A republic (representatives isolating the voters from the issues) is not a democracy and is intended to keep power out of the hands of the majority. When voting took 2 weeks just to count (and there is no reason other than fear of criminality for not using internet voting) there MAY have been an excuse There is no such excuse. Let us each vote on every expenditure and hear every classified briefing. NO MORE SECRET LAWS! Time to obliterate states. Time for the PEOPLE to control the state just as Jefferson wanted. If you think "just powers from the consent of the governed" is anything but democracy, you do indeed think like all the other elites (How can peasants know what is good for them say the kings)
Provides an EXCESS of what Capitalists have limited in order to get a profitable price Germany, France, China, Sweden, even the Brits seem to have the sense to keep Capitalists on a short leash in order to serve the needs of the many ahead of the privileges of the few.
If gerrymandering means 1 man = 1 1/80 votes, but only in Republican (or Democratic) districts, the stability of the American system is over and done, with the minority ruling the majority. That whole "Just powers from the consent of the governed" fails the test of Gerrymandering. thus the need for direct democracy, now that we have the necessary technology. For one thing, the buying of elections would end For another, respect for law when the MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE decide what is law will go well up There are people like Glenn Beck who call Democracy " Two wolves and a sheep holding a vote on what is for dinner" but that is what we have in an UNrepresentative Republic. In a Republic, it only takes 31% minority to block the lawful and Constitutional will of the majority.
WRONG!! Every STATE elects Senators from the ENTIRE STATE. Yes, Stupid Git is indeed the word And when Republicans gained control in 2010 of 13 more states, they re-re-redistricted (including lawsuits to the Supreme Court that said 5-4 that this was legal to pass power to the "new" rulers) to give themselves a 1.4 million vote effective advantage. That's why we need direct democracy, this 'republic' is no longer representative!
Haber Process. Strip H2 from CH4. Energy consumed. Compress with NH2 in Rayne Nickel Bed at 15 atm.. Energy consumed Cool to liquid at -80F Energy Consumed Crack with reaction Energy Consumed Burn in ICE Energy wasted. Anyone done the power / transmission / conversion losses for electrics? Like as in roadbed broadcast power? Solves the problem with maximum efficiency.
"Debt never gets paid off"---do tell that to Reagan who tripled the Debt, Bush who doubled that and Bush who doubled THAT all in time of peace. If Obama spent at the same RATE as Bush we'd already be 24 trillion in the hole...but we're not. The fact is, too LITTLE Socialism is why our schools suck, our kids won't provide a secure national future and why we have to import brains via the H1-B.
To fight for it you need Capital thanks to barriers to entry created by...drum roll please, the Capitalists who control Capital. Wow! PERPETUAL MOTION DOWNWARD for the slaves, what a GREAT idea!! Till the Tumbrills and heads roll that is.
They have no authority to issue perjury or contempt warrants. Since Congress is OVER represented by the minority party that got 1.8 million less votes for the House in 2012, it follows that the representitives of the people did not vote for contempt.
It amazes me you think that autoencryption with only local password storage is not the norm at User Data Sensitive Sites like IRS and HEW. I agree. You know fuck all about security.
What we do know is that IRS and HEW communications are encrypted at every point, even internally. A lost password file control like "Keypass" and the entire server storage chain is permanently gibberish. For security purposes, those files are NEVER backed up by central servers (Key-in-Lock weakness) and so, once crashed....gone
All we need are a current baseline comparing current tree-rings to precipitation / temperature for more than a hundred years (which we have) and then we only need look at local fossilized remains to backtrack. Like I said, good all the way back to 50K BCE.
Reading up and down this thread, precisely as I might have anticipated, comes the shocking news that either there is a worldwide conspiracy of climatologists eager to get their $400 / year grants to study tree-ring O-14 ratios while passing up the Nobel Prize for proving 75 years of Climatology is a hoax OR there are a large number of otherwise capable brains here in Slashdot land who will NEVER accept the disaster of cheap fossil fuels until they themselves succumb to heat stroke. Given human nature, and particularly the nature of psuedo-liberalism, I'm willing to place my faith in the 'conspirators' who point out that our children, not our grandchildren, are going to starve sometimes thanks to fossil fuel burning.
So, let me get this straight. The observation of tree rings over the last 50 years, when we have global IR temperature readings along with reliable precipitation does NOT co-relate with tree ring / climate 50,000 years ago (assuming fossilized wood here)? Talking about pushing it!
Read the polls. Republicans are polling 1/2 what Democrats are polling. It looks much more likely that the Senate will remain in Democratic hands. The house MAY increase Republican representation, but it is not very likely says 531 and Gallup and NORC and Quinnepac. Meanwhile, "Money is speech" is Scalia's line. No other Justice would sign that concurrence. As for Cantor, he ran to the right, but his base ran to the outhouse Term limits worked so well for Republicans in California...not. I can indeed infringe on your 'right' to silence 99% with the 1% owning all the airwaves. Old law long established. Sorry, but the Koch brothers cannot "speak" with money so as to silence meaningful opposition. The Supreme Court long ago ruled that the right to speak MUST include the right to be heard. The Koch Brother's right to swing their billion dollar fist ends at my nose...and all the rest of the American people. If the Kochs want to stand on a soapbox and shout, it is their right. If they want to buy the media so ONLY their shout is heard, that is not protected.
Actually, I am arguing with Antonin Scalia who ALONE has made the claim that money is speech. I agree. Until he dies or resigns, he stands as a barrier to the righ of free speech, which is of course the same thing as the right to be heard (already established in 1836). With any good luck Obama will be able to appoint a replacement with a shred of integrity (Scalia refused to recuse himself from Bush v. Gore while his wife and sons took 138,000 in pay from Bush while Thomas immediate family took a cool million) who will respect the right of EQUAL speech and ban all money from politics entirely.
But don't hold your breath that the VRWC will allow the confirmation of any 'radical' jurist who dares question "Money is speech" Scalia.
Foxconn still has armed guards and guard towers and the factories are the dorms. Where did you see this in an enlightened Employer-employee relationship? Is Foxconn 'cooking the books' about mental health? who cares? Apple doesn't.
Freedom of speech only exists under conditions of EQUALITY OF SPEECH, that is, when Koch buys the airtime, there is ONLY ONE VOICE and that, ladies and gentlemen, is why Scalia is wrong and money is NOT speech. As I pointed out, the teagaggers are not a grass roots, they are astroturf, organ, bought and paid for.
the polling at Gallup, NORC, WSJ all agree, republicans are in VERY bad shape for 2014, with Democrats approved by 23% to Republicans 12%, nearly a 2:1 advantage. See the actual polls by actual polisters on www.pollingreport.com
Get ready for the real, your party's Obstructionism and Government Shutdowns are coming home to eat your chickens.
......They can also forge you a $150 chef's knife out of the finest steel, if you want.
True. They will also doctor cat food with plastic and add zinc to stretch out the titanium you demanded for dental appliances How do we know this? Because SOME of the guilty were SHOT for damaging China's manufacturing...once U.S. Regulators did all the work, that is. The Chinese Capitalist state is not interested in anything but profit, because, you know, they are CAPITALISTS with their own pet government
Buyers will not demand cheaper, more easily repaired body parts.
Today's cars are designed to crumple in a impact.....
And fiberglass certainly is used in collapsible structures as well, likewise carbon fiber. Give up a 30 year car (by dint of regulation) and even the 1% will keep a car for decades. There will be a big market in aftermarket bodies to disguise the fact though.
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A republic (representatives isolating the voters from the issues) is not a democracy and is intended to keep power out of the hands of the majority.
When voting took 2 weeks just to count (and there is no reason other than fear of criminality for not using internet voting) there MAY have been an excuse
There is no such excuse.
Let us each vote on every expenditure and hear every classified briefing. NO MORE SECRET LAWS!
Time to obliterate states. Time for the PEOPLE to control the state just as Jefferson wanted.
If you think "just powers from the consent of the governed" is anything but democracy, you do indeed think like all the other elites (How can peasants know what is good for them say the kings)
Provides an EXCESS of what Capitalists have limited in order to get a profitable price
Germany, France, China, Sweden, even the Brits seem to have the sense to keep Capitalists on a short leash in order to serve the needs of the many ahead of the privileges of the few.
If gerrymandering means 1 man = 1 1/80 votes, but only in Republican (or Democratic) districts, the stability of the American system is over and done, with the minority ruling the majority.
That whole "Just powers from the consent of the governed" fails the test of Gerrymandering.
thus the need for direct democracy, now that we have the necessary technology.
For one thing, the buying of elections would end
For another, respect for law when the MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE decide what is law will go well up
There are people like Glenn Beck who call Democracy " Two wolves and a sheep holding a vote on what is for dinner" but that is what we have in an UNrepresentative Republic.
In a Republic, it only takes 31% minority to block the lawful and Constitutional will of the majority.
WRONG!! Every STATE elects Senators from the ENTIRE STATE.
Yes, Stupid Git is indeed the word
And when Republicans gained control in 2010 of 13 more states, they re-re-redistricted (including lawsuits to the Supreme Court that said 5-4 that this was legal to pass power to the "new" rulers) to give themselves a 1.4 million vote effective advantage.
That's why we need direct democracy, this 'republic' is no longer representative!
Haber Process. Strip H2 from CH4.
Energy consumed.
Compress with NH2 in Rayne Nickel Bed at 15 atm..
Energy consumed
Cool to liquid at -80F
Energy Consumed
Crack with reaction
Energy Consumed
Burn in ICE
Energy wasted.
Anyone done the power / transmission / conversion losses for electrics?
Like as in roadbed broadcast power?
Solves the problem with maximum efficiency.
... anhydrous ammonia is flammable; why not just burn the ammonia?
NOx.
It's called "Gerrymandering" and the Republican party used control over district representation to produce a 'win' of more districts while losing the election.
By at least 1.4 million votes
Actual News Outlet report on the Gerrymandered Minority Government Of The House
"Debt never gets paid off"---do tell that to Reagan who tripled the Debt, Bush who doubled that and Bush who doubled THAT all in time of peace.
If Obama spent at the same RATE as Bush we'd already be 24 trillion in the hole...but we're not.
The fact is, too LITTLE Socialism is why our schools suck, our kids won't provide a secure national future and why we have to import brains via the H1-B.
To fight for it you need Capital thanks to barriers to entry created by...drum roll please, the Capitalists who control Capital.
Wow!
PERPETUAL MOTION DOWNWARD for the slaves, what a GREAT idea!!
Till the Tumbrills and heads roll that is.
...Maybe it's because the capitalists own the media... Heck, I don't know.
Yes you do.
This should be rated informative at least.
They have no authority to issue perjury or contempt warrants. Since Congress is OVER represented by the minority party that got 1.8 million less votes for the House in 2012, it follows that the representitives of the people did not vote for contempt.
It amazes me you think that autoencryption with only local password storage is not the norm at User Data Sensitive Sites like IRS and HEW.
I agree. You know fuck all about security.
Because it was sent to an UNencrypted receiver.
UHD (because you are so backward)
What we do know is that IRS and HEW communications are encrypted at every point, even internally. A lost password file control like "Keypass" and the entire server storage chain is permanently gibberish.
For security purposes, those files are NEVER backed up by central servers (Key-in-Lock weakness) and so, once crashed....gone
All we need are a current baseline comparing current tree-rings to precipitation / temperature for more than a hundred years (which we have) and then we only need look at local fossilized remains to backtrack.
Like I said, good all the way back to 50K BCE.
Reading up and down this thread, precisely as I might have anticipated, comes the shocking news that either there is a worldwide conspiracy of climatologists eager to get their $400 / year grants to study tree-ring O-14 ratios while passing up the Nobel Prize for proving 75 years of Climatology is a hoax OR there are a large number of otherwise capable brains here in Slashdot land who will NEVER accept the disaster of cheap fossil fuels until they themselves succumb to heat stroke.
Given human nature, and particularly the nature of psuedo-liberalism, I'm willing to place my faith in the 'conspirators' who point out that our children, not our grandchildren, are going to starve sometimes thanks to fossil fuel burning.
So, let me get this straight. The observation of tree rings over the last 50 years, when we have global IR temperature readings along with reliable precipitation does NOT co-relate with tree ring / climate 50,000 years ago (assuming fossilized wood here)?
Talking about pushing it!
Read the polls. Republicans are polling 1/2 what Democrats are polling. It looks much more likely that the Senate will remain in Democratic hands. The house MAY increase Republican representation, but it is not very likely says 531 and Gallup and NORC and Quinnepac.
Meanwhile, "Money is speech" is Scalia's line. No other Justice would sign that concurrence.
As for Cantor, he ran to the right, but his base ran to the outhouse
Term limits worked so well for Republicans in California...not.
I can indeed infringe on your 'right' to silence 99% with the 1% owning all the airwaves. Old law long established.
Sorry, but the Koch brothers cannot "speak" with money so as to silence meaningful opposition.
The Supreme Court long ago ruled that the right to speak MUST include the right to be heard.
The Koch Brother's right to swing their billion dollar fist ends at my nose...and all the rest of the American people.
If the Kochs want to stand on a soapbox and shout, it is their right.
If they want to buy the media so ONLY their shout is heard, that is not protected.
Actually, I am arguing with Antonin Scalia who ALONE has made the claim that money is speech. I agree. Until he dies or resigns, he stands as a barrier to the righ of free speech, which is of course the same thing as the right to be heard (already established in 1836). With any good luck Obama will be able to appoint a replacement with a shred of integrity (Scalia refused to recuse himself from Bush v. Gore while his wife and sons took 138,000 in pay from Bush while Thomas immediate family took a cool million) who will respect the right of EQUAL speech and ban all money from politics entirely.
But don't hold your breath that the VRWC will allow the confirmation of any 'radical' jurist who dares question "Money is speech" Scalia.
Foxconn still has armed guards and guard towers and the factories are the dorms.
Where did you see this in an enlightened Employer-employee relationship?
Is Foxconn 'cooking the books' about mental health?
who cares? Apple doesn't.
Freedom of speech only exists under conditions of EQUALITY OF SPEECH, that is, when Koch buys the airtime, there is ONLY ONE VOICE and that, ladies and gentlemen, is why Scalia is wrong and money is NOT speech.
As I pointed out, the teagaggers are not a grass roots, they are astroturf, organ, bought and paid for.
the polling at Gallup, NORC, WSJ all agree, republicans are in VERY bad shape for 2014, with Democrats approved by 23% to Republicans 12%, nearly a 2:1 advantage. See the actual polls by actual polisters on www.pollingreport.com
Get ready for the real, your party's Obstructionism and Government Shutdowns are coming home to eat your chickens.
......They can also forge you a $150 chef's knife out of the finest steel, if you want.
True.
They will also doctor cat food with plastic and add zinc to stretch out the titanium you demanded for dental appliances
How do we know this? Because SOME of the guilty were SHOT for damaging China's manufacturing...once U.S. Regulators did all the work, that is.
The Chinese Capitalist state is not interested in anything but profit, because, you know, they are CAPITALISTS with their own pet government
Hardly.
The average car "costs" 14,000 pounds of CO2 to make, ...
Can you cite your source?
My information may be out of date.
Buyers will not demand cheaper, more easily repaired body parts.
Today's cars are designed to crumple in a impact.....
And fiberglass certainly is used in collapsible structures as well, likewise carbon fiber.
Give up a 30 year car (by dint of regulation) and even the 1% will keep a car for decades.
There will be a big market in aftermarket bodies to disguise the fact though.