So many of the students at US colleges are already Chinese, so buying some schools out would be a logical next step.
But wouldn't it be wondrously ironic if a Chinese buyout is what it takes for our liberal arts schools to return to their traditional role of passing on the history and culture of Western civilization? It would be acceptable to teach the works of dead white men once more.
Colleges are also going to want to ask themselves: in this era of blisteringly high tuitions, why are so many of them "cash-strapped?"
I have this condition too. Fortunately, I'm a Republican who supports stem cell research. If we can get everyone to support CRISPR as well as stem cell, we should be able to knock off a host of diseases that are gene-related.
Then how is gun crime on the rise in Britain? Oh, wait, because criminals don't obey the law.
It is still extremely rare. Your average Joe the criminal can't get a gun in the UK.
In Europe, it takes terrorists with international connections to get guns and slaughter people. Oh, or highly dedicated nazis who strike while the cops are all on vacation at the same time.
This has always been my suspicion. If you're a three-letter agency and you want to know who is searching for Fedex locations in Texas and farm supply chemicals, DuckDuckGo is where you go.
Remember how popular the Do Not Call list implementation was when it was first implemented? When a technical glitch in the way the legislation was written threatened to delay implementation of the law, Congress took the unusual step of convening on a Sunday, as it did after Pearl Harbor, to make a fix and pass it.
For several years, Do Not Call gave the public blessed relief from junk solicitations - until the robocalls started, a new tech that Do Not Call was unable to address. Since then we have been desperately trying to do something, legally or technically, about robocalls.
If today's decision brings an even bigger flood of robocalls into the homes of Trump's base, it will very quickly no longer be Trump's base.
That well is already tainted, and to accuse people of being alarmist about something that is alarming is just another smoke screen.
When we note something as being alarming, such as carbon building up in Earth's atmosphere, being apocalyptic about the situation is just one possible response. There are many other, more constructive responses. I would prefer any of these.
So Phoenix, as the Uber test city, has registered its first fatality. With no information made public other than it involved a jaywalking pedestrian, we have 250 posts predicting the entire future of the automated car industry. And illegal aliens, for some reason.
I can't wait to see what the all-wise multitude will say once we actually know what happened.
Cow farts are another fake issue from the climate activists. The claim is that since something like 7% of our emitted carbon comes from cattle, that cows are a major contributor to greenhouse warming.
What they are leaving out in this analysis is that cows don't eat coal. The carbon they belch came from the air this year, and goes back into the air this year. So, no net contribution to warming.
"But...but - it's methane, not CO2!" A more powerful greenhouse gas, but also one that breaks down quickly in the environment. You just get last season's CO2 back.
Caifornia will have no choice but to end run around its drought by desalinating city water. Without the massive offtake of 14 million Angelenos, there is plenty of water in the Colorado for inland users. Arizona will gladly supply the nuclear energy that so much desalination will require.
The limiting factor to growth is not sperm availability. A single man easily generates enough sperm to impregnate countless women if distributed evenly.
Only if Nerds manage to reverse population growth.
What population growth? What we keep fearing would be exponential growth whenever people feel the need to replace a population lost to war always turns into an S-curve, flattening out with industrial prosperity. The US is at zero native growth. So is Europe, and so are the wealthy parts of Asia, most recently China.
High population growth persists in places where people are too poor to feed themselves, which is a self-limiting problem. When Western liberal activists convinced Zambia to reject food aid because GMOs, they sentenced Zambians to death. If that country can turn against the activists and go industrial, it will also be able to feed itself and limit its population.
EVs eliminate the need to change millions of engines every time one energy technology succeeds another. Electricity is the currency in which energy is denominated.
The Venus scenario would require more carbon than we have to burn, forminb an atmosphere that is as thick as our ocean depths: https://wattsupwiththat.com/20...
The reason for much "denialism" on climate is not because all the skeptics are oil investors. After all, investors trade, switching at any given time to whatever technologies are doing well. It's because climate activists insist that their favored brand of apocalyptic nonsense is the only response to the problem.
Just like all the other environmental problems we have ever faced: plague, urban smoke, deforestation, overpopulation, resource depletion, unsustainable farm practices - the science that is detecting climate change is the science that will show us how to fix it, and without any need to destroy civilization.
When God looks down and sees that the men with the little dimply white balls are still out in the open playing that stupid game, He sends more strikes. But they keep doing it, day after day.
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So many of the students at US colleges are already Chinese, so buying some schools out would be a logical next step.
But wouldn't it be wondrously ironic if a Chinese buyout is what it takes for our liberal arts schools to return to their traditional role of passing on the history and culture of Western civilization? It would be acceptable to teach the works of dead white men once more.
Colleges are also going to want to ask themselves: in this era of blisteringly high tuitions, why are so many of them "cash-strapped?"
I can still remember a brand new hand-cranked telephone being installed in the family farmhouse in Ontario, 1957.
Of course they would, because the pro-life set are the stupidist of the stupid.
Then you haven't met any No GMO activists.
I have this condition too. Fortunately, I'm a Republican who supports stem cell research. If we can get everyone to support CRISPR as well as stem cell, we should be able to knock off a host of diseases that are gene-related.
Then how is gun crime on the rise in Britain? Oh, wait, because criminals don't obey the law.
It is still extremely rare. Your average Joe the criminal can't get a gun in the UK.
In Europe, it takes terrorists with international connections to get guns and slaughter people. Oh, or highly dedicated nazis who strike while the cops are all on vacation at the same time.
Your approach mostly works on cellular, but the Trump base has landlines.
Might explain why the fucking seppos are so fucking stupid. America, home of the dumbfuck.
So how much lead, and other entertaining substances, are you people getting from burning coal?
Duck Duck Go is an obvious honeypot.
This has always been my suspicion. If you're a three-letter agency and you want to know who is searching for Fedex locations in Texas and farm supply chemicals, DuckDuckGo is where you go.
Someone kill this fucking asshole.
Remember how popular the Do Not Call list implementation was when it was first implemented? When a technical glitch in the way the legislation was written threatened to delay implementation of the law, Congress took the unusual step of convening on a Sunday, as it did after Pearl Harbor, to make a fix and pass it.
For several years, Do Not Call gave the public blessed relief from junk solicitations - until the robocalls started, a new tech that Do Not Call was unable to address. Since then we have been desperately trying to do something, legally or technically, about robocalls.
If today's decision brings an even bigger flood of robocalls into the homes of Trump's base, it will very quickly no longer be Trump's base.
Have the authority to do this? Like Obama the executive branch keeps getting more and more audacious with these executive orders.
In particular, does this mean that we can no longer gas up at Citgo stations?
That well is already tainted, and to accuse people of being alarmist about something that is alarming is just another smoke screen.
When we note something as being alarming, such as carbon building up in Earth's atmosphere, being apocalyptic about the situation is just one possible response. There are many other, more constructive responses. I would prefer any of these.
So Phoenix, as the Uber test city, has registered its first fatality. With no information made public other than it involved a jaywalking pedestrian, we have 250 posts predicting the entire future of the automated car industry. And illegal aliens, for some reason.
I can't wait to see what the all-wise multitude will say once we actually know what happened.
The issue is that cows fart methane.
Cow farts are another fake issue from the climate activists. The claim is that since something like 7% of our emitted carbon comes from cattle, that cows are a major contributor to greenhouse warming.
What they are leaving out in this analysis is that cows don't eat coal. The carbon they belch came from the air this year, and goes back into the air this year. So, no net contribution to warming.
"But...but - it's methane, not CO2!" A more powerful greenhouse gas, but also one that breaks down quickly in the environment. You just get last season's CO2 back.
Caifornia will have no choice but to end run around its drought by desalinating city water. Without the massive offtake of 14 million Angelenos, there is plenty of water in the Colorado for inland users. Arizona will gladly supply the nuclear energy that so much desalination will require.
The limiting factor to growth is not sperm availability. A single man easily generates enough sperm to impregnate countless women if distributed evenly.
Talk about this not being news for nerds...
This was Pol Pot's solution. Look how successful it was!
Nerds will save the world
Only if Nerds manage to reverse population growth.
What population growth? What we keep fearing would be exponential growth whenever people feel the need to replace a population lost to war always turns into an S-curve, flattening out with industrial prosperity. The US is at zero native growth. So is Europe, and so are the wealthy parts of Asia, most recently China.
High population growth persists in places where people are too poor to feed themselves, which is a self-limiting problem. When Western liberal activists convinced Zambia to reject food aid because GMOs, they sentenced Zambians to death. If that country can turn against the activists and go industrial, it will also be able to feed itself and limit its population.
EVs eliminate the need to change millions of engines every time one energy technology succeeds another. Electricity is the currency in which energy is denominated.
The Venus scenario would require more carbon than we have to burn, forminb an atmosphere that is as thick as our ocean depths:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/20...
The reason for much "denialism" on climate is not because all the skeptics are oil investors. After all, investors trade, switching at any given time to whatever technologies are doing well. It's because climate activists insist that their favored brand of apocalyptic nonsense is the only response to the problem.
Just like all the other environmental problems we have ever faced: plague, urban smoke, deforestation, overpopulation, resource depletion, unsustainable farm practices - the science that is detecting climate change is the science that will show us how to fix it, and without any need to destroy civilization.
Right here in this forum, not right here in this thread.
When God looks down and sees that the men with the little dimply white balls are still out in the open playing that stupid game, He sends more strikes. But they keep doing it, day after day.
Imagine Slashdot as a Beowulf cluster of pedantic nitpickers!
At least we need single drive train hybrids to ease us through the transition to pure electric. Why are today's hybrids so overcomplicated?
Subaru still exists?
Here in northern Arizona, Subaru has most of the SUVs that aren't Toyotas.