climate. There are several such keystone species capable of causing whats known as a trophic cascade. for examples:
Beavers, because of their dams, create wetlands in places that wouldn't naturally support or create one, increasing biodiverty and health of a system, and what it can support.
Wolves, because of their predation changing the behavior of prey animals (especially deer), cause rivers to change course and flow clearer, and (again) increase plant and animal biodiversity.
Whales, because of their diving/surfacing patterns, fertilize the oceans, and mix nutrients (aka food) between all the layers of the oceans, both by eating and then defecating, and simply their movement itself as they ascend/descend. This behavior actually noticeably impacts CO2 levels of the atmosphere by keeping plankton populations healthy and abundant, increasing the amount CO2 absorbed into the ocean, and O2 content of the air.
And of course, humans over hunting and reducing whale populations by more than 95% also therefore impacts the system (planet) negatively.
So much for that theory that people cant affect the planet. We absolutely do, in myriad ways.
the guys being laid from the oil/gas companies are going to have a hard time pulling the same maneuver. the states that run on an oil dependent economy are also going to have trouble pulling it off as they watch their budgets crater.
Oklahoma is projecting a 900 million hole this year. this after last years much smaller price drops caused a 600 million hole that they -barely- handled by cutting tons of services (couldn't cancel the oddly coincidental 600+ odd million in poorly timed tax cuts after all). this year, they wont be likely to be able to skate by again; they're already talking laying off loads teachers....in the worst and most underpaid state education system in the country.
so ya. enjoy your cheap gas.
(yes, im a green enviro whacko who wants to see a prius or better in every garage, but I also know the consequences of cratering oil prices. the sharper the disruption to the status quo, the shaper the economic shock to states that depend on oil, coal, etc, and most of them aren't prepared to shift en masse to the newer technologies. imo they should be, and should be investing in them heavily cause they should be able to see it coming...but these states are completely averse to state spending on pretty much anything, so they refuse to do it)
satellites don't record temperature directly, and have lower accuracy. they also are only capable of reading surface temperatures, which is the entire reason for the hiatus that wasn't: they physically incapable of detecting the increasing heat of the subsurface ocean.
they're good for a big picture view of trends, but you have to know their shortcomings.
If you do E, you're a fool. Instruments (and thus accuracies) have improved considerably. And automation (of reporting) has increased dramatically the number of data points possible to take in a daily, or even at all. There are gaps in data from several older stations due to the instrument being inaccessible for a period of time and no one able to get to it to make a reading.
Also, if you do E, im curious where you found tens (or hundreds) of thousands of additional 100 year old instruments. You show that you have little real world experience in the world of measurement, long or short term, or the care, maintenance, and use of instruments.
I think all religions are equally bad as well. I also think they are equally good. they're a mixed bag.
And I don't got around repeating links to bigoted BS, and accuse a fifth of the worlds population of being terrorists. The worst part is you don't even see the things you say for what they are.
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the SEC is a largely powerless group that rarely enforces its own rules except in the most egregious situations, and rarely against the biggest offenders.
when they talk about regulatory capture, the SEC is the textbook definition.
if they're leaving them in place this often, i must imagine the CERN accelerator's conditions are less like a server room, and more like the wiring harnesses of an aircraft, and so they've been making similar decisions.
in such packed conditions disconnected cables and wires are frequently left in place (and in aircraft, rarely completely marked because of both too little space and the FOD hazard). the amount of manhours needed to redo an the wiring harnesses to remove a cable every time is simply not worth it. instead the work is saved til it becomes essential, so the harnesses only get redone once.
plus, there's been several times that the unused cable can become used once again. and if you add a cable or wire, you DO have to redo the wiring harnesses...unless there's already an unused cable in place, in which case you just saved a ton of time.
while you were dog whistling about solyndra, you ignored the fact that the DOE loan program has a record 97% success rate, earning a profit for the government, with only a 3% failure rate to date.
oh gee golly, solyndra failed? oh gee. someone tell the government to get out of the investment business, where a typical venture capitalist firm is considered successful if only ~33% of investments pay off (meaning 66% fail).
oh wait. maybe the DOE isn't so bad it this after all.
they said that about space exploration and early nasa
they said that about rural phone line installation
they said that about the internet
they said that about a lot of things that the private sector didn't give a damn about until after government made it possible and opened up the market.
they said that about the interstate
someday you and they will stop saying stupid things about new technologies and necessary infrastructure
(and btw: trains don't lose money, no, ot even amtrak
Fact: The largest donors in the US political process gave almost a billion dollars - all to Democrats.
you mean 'bullshit'.
Fact: the largest donors arent even in that list because its only the direct contributions, not the dark money spend helping campaigns that campaigns arent even allowed to know about or coordinate with. you know...where 99% of political money -actually- gets spent.
The totals do not include contributions to 501(c) organizations, whose political spending has increased markedly in recent cycles.
So since this is only money given direclty to candidates, and not to the dark money front groups, like the 50 odd different ones run by the the Koch's that they will be distrubuting a billion dollars through. a billion being 10x more than the top 10 of that link contributed in 2014.
So you provided skewed information, and then made a bullshit point based on it.
hardly surprising.
you'd need a cite for the sky being blue.
just typical WSJ editorial word salad.
not all subsidies are cash in kind.
most renewable subsidies are still in the upfront costs area because they dont have anywhere near the existing buildout that the fossil fuels industry has.
most oil/gas/goal subsidies at this point are in the form of tax credits and breaks.
government should pick winners and losers when its in the public interest.
its in the public interest to eventually abandon coal and oil and use many renewables as possible.
No, it hasn't.
Chicago has not been the murder capital for at least the past 25 years.
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Damn those pesky facts.
Actually, the top 5 cities for violent crime are all cities lack gun control (4 of which are legally banned, by state law, from enacting gun control).
and cities like New York, with its strict gun control, is actually ranked one of the safest cities in the country.
Damn.
So much for your BS.
im saving the stuff im saving too. but then i dont work in the industry.
(but my wife being a music teacher, shes probably at the top of the list for the likely coming teacher layoffs.)
lot of my friends do though.
half of them been laid off in past month.
im not really in disagreement.
just apprehensive about where its going, cause if the state here doesnt get its act together, its in for a rough ride.
to my mind these states that are so dependent on one main industry (we have several, but the state government is primarily funded by the oil/gas industry taxes) like Oklahoma (or WVa since seveal of its towns are utterly dependent on coal mining) should be leading the way in the reasearch/implementation and vocational training related to other energy sources. course, they dont, cause that's liberal hippy californican sissy stuff.
and the citizens will suffer for it, and that's the part i really wish i could fix.
1 person? no.
but 7+ billion of them?
absolutely.
Hell, animals much lesser than humans affect the climate.
There are several such keystone species capable of causing whats known as a trophic cascade.
for examples:
Beavers, because of their dams, create wetlands in places that wouldn't naturally support or create one, increasing biodiverty and health of a system, and what it can support.
Wolves, because of their predation changing the behavior of prey animals (especially deer), cause rivers to change course and flow clearer, and (again) increase plant and animal biodiversity.
Whales, because of their diving/surfacing patterns, fertilize the oceans, and mix nutrients (aka food) between all the layers of the oceans, both by eating and then defecating, and simply their movement itself as they ascend/descend. This behavior actually noticeably impacts CO2 levels of the atmosphere by keeping plankton populations healthy and abundant, increasing the amount CO2 absorbed into the ocean, and O2 content of the air.
And of course, humans over hunting and reducing whale populations by more than 95% also therefore impacts the system (planet) negatively.
So much for that theory that people cant affect the planet.
We absolutely do, in myriad ways.
Volcanoes, global annual total, average: ~300 million tons CO2
Humanity, global annual total, average: 40+ billion tons.
And volcanoes spew much more in the form of dust and aerosols, resulting in an overall cooling effect from eruptions, not a warming.
That's a fact.
Nope.
the guys being laid from the oil/gas companies are going to have a hard time pulling the same maneuver.
the states that run on an oil dependent economy are also going to have trouble pulling it off as they watch their budgets crater.
Oklahoma is projecting a 900 million hole this year. this after last years much smaller price drops caused a 600 million hole that they -barely- handled by cutting tons of services (couldn't cancel the oddly coincidental 600+ odd million in poorly timed tax cuts after all). this year, they wont be likely to be able to skate by again; they're already talking laying off loads teachers....in the worst and most underpaid state education system in the country.
so ya.
enjoy your cheap gas.
(yes, im a green enviro whacko who wants to see a prius or better in every garage, but I also know the consequences of cratering oil prices. the sharper the disruption to the status quo, the shaper the economic shock to states that depend on oil, coal, etc, and most of them aren't prepared to shift en masse to the newer technologies. imo they should be, and should be investing in them heavily cause they should be able to see it coming...but these states are completely averse to state spending on pretty much anything, so they refuse to do it)
and you continue to push misinformation from spencer.
satellites don't record temperature directly, and have lower accuracy.
they also are only capable of reading surface temperatures, which is the entire reason for the hiatus that wasn't: they physically incapable of detecting the increasing heat of the subsurface ocean.
they're good for a big picture view of trends, but you have to know their shortcomings.
If you do E, you're a fool.
Instruments (and thus accuracies) have improved considerably.
And automation (of reporting) has increased dramatically the number of data points possible to take in a daily, or even at all.
There are gaps in data from several older stations due to the instrument being inaccessible for a period of time and no one able to get to it to make a reading.
Also, if you do E, im curious where you found tens (or hundreds) of thousands of additional 100 year old instruments.
You show that you have little real world experience in the world of measurement, long or short term, or the care, maintenance, and use of instruments.
browncoat scum!
I think all religions are equally bad as well.
I also think they are equally good.
they're a mixed bag.
And I don't got around repeating links to bigoted BS, and accuse a fifth of the worlds population of being terrorists.
The worst part is you don't even see the things you say for what they are.
there is no point in addressing outright bigotry other than to call it what it is.
you deserve no more or less than that.
found the bigot.
I'm sure you know a lot about that