but the point of the hybrid is not just to double the gas mileage today, it's also to uncouple the gasoline from the drive train
Errr, you do realize that all road hybrids today don't do that? Do you know ANYTHING or do you just pull it all out of your butt? Railroad hybrids do that -- but railroad diesel engines have always done that. It's just that they're adding batteries to switchers now.
I wouldn't fix the patent system. I would abolish it. The trouble with the patent system is that when it's time for something to be invented, multiple people invent it at the same time. Inventions don't come from a vacuum. They come from a recognition that a problem experienced by many people needs to be solved. Thus, the major impetus for creating a solution comes from the public who has the problem. So why should somebody own a solution just because they created it, when the solution has just as much to do with the existance of the problem as the existance of the problem-solver?
Or, more succinctly, all solutions are obvious in the context of the problem.
"Insightful"?? Sheesh! A modest fee of like $5 or $10 per year to retain copyright is something a peasant can afford.... or not, in which case he doesn't need us to pretend we care. If the copyright holder doesn't care even that much, then society shouldn't care either.
In a better world than this one, copyright holders would have to pay a fee and register their works. If they can't be bothered, why should we bother pretending that they care?
Trade doesn't work if it's all going one direction, however: we buy tons of stuff from China because it's dirt-cheap, but what do they buy from us? Nothing.
Let me show you how ridiculous your statement is: "Trade doesn't work if it's all going one direction, however: we buy tons of stuff from Wal*Mart because it's dirt-cheap, but what do they buy from us? Nothing."
If you don't like Wal*Mart, substitute in HP, or IBM, or California, or the corner store, or my brother-in-law the butcher.
If you can get somebody to sell you things in exchange for green presidential portraits, why would you care if they never buy anything from you? People accept paid employment for only one purpose: to get money to buy things. If they could get money to buy things, they wouldn't bother working (the intrinsic benefits of work are equally available from unpaid volunteer labor). People export things for only one purpose: to import things.
Never forget that or else you will speak (more) nonsense.
Honest people label estimates with "# (est)" or "approx #", or if the value is bounded, they say "at least #". My point being here that honesty is not the goal. Propaganda is. I dislike Bush as much as the next guy, but I won't lie to bring out the truth about him, if ya know what I mean.
Sorry; if we can't even accurately count the number of people who voted for Bush, how can we accurately (down to the individual person) identify people whose deaths are the result of his roundhouse kicks, er policies? I don't just call bullshit here; I call big stinking pile of bullshit. Error bars... I want to see error bars. I want to know why it's exactly 654,965 and not 654,966, or the 654,955 that I claim.
Chuck Norris doesn't just give you error bars... he makes you enjoy them.
Let me assume that you deny the link between CO2 and other greenhouse gasses as causes of increasing temperatures. Would you be so kind as to propose an alternative theory that explains these phenomenon?
Increased solar radiation. So if that's the cause of global warming, and we've spent trillions in pursuit of lower CO2 levels, and the warming and bad effects happen anyway, and we can't afford to mitigate the warming because we've wasted our money pursing the chimera of lower CO2 levels, and everyone dies, THEN will you apologize?
The trouble with school vouchers... is then you start to argue over what constitutes a school. If public money is paying for it, can it go to a madrassa? Or a Catholic school? Or Joe's School and Lube? Or Russ's "We teach computers... and only computers" school for nerds? And then there's health and safety mandates. Don't want kids to play on monkey bars!!! They'll all die like we did when we played on them!! Don't want kids to eat trans-fats for Gosh's sake! Remember, catsup is a vegetable.
There are *multiple* tarpits here that can't be avoided because of the very nature of public funding.
More than that, the debate is "what to do about it?" Should we pursue Kyoto, which will spend a HUGE sum of money to delay global warming effects by one year? Or should we do something intelligent instead?
That's a bullshit number. Who the hell pulled THAT out of their ass. I've done the research, and Bush killed 654,955 people. Personally. With a roundhouse kick.
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Stupidity should be taxed, too. That way postings like yours would cost you REAL money.
Errr, you do realize that all road hybrids today don't do that? Do you know ANYTHING or do you just pull it all out of your butt? Railroad hybrids do that -- but railroad diesel engines have always done that. It's just that they're adding batteries to switchers now.
It will also restrict our freedom. Freedom is important. That's why I'm on the board of the Open Source Initiative -- to help spread freed software.
Errr, do you realize that the federal government encouraged the use of PCBs?
Okay, so let's compare corporate misdeeds against government misdeeds. How's about we start with the Iraq War?
I wouldn't fix the patent system. I would abolish it. The trouble with the patent system is that when it's time for something to be invented, multiple people invent it at the same time. Inventions don't come from a vacuum. They come from a recognition that a problem experienced by many people needs to be solved. Thus, the major impetus for creating a solution comes from the public who has the problem. So why should somebody own a solution just because they created it, when the solution has just as much to do with the existance of the problem as the existance of the problem-solver?
Or, more succinctly, all solutions are obvious in the context of the problem.
"Insightful"?? Sheesh! A modest fee of like $5 or $10 per year to retain copyright is something a peasant can afford .... or not, in which case he doesn't need us to pretend we care. If the copyright holder doesn't care even that much, then society shouldn't care either.
And then when they stopped paying their yearly fee
In a better world than this one, copyright holders would have to pay a fee and register their works. If they can't be bothered, why should we bother pretending that they care?
http://flickr.com/photos/russnelson/369951380/
and
http://flickr.com/photos/russnelson/369951376
(with links to **Yahoo* photos).
Also the tank farms on the Hudson close to Kingston, NY.7 &t=H
http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=41.92837,-73.96301&z=1
It's not possible for the government to provide you with health care AND protect your privacy at the same time.
Or else worldwide communications have improved to the point where we hear about it every time a butterfly flaps its wings.
To deny that many people disagree with your over-simple thesis is insane.
Whenever somebody says "There's no time for discussion! Everybody has to do what I tell you to do", that trips my bogometer.
Each of my blogs has only 499 users.
But if one of my blogs did indeed gain an extra reader, how would they ever know?
Let me show you how ridiculous your statement is: "Trade doesn't work if it's all going one direction, however: we buy tons of stuff from Wal*Mart because it's dirt-cheap, but what do they buy from us? Nothing."
If you don't like Wal*Mart, substitute in HP, or IBM, or California, or the corner store, or my brother-in-law the butcher.
If you can get somebody to sell you things in exchange for green presidential portraits, why would you care if they never buy anything from you? People accept paid employment for only one purpose: to get money to buy things. If they could get money to buy things, they wouldn't bother working (the intrinsic benefits of work are equally available from unpaid volunteer labor). People export things for only one purpose: to import things.
Never forget that or else you will speak (more) nonsense.
You have a lot to say about spending money for somebody who doesn't know anything about economics.
Honest people label estimates with "# (est)" or "approx #", or if the value is bounded, they say "at least #". My point being here that honesty is not the goal. Propaganda is. I dislike Bush as much as the next guy, but I won't lie to bring out the truth about him, if ya know what I mean.
Sorry; if we can't even accurately count the number of people who voted for Bush, how can we accurately (down to the individual person) identify people whose deaths are the result of his roundhouse kicks, er policies? I don't just call bullshit here; I call big stinking pile of bullshit. Error bars ... I want to see error bars. I want to know why it's exactly 654,965 and not 654,966, or the 654,955 that I claim.
... he makes you enjoy them.
Chuck Norris doesn't just give you error bars
Increased solar radiation. So if that's the cause of global warming, and we've spent trillions in pursuit of lower CO2 levels, and the warming and bad effects happen anyway, and we can't afford to mitigate the warming because we've wasted our money pursing the chimera of lower CO2 levels, and everyone dies, THEN will you apologize?
I didn't think so.
The trouble with school vouchers ... is then you start to argue over what constitutes a school. If public money is paying for it, can it go to a madrassa? Or a Catholic school? Or Joe's School and Lube? Or Russ's "We teach computers ... and only computers" school for nerds? And then there's health and safety mandates. Don't want kids to play on monkey bars!!! They'll all die like we did when we played on them!! Don't want kids to eat trans-fats for Gosh's sake! Remember, catsup is a vegetable.
There are *multiple* tarpits here that can't be avoided because of the very nature of public funding.
More than that, the debate is "what to do about it?" Should we pursue Kyoto, which will spend a HUGE sum of money to delay global warming effects by one year? Or should we do something intelligent instead?
500 comments on this article, and you're saying this with a straight face?
Yes. We'll have to, because people won't think they should do anything about X until X starts to affect them negatively.
That's a bullshit number. Who the hell pulled THAT out of their ass. I've done the research, and Bush killed 654,955 people. Personally. With a roundhouse kick.
No, wait, that was Chuck Norris. Sorry.