... where you can't effectively fight emotive but nonsensical arguments with facts - witness the recent Brexit vote, all the Leave arguments were basically lies - but people still believed them, because they'd been convinced that they were "victims" (always a good populist tactic that).
You can have all the facts and business and economic experts you like, all saying "Trump would be a disaster" (and I have no doubt that Trump with his I'm-so-smart egocentricity would be a disaster), but the people who are lured by simplistic nonsense like building walls and excluding Muslims won't listen to "elites".
Calling him out as a fraudster (Trump University) or as an aggressively unreliable business partner (look for any number of interview on Youtube with poor guys that won a contract to design or carpet or wire up one of his property ventures and got screwed badly) probably has broader relevance, because there are a lot of small business owners and people who have been ripped off out there that might relate better.
Murdoch has been seriously wounded in the UK, and cannot now command political power in the way that he previously enjoyed.
So now, despite not actually being Australian any more (he gave up his citizenship to become a US citizen), Australia is pretty much the only place left where he wields significant power, due to News Corp's ownership of the majority of the commercial media in this small market. So now Murdoch has crowned his victory (deposing a decent government whose main flaw was a megalomanical ex-leader after a 3 year smear campaign) by protecting News Corp's cable TV interests as well.
It was always too good to be true - a government program that would really empower people - in an age of neo-liberal so-called free market economics (what we really have is subsidies for corporates and plutocrats - not a "free market"). Once again, the wowsers have won, and Australia can go on with being the backwater dirt factory it has been told it should be.
One thing that many who believe that climate change is a "scam" or a "conspiracy" have in common is a political outlook that says that lefties, socialists, hippies, greenies etc. are just plain WRONG about everything, that their entire world view is basically incorrect.
So it really is hard for them to accept that the lefties and the greenies might be RIGHT about something - which seems to lead to ever more bizarre denials.
The corollary of this is that people with this kind of viewpoint tend to believe that climate change is a stalking horse of the left, to de-industrialise the economy, to promote their "business-hating" ideals, etc.
Sometimes it's obvious that you want or need a change. And sometimes it's not.
So when you can't decide about what to do, it's generally a good idea to ask yourself what it is you could be doing where you could make the biggest contribution, help other people the most, and create the most value for *others*.
Once you remove yourself from the centre of the equation, the answer will probably be much clearer.
Liquid fuels could still be used
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...If you use either fuel cells or hybrid motor arrangements to generate your electricity. Our existing transport infrastructure is almost entirely structured around the use of liquid fuels in vehicles, and it makes sense to leverage this to make electric vehicles more widely used.
It would be fairly straightforward to introduce ethanol/methanol liquid refuelling capacity, (gas stations could dedicate one or two bowsers to these fuels, much like they do with deisel (at least here in Europe)
And by using plant derived liquid fuels such as ethanol or methanol which ultiamtely derive their energy content from the sun, we could reduce our dependence on fossil fuels.
Using biomass derived fuels would seem to offer an alternative to all the worrying about batter lifespan and charge time etc.
One trivial but I supect somehow psychologically relevant thing I've noticed about technology is that formats/technologies with names that either compress or acronymise (I'm sure that's not a word, but hey) so that they end with "vowel "e" tend to be very popular. Thus we have:
TV, CD, PC, MP3, LP etc.
So I suggest we refer to the OggVorbis format as OGV ("Oh-Gee-Vee")
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... where you can't effectively fight emotive but nonsensical arguments with facts - witness the recent Brexit vote, all the Leave arguments were basically lies - but people still believed them, because they'd been convinced that they were "victims" (always a good populist tactic that). You can have all the facts and business and economic experts you like, all saying "Trump would be a disaster" (and I have no doubt that Trump with his I'm-so-smart egocentricity would be a disaster), but the people who are lured by simplistic nonsense like building walls and excluding Muslims won't listen to "elites". Calling him out as a fraudster (Trump University) or as an aggressively unreliable business partner (look for any number of interview on Youtube with poor guys that won a contract to design or carpet or wire up one of his property ventures and got screwed badly) probably has broader relevance, because there are a lot of small business owners and people who have been ripped off out there that might relate better.
I for one have never heard of "Rickey's World Famous Restaurant chain" (Australian living in the U.K.) So it can't be *that* world famous...!
Or perhaps Google are selling a Camry at the price of a Camry, and the other guys who've been peddling Model Ts are now having to get competitive!
"Man has never really built a decent chicken" - Kehlog Albran, The Profit
Newer streetlights are usually orange / yellow light, because (as I understand it) our eyes are more sensitive at those wavelengths.
So why are car headlight beams still white? The idea is to see more, so shouldn't they be the same orange / yellow light as streetlamps?
This.
Murdoch has been seriously wounded in the UK, and cannot now command political power in the way that he previously enjoyed.
So now, despite not actually being Australian any more (he gave up his citizenship to become a US citizen), Australia is pretty much the only place left where he wields significant power, due to News Corp's ownership of the majority of the commercial media in this small market. So now Murdoch has crowned his victory (deposing a decent government whose main flaw was a megalomanical ex-leader after a 3 year smear campaign) by protecting News Corp's cable TV interests as well.
It was always too good to be true - a government program that would really empower people - in an age of neo-liberal so-called free market economics (what we really have is subsidies for corporates and plutocrats - not a "free market"). Once again, the wowsers have won, and Australia can go on with being the backwater dirt factory it has been told it should be.
A pox on Murdoch and the Coalition.
One thing that many who believe that climate change is a "scam" or a "conspiracy" have in common is a political outlook that says that lefties, socialists, hippies, greenies etc. are just plain WRONG about everything, that their entire world view is basically incorrect.
So it really is hard for them to accept that the lefties and the greenies might be RIGHT about something - which seems to lead to ever more bizarre denials.
The corollary of this is that people with this kind of viewpoint tend to believe that climate change is a stalking horse of the left, to de-industrialise the economy, to promote their "business-hating" ideals, etc.
Sometimes it's obvious that you want or need a change. And sometimes it's not.
So when you can't decide about what to do, it's generally a good idea to ask yourself what it is you could be doing where you could make the biggest contribution, help other people the most, and create the most value for *others*.
Once you remove yourself from the centre of the equation, the answer will probably be much clearer.
...If you use either fuel cells or hybrid motor arrangements to generate your electricity. Our existing transport infrastructure is almost entirely structured around the use of liquid fuels in vehicles, and it makes sense to leverage this to make electric vehicles more widely used.
It would be fairly straightforward to introduce ethanol/methanol liquid refuelling capacity, (gas stations could dedicate one or two bowsers to these fuels, much like they do with deisel (at least here in Europe)
And by using plant derived liquid fuels such as ethanol or methanol which ultiamtely derive their energy content from the sun, we could reduce our dependence on fossil fuels.
Using biomass derived fuels would seem to offer an alternative to all the worrying about batter lifespan and charge time etc.
One trivial but I supect somehow psychologically relevant thing I've noticed about technology is that formats/technologies with names that either compress or acronymise (I'm sure that's not a word, but hey) so that they end with "vowel "e" tend to be very popular. Thus we have:
TV, CD, PC, MP3, LP etc.
So I suggest we refer to the OggVorbis format as OGV ("Oh-Gee-Vee")
Cheers,
Grunter.