Personally, I have been advocating phasing out coal in favor of nuclear for over 40 years. The vast majority of people who claim to be oh so very very concerned about CO2, on the other hand, have been among those obstructing nuclear for over 40 years. Warming is their chickens coming home to roost. Unfortunately, those chickens are crapping all over those of us who do not deny arithmetic, too.
"I am not so much pro-nuclear as I am pro-arithmetic." -- Stuart Brand
Scalia had a generally consistent philosophy which could predict most decisions:
Needs and rights of powerful private sector companies outweigh the needs and rights of government which outweigh the needs and rights of individual citizens.
How does your hypothesis explain his dissent in the infamous Kelo decision?
Well, in an online forum I participate in, the whole "evolution" thing comes up occasionally. (It's discouraged, because it always results in flame wars, but it still pops up from time to time.)
One participant has a pretty through understanding of evolutionary theory, and he often takes apart bad Creationist arguments in a manner worthy of Richard Dawkins himself. However, this person is also, himself, a Creationist of the 4004 BC variety. He just won't put up with bad arguments for his belief.
Personally, the whole 4004 BC thing gives me hives, but it also seems pretty clear that we don't know everything about how life began.
Most people don't even know the difference between evolution and natural selection. When asked what that difference is, many will insist it's the same thing. Most people also equate evolution with constant improvement, even though that's not really what it is.
And even more people don't know the difference between evolution and abiogenesis.
The only real option to meet the 2 degree goal is to get all countries together and to not let the stuff out of the earth. Otherwise someone somewhere burns it, whoever it is
Well, at some point, petroleum's value as a chemical feed stock exceeds its value as a fuel. Then, you're not burning it. Petroleum is used for a whole lot of things besides just burning.
I suspect the "An idle immune system is the Devil's workshop" theory. All this crazy-clean germicidal-everything living in a Lysol bubble has left our immune systems with nothing to do but cultivate paranoia.
For any colossally stupid and completely insane position, somewhere, you'll find someone who really believes it. This is, perhaps, the General Theory of Rule 36. ("There's porn about it" being the Special Theory....)
I've been thinking about running my own in-home PBX to deal with this, too.
Whitelisted numbers, friends, family, and businesses I want to talk to: Rings right through.
Numbers not on the whitelist: straight to voicemail, my phone does not ring, not even once. The voicemail says, "Hello?" a few times to see if anyone answers, then says "This is a recording, please leave a message" in order to (presumably) get the robo-calls routed to an actual agent.
Numbers on the blacklist: Forwarded to Lenny, or something very special I program myself. (I don't like that "Lenny" says "Yeah" and similar positive type words from time to time; those crooks might claim that was an agreement to get a subscription to The Wisdum of L. Ron Hubbard crammed onto my phone bill.) My ideal would be to sound perfectly normal, do some interpretation of what they're saying to actually address things they say, and do a "curious about the product but not agreeing to anything" act for as long as they stay on the phone.
On the top of the blacklist are those evil <redacted> who call six times simultaneously, so the phone rings a whole lot longer than normal before going to voicemail, and the Caller-ID announces their name six times. Bastards. This is the sort of thing that makes me yearn for the "Scanners" power to reach down the phone line telekinetically and set their computer on fire.
Bonus, custom voicemail messages for appropriate callers, white/non/blacklisted. Like "Hi, Mom, we're not home, call my cell."
Case in point: Colin Ferguson, the LIRR mass murderer, who stated out-right that his purpose was to kill as many whites and Asians as possible. "Not a hate crime", according to the powers that decree such things.
The gun thing annoys me, but hey, Facebook is a private company. What I really want to be banned off of Facebook is any mention of any entity with any connection, no matter how tenuous, with anyone associated with the Kardumassians.
Why doesn't someone pull up the list of all Oscar winners and nominees for the past 20 years, and do an analysis on that? (Actually, I read an article where someone did, and reported that the percentage of People of Color was... pretty much in line with percentage of population. I haven't checked their numbers independently, though.)
I don't block ads. I don't have a problem with ads as such. I do block scripts unless I feel the domain has some degree of trustworthiness. No ad servers have any degree of trustworthiness whatsoever.
Sites like forbes.com, which will not show you anything but their "Give us carte blanche to ream you with malware laden ads or you can't see our domain" splash page can die in a fire for all I care. I'm not doing it.
And onions are deadly to dogs! Why do you hate America, onion eaters???
And Xylitol is even worse. Blood sugar crash and death if dogs eat it, and not much of it at that. But there at Whole Foods, a big bag of the "Wonderful all natural non-sugar sweetener", pure xylitol, and not a word on the bag about how Fido is going to die horribly if he gets ahold of any of it.
The Greens prefer fusion because it does not exist. Yet. If/when fusion does exist, it will get the full attention of the usual omni-obstructionists.
They're opposed to anything that produces energy on a scale sufficient to power industrial civilization. That's the issue. Energy that really is cheap, clean, and abundant? "Nothing short of a disaster" (Amory Lovins) "Like giving a machine gun to a retarded child" (Paul Ehrlich)
I mean, by the time you've gotten your infrared reflector photonic crystal tungsten ribbon rectangular emitter Rube Goldberg thing perfected, it's bound to be a lot more expensive than current incandescent bulbs, and probably more expensive than LED bulbs. Plus, it is still working by getting a thin piece of metal hot enough to glow brightly. That inevitably means limited lifespan.
Personally, I buy cheap LED bulbs when I see them on sale, and I haven't had one fail yet. Other than the older silicone-rubber-over-glass Cree bulb which I dropped. It still works fine, actually, but with electrically 'hot' bits exposed, I'm not running it.
I don't know from spectrum, but I got a lot of pushback on installing CFLs. This has not been an issue with the LEDs I've gotten; they seem to have a good WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor) whatever their "spectrum" might be.
The big problem with LEDs might turn out to be they just don't die. Once everyone has replaced every bulb with an LED, who's going to be buying bulbs?
What I'm wanting to see is more fixtures that are built with LEDs, rather than assuming people are going to have to replace bulbs constantly.
For omni-obstructionists who kvetch about the safety of glassified waste stored at Yucca Mountain, or those who might be swayed by such kevetching, go to Google Earth, search for "Sedan Crater", and scan south. *THAT* is what's already there. Nuke crater after nuke crater, with no containment whatsoever other than it happens to be underground. Mostly.
No one has ever given anything even close to vaguely resembling a cogent argument as to how glassified waste could be anywhere in the same galaxy as much of a hazard as what's already there.
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Personally, I have been advocating phasing out coal in favor of nuclear for over 40 years. The vast majority of people who claim to be oh so very very concerned about CO2, on the other hand, have been among those obstructing nuclear for over 40 years. Warming is their chickens coming home to roost. Unfortunately, those chickens are crapping all over those of us who do not deny arithmetic, too.
"I am not so much pro-nuclear as I am pro-arithmetic." -- Stuart Brand
Scalia had a generally consistent philosophy which could predict most decisions: Needs and rights of powerful private sector companies outweigh the needs and rights of government which outweigh the needs and rights of individual citizens.
How does your hypothesis explain his dissent in the infamous Kelo decision?
Well, in an online forum I participate in, the whole "evolution" thing comes up occasionally. (It's discouraged, because it always results in flame wars, but it still pops up from time to time.)
One participant has a pretty through understanding of evolutionary theory, and he often takes apart bad Creationist arguments in a manner worthy of Richard Dawkins himself. However, this person is also, himself, a Creationist of the 4004 BC variety. He just won't put up with bad arguments for his belief.
Personally, the whole 4004 BC thing gives me hives, but it also seems pretty clear that we don't know everything about how life began.
Most people don't even know the difference between evolution and natural selection. When asked what that difference is, many will insist it's the same thing. Most people also equate evolution with constant improvement, even though that's not really what it is.
And even more people don't know the difference between evolution and abiogenesis.
The only real option to meet the 2 degree goal is to get all countries together and to not let the stuff out of the earth. Otherwise someone somewhere burns it, whoever it is
Well, at some point, petroleum's value as a chemical feed stock exceeds its value as a fuel. Then, you're not burning it. Petroleum is used for a whole lot of things besides just burning.
I suspect the "An idle immune system is the Devil's workshop" theory. All this crazy-clean germicidal-everything living in a Lysol bubble has left our immune systems with nothing to do but cultivate paranoia.
words fail...
Oh, I didn't think for a moment that you were agreeing with that idiot you posted the link to.
For any colossally stupid and completely insane position, somewhere, you'll find someone who really believes it. This is, perhaps, the General Theory of Rule 36. ("There's porn about it" being the Special Theory....)
I was thinking "Commitee of Public Safety". Complete with Mme LeFarge shrieking "OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!"
I've been thinking about running my own in-home PBX to deal with this, too.
Whitelisted numbers, friends, family, and businesses I want to talk to: Rings right through.
Numbers not on the whitelist: straight to voicemail, my phone does not ring, not even once. The voicemail says, "Hello?" a few times to see if anyone answers, then says "This is a recording, please leave a message" in order to (presumably) get the robo-calls routed to an actual agent.
Numbers on the blacklist: Forwarded to Lenny, or something very special I program myself. (I don't like that "Lenny" says "Yeah" and similar positive type words from time to time; those crooks might claim that was an agreement to get a subscription to The Wisdum of L. Ron Hubbard crammed onto my phone bill.) My ideal would be to sound perfectly normal, do some interpretation of what they're saying to actually address things they say, and do a "curious about the product but not agreeing to anything" act for as long as they stay on the phone.
On the top of the blacklist are those evil <redacted> who call six times simultaneously, so the phone rings a whole lot longer than normal before going to voicemail, and the Caller-ID announces their name six times. Bastards. This is the sort of thing that makes me yearn for the "Scanners" power to reach down the phone line telekinetically and set their computer on fire.
Bonus, custom voicemail messages for appropriate callers, white/non/blacklisted. Like "Hi, Mom, we're not home, call my cell."
I told the "Microsoft Tech Support" crook "But I don't have a computer."
That apparently wasn't in his script; it took a while for that to register.
My wife was about to bust up laughing. After I hung up, she said "You lied!".
I said "No, I didn't. I don't have *a* computer. I have *a bunch of* computers.
Case in point: Colin Ferguson, the LIRR mass murderer, who stated out-right that his purpose was to kill as many whites and Asians as possible. "Not a hate crime", according to the powers that decree such things.
GIven the domain name, I suspect goatse. Not clicking...
The gun thing annoys me, but hey, Facebook is a private company. What I really want to be banned off of Facebook is any mention of any entity with any connection, no matter how tenuous, with anyone associated with the Kardumassians.
No, the worst format of the 20th century was 8-Track. Truly hideous.
And sow the rubble with salt.
Blipverts. High-speed advertisements so designed to get the advertiser's message embedded in your brain before you can grab the remote.
Ignore those silly rumors about it causing some susceptible people to explode...
Why doesn't someone pull up the list of all Oscar winners and nominees for the past 20 years, and do an analysis on that? (Actually, I read an article where someone did, and reported that the percentage of People of Color was ... pretty much in line with percentage of population. I haven't checked their numbers independently, though.)
I don't block ads. I don't have a problem with ads as such. I do block scripts unless I feel the domain has some degree of trustworthiness. No ad servers have any degree of trustworthiness whatsoever.
Sites like forbes.com, which will not show you anything but their "Give us carte blanche to ream you with malware laden ads or you can't see our domain" splash page can die in a fire for all I care. I'm not doing it.
And onions are deadly to dogs! Why do you hate America, onion eaters???
And Xylitol is even worse. Blood sugar crash and death if dogs eat it, and not much of it at that. But there at Whole Foods, a big bag of the "Wonderful all natural non-sugar sweetener", pure xylitol, and not a word on the bag about how Fido is going to die horribly if he gets ahold of any of it.
The Greens prefer fusion because it does not exist. Yet. If/when fusion does exist, it will get the full attention of the usual omni-obstructionists.
They're opposed to anything that produces energy on a scale sufficient to power industrial civilization. That's the issue. Energy that really is cheap, clean, and abundant? "Nothing short of a disaster" (Amory Lovins) "Like giving a machine gun to a retarded child" (Paul Ehrlich)
Oh noes, they're contaminating our precious bodily fluids with deadly dihydrogen monoxide!
I mean, by the time you've gotten your infrared reflector photonic crystal tungsten ribbon rectangular emitter Rube Goldberg thing perfected, it's bound to be a lot more expensive than current incandescent bulbs, and probably more expensive than LED bulbs. Plus, it is still working by getting a thin piece of metal hot enough to glow brightly. That inevitably means limited lifespan.
Personally, I buy cheap LED bulbs when I see them on sale, and I haven't had one fail yet. Other than the older silicone-rubber-over-glass Cree bulb which I dropped. It still works fine, actually, but with electrically 'hot' bits exposed, I'm not running it.
I don't know from spectrum, but I got a lot of pushback on installing CFLs. This has not been an issue with the LEDs I've gotten; they seem to have a good WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor) whatever their "spectrum" might be.
The big problem with LEDs might turn out to be they just don't die. Once everyone has replaced every bulb with an LED, who's going to be buying bulbs?
What I'm wanting to see is more fixtures that are built with LEDs, rather than assuming people are going to have to replace bulbs constantly.
For omni-obstructionists who kvetch about the safety of glassified waste stored at Yucca Mountain, or those who might be swayed by such kevetching, go to Google Earth, search for "Sedan Crater", and scan south. *THAT* is what's already there. Nuke crater after nuke crater, with no containment whatsoever other than it happens to be underground. Mostly.
No one has ever given anything even close to vaguely resembling a cogent argument as to how glassified waste could be anywhere in the same galaxy as much of a hazard as what's already there.