Physical addiction is punishable by physical withdrawal symptoms plus increased susceptibility to HIV. No government punishment can really add anything to that set of dissuaders, and incarceration just makes all of these effects worse. So the War on Drugs is not only an ineffective punishment for hard drug addicts, but it trashes the Constitutional rights the rest of us used to enjoy. Thanks, morons, for the no-knock raids and the arbitrary cash seizures.
This is an article by Amory Lovins, a well known axe-grinder from the darkest days of the Seventies, not by a nuclear expert. Forbes is run by Wall Street lunkheads who don't know the difference. When Germany turned off the first half of its nuclear plants in its panic after Fukushima, it had the fallback of being able to buy power from France while it shifts its own generation baseload to brown coal.
Japan has no adjacent nuclear country to get transitional power from (Korea is too far away and is too busy smelting the steel that Germany no longer can) and being a totally igneous country has no domestic coal supply to transition to. Japan is limping along right now on a power grid whose shortfall is being made up by hastily reactivated old coal and natural gas plants that had been mothballed for years. The fuel for these plants all has to be imported at great expense, which is why Japan is restarting its nuclear plants after a series of post-Fukushima safety tests. Something tells me that Germany never will turn off the second half of its nuclear plants as scheduled in 2022, especially if science gives additional support to the AGW hypothesis and/or if low-cost standardized reactors start pouring off Chinese assembly lines.
Your very own source is a citation of lung cancer associated with concentrated doses of radon, in places like unventilated basements. There is no force on the planet more powerful than natural selection: if those superconcentrations of radon occurred as natural background, we would have adapted to that too.
The Fukushima exclusion zone will shrink with time as the site is cleaned up. Meanwhile, the German Greens have replaced nuclear with the world's largest strip mine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garzweiler_surface_mine), which is about to be supplemented by a pit twice its size (Tagebau Hambach). Who can't love the smell of smoldering lignite in the morning!
Yours was actually an early, post-WW II fear about radiation effects, with the modern perception trending the other way, as TFA indicates.
If radiation really were 'cumulative' with no threshold, the constant drizzle of background radiation we all live in would have terminated human existence long before this argument even started.
Advertising is also why the Internet has evolved far past Usenet discussions. Ads bring us current TV episodes and today's news. I'll take that over alt.whine.virginity any time.
Governments, ours especially, are not going to be participating in a lunar return, because there is no way that manned space programs beyond LEO can ever be made safe enough by today's standards.
In the long run, space exploration will be better off for this.
When you see AGW enthusiasts relentlessly opposing every lower-carbon solution instead of just the high-carbon energy sources, you have to wonder what their real agenda is. Just look at their desperate rearguard sniping against the Ivanpah, CA power plant. Their latest allegation is that it "fries birds."
More precisely, habituated behavior is a spectrum condition. There is a point when any habituated behavior, such as cleaning the house, can become a counterproductive addiction. One way we will be able to treat this reliably and medically.
You can be addicted just as easily to legal drugs as to any substance on the federal schedule. You can be addicted to behaviors like gambling and eating. This problem needs to be addressed medically.
For some reason, roughly half the apparent street traffic in Beantown is amphibious tour vehicles. What's it going to be like when these things replace the current WW II design?
Remember that at the time this happened, the McDonald's incident was interpreted as some weird, purely French reaction to a customer who walked in with a homemade eyeglass camera. But a year later, when Google came out with Glass, the same reaction started busting out all over, right at home.
What it actually was turned out to be a new discovery about human nature. Intellectually, we love to hate surveillance. Yet in the real world, we quickly learn to ignore Big Brother's cameras up on the wall. They become part of the forgotten background of our lives. BUt sousveillance - we find it to be unexpectedly creepy.
If this arrangement applied to all books in the Kindle format, with unlimited one-book-at-a-time availability, I would be on it like scales on lawyers.
There's nothing wrong with advocating big government for tasks that only a big government can accomplish, such as defense or multistate water infrastructure. The problem is that there is a mentality out there that insists on centralizing every activity, no matter what, on principle. Your dog craps on the sidewalk, and they will invoke the United Nations.
All countries follow the same rule for taxation of citizens: when you live in another country, you remain a 'visitor', taxed in your home country, for one year. After that, your status switches to being taxed by the host country instead, because that's whose economy you live in and benefit from.
The one country that does not follow this rule is the US. Its citizens are taxed in both the home country and, after one year, in the host country. You can credit the host-country tax against the US tax, but because this means a lot of additional paperwork for both employee and employer, foreign countries have mostly just stopped hiring Americans for overseas jobs. Now that FATCA makes it difficult for such employees to open bank accounts for local, everyday transactions, the situation is worse still.
And hell yes, the average overseas American would take your deal yesterday.
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We learned this from Grassy Noel, the famed British snitch.
Around here, the aliens are more interested in the stuff we keep in our garages.
Physical addiction is punishable by physical withdrawal symptoms plus increased susceptibility to HIV. No government punishment can really add anything to that set of dissuaders, and incarceration just makes all of these effects worse. So the War on Drugs is not only an ineffective punishment for hard drug addicts, but it trashes the Constitutional rights the rest of us used to enjoy. Thanks, morons, for the no-knock raids and the arbitrary cash seizures.
This is an article by Amory Lovins, a well known axe-grinder from the darkest days of the Seventies, not by a nuclear expert. Forbes is run by Wall Street lunkheads who don't know the difference. When Germany turned off the first half of its nuclear plants in its panic after Fukushima, it had the fallback of being able to buy power from France while it shifts its own generation baseload to brown coal.
Japan has no adjacent nuclear country to get transitional power from (Korea is too far away and is too busy smelting the steel that Germany no longer can) and being a totally igneous country has no domestic coal supply to transition to. Japan is limping along right now on a power grid whose shortfall is being made up by hastily reactivated old coal and natural gas plants that had been mothballed for years. The fuel for these plants all has to be imported at great expense, which is why Japan is restarting its nuclear plants after a series of post-Fukushima safety tests. Something tells me that Germany never will turn off the second half of its nuclear plants as scheduled in 2022, especially if science gives additional support to the AGW hypothesis and/or if low-cost standardized reactors start pouring off Chinese assembly lines.
Your very own source is a citation of lung cancer associated with concentrated doses of radon, in places like unventilated basements. There is no force on the planet more powerful than natural selection: if those superconcentrations of radon occurred as natural background, we would have adapted to that too.
The Fukushima exclusion zone will shrink with time as the site is cleaned up. Meanwhile, the German Greens have replaced nuclear with the world's largest strip mine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garzweiler_surface_mine), which is about to be supplemented by a pit twice its size (Tagebau Hambach). Who can't love the smell of smoldering lignite in the morning!
Yours was actually an early, post-WW II fear about radiation effects, with the modern perception trending the other way, as TFA indicates.
If radiation really were 'cumulative' with no threshold, the constant drizzle of background radiation we all live in would have terminated human existence long before this argument even started.
So Robert Plant was way ahead of his time!
Advertising is also why the Internet has evolved far past Usenet discussions. Ads bring us current TV episodes and today's news. I'll take that over alt.whine.virginity any time.
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Governments, ours especially, are not going to be participating in a lunar return, because there is no way that manned space programs beyond LEO can ever be made safe enough by today's standards.
In the long run, space exploration will be better off for this.
When you see AGW enthusiasts relentlessly opposing every lower-carbon solution instead of just the high-carbon energy sources, you have to wonder what their real agenda is. Just look at their desperate rearguard sniping against the Ivanpah, CA power plant. Their latest allegation is that it "fries birds."
And dentists would no longer have to move to Portland to make a pile of money.
More precisely, habituated behavior is a spectrum condition. There is a point when any habituated behavior, such as cleaning the house, can become a counterproductive addiction. One way we will be able to treat this reliably and medically.
I really, really had to look to find the "ageism" in the comment you referenced. And yes, by using my magnifier I could read the fine print.
So what exactly is the tax rate on Christians in your part of Iraq, "Jim"?
You can be addicted just as easily to legal drugs as to any substance on the federal schedule. You can be addicted to behaviors like gambling and eating. This problem needs to be addressed medically.
For some reason, roughly half the apparent street traffic in Beantown is amphibious tour vehicles. What's it going to be like when these things replace the current WW II design?
Remember that at the time this happened, the McDonald's incident was interpreted as some weird, purely French reaction to a customer who walked in with a homemade eyeglass camera. But a year later, when Google came out with Glass, the same reaction started busting out all over, right at home.
What it actually was turned out to be a new discovery about human nature. Intellectually, we love to hate surveillance. Yet in the real world, we quickly learn to ignore Big Brother's cameras up on the wall. They become part of the forgotten background of our lives. BUt sousveillance - we find it to be unexpectedly creepy.
If this arrangement applied to all books in the Kindle format, with unlimited one-book-at-a-time availability, I would be on it like scales on lawyers.
That incident was the world's first beatdown of a Glasshole. Silicon Valley was not the first place where this happened.
That's because 'Overrated' means "I disagree" and 'Troll' means "I really disagree."
There's nothing wrong with advocating big government for tasks that only a big government can accomplish, such as defense or multistate water infrastructure. The problem is that there is a mentality out there that insists on centralizing every activity, no matter what, on principle. Your dog craps on the sidewalk, and they will invoke the United Nations.
Pssst - use a VPN!
All countries follow the same rule for taxation of citizens: when you live in another country, you remain a 'visitor', taxed in your home country, for one year. After that, your status switches to being taxed by the host country instead, because that's whose economy you live in and benefit from.
The one country that does not follow this rule is the US. Its citizens are taxed in both the home country and, after one year, in the host country. You can credit the host-country tax against the US tax, but because this means a lot of additional paperwork for both employee and employer, foreign countries have mostly just stopped hiring Americans for overseas jobs. Now that FATCA makes it difficult for such employees to open bank accounts for local, everyday transactions, the situation is worse still.
And hell yes, the average overseas American would take your deal yesterday.