The point is that the government got their bite the first time around. What, do you think we should be taxing Christmas presents too? How about taxing the services that a mother provides to her child? Charity recipients should be paying tax on what they receive according to your "logic". No matter how much $ the beast gets, it will figure out how to squander it and then some. If we were spending at the same levels as the Clinton years, we would be running surpluses and paying down the debt. Tax-and-spenders like you will insure that the Mad Max scenario takes place.
Wrong. A death tax by definition is double taxation. The greedy bastards in government have an insatiable lust for the fruits of your labor. And the more they take, the more they spend, and at some point the whole thing is going to implode. We have already run up the largest debt in the history of mankind. The operational debt is almost $18 trillion, unfunded liabilities are over $115 trillion (about $988K per taxpayer). And it is still growing quickly regardless of the lies government feeds us. This debt is simply unsustainable. It is time to starve the beast.
Excess energy is probably radiated out. The hotter something is, the more heat it radiates. Water vapor interacts with pretty much the exact same spectrum as CO2, and is far, far more prevalent. And comparing CO2's efficacy in a biological system to its importance in the weather is pretty lame. Oxygen plays a tiny role in the greenhouse effect but without it no animal life exists. I am confident that AGW will be shown to be the biggest scam in human history.
...but if you run that exact same app on a solid state drive you will, depending on the specific NANDs used and the speed of your code, soon begin to lose bits. As enough of those bits fail, you lose those sectors...
Actually, there is no way to write to specific blocks of an SSD. The controller automatically stripes writes across multiple die, and the wear leveling algorithm makes sure that it is not always the same blocks. SSDs will wear out, no doubt, but not as fast as you think. For some actual data see: http://techreport.com/review/2... Even TLC drives like the Samsung 840EVO 250G got past 600 TB. When you add up all the hours you saved by not waiting for spinning rust to do it's thing, SSDs are a fantastic value.
Nonsense. The NSA is full of lawyers. Nobody has stopped infringements on our privacy. And if you maintain that the Axis was no threat to our freedom, you are suffering from severe mental issues and unfortunately, I cannot help you.
Tell me how a flat tax of 10% on *everyone's* income starting at the first dime is manipulation. Better yet, let's take the entire budget for government at all levels, divide it by the number of adults in the country, and present that bill, payable on demand, the day before primary elections. No taxes on property, fuel, death, profits, income, etc. Then we would figure out how much government we could afford.
Who said it was the job of government to give the poor any advantages? The more you subsidize something, the more of it you get. Fact. Sorry. And a pox on whoever decided that the purpose of the tax code is to manipulate the citizenry.
What a naive and childish point of view. Every single freedom you enjoy, including the freedom to hold childish views, was won by men with rifles. Period.
So tell me about all the dinosaurs and plants that decomposed to create the hydrocarbons on Titan or thousands of feet under the Atlantic. "Warnings" are not really considered facts or evidence.
You are surely aware that nature rarely follows simple linear constructs like you cite. There is an extremely complex non-linear partial differential equation that describes the temperature of a finite volume of atmospheric gas over time.
Variables in the equation include initial conditions, radiation from the sun, the effect of cloud cover, humidity, the magnetic field of the earth, distance from the poles, heat constants of the various elements that make up the surface and near surface layers of the earth, and the makeup of the atmospheric gas. Nobody knows all of the variables, how they interact, or if the "constants" are really constant (for example the flux of cosmic radiation, or the strength and direction of the earth's magnetic field). What these AGW alarmists are saying is that the entire equation boils down to how much CO2, a trace gas at 0.04%, is in the atmosphere, and not only that, but only the tiny part that man has added since around 1900. Never mind that the temperature has been going up and down for millennia, no it is the 0.003% CO2 from humans that is the forcing function. This does not even pass the laugh test.
Don't you think it is funny how watermelons all concerned about the weather that unborn generations may or may not have to deal with are totally OK with inter-generational theft on a scale unknown in all of human history?
You will assume room temperature far before hydrocarbons run out. I remember when I was a kid in the 70's all freaked out that all the oil would be gone before I got my drivers license.
The existence of hydrocarbons on Titan, a moon of Saturn, and venting from the deepest oceans points to the probability that hydrocarbons don't have anything more to do with fossils than anything else in the earth's crust.
CO2 never has been and never will be a pollutant. Without it, all plant life on earth would be impossible. There is zero scientific proof that it causes atmospheric warming. For you true believers, please cite the scientific paper that convinced you beyond doubt that CO2 is the dominant driver of climate warming. Note, it your paper uses computer models or least squares curve fitting, it is worthless for proving causality.
If the Bamster is not an incompetent nincompoop, then he is simply evil. Or maybe you could point out all the evidence of his brilliance. Note that you will have to discount pretty much everything coming out of a TelePrompTer since someone else wrote it.
If he cared a fig for this country, he would not have yammered on about fundamental transformation. Nor would he have so grossly violated the separation of powers doctrine. Jail to the Chief!
If they stopped using oil-based products, they would be dead within days. Frozen, starving, and dehydrated. Every single item in a grocery store is oil-based.
I remember when it was revealed in the trial of a gangster that GM had turned on their OnStar system and recorded hours of conversation for the government. That was a wakeup call. Lots of sites with instructions on how to disable that bit of useless technology.
If these were such great ideas, why to they even need government intervention? Did the oil and gas companies need government money to get started? No. The industry I work in, semiconductors, gets along fine without subsidies to build fabs. If green energy were economically viable, it would attract investors easily. But it relies on handouts from the hapless, broke, taxpayer. And citing sources that exist only to promote green energy is not really very credible. "Congress moved to protect taxpayers by appropriating nearly $10 billion to cover potential losses..." Where do you think the $10B came from? The Bamster's stash? "There is no evidence to suggest that Fisker Automotive’s loan was a political handout." Nonsense. A dem bundler gets a bunch of taxpayer cash, stinks to high heaven. The auto industries should have been forced into bankruptcy, just like the airlines seem to do regularly. All the bailout did was save the lavish pensions of the UAW at taxpayer expense. Political payback pure and simple.
The law? Congress *never* voted to consider CO2 as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act. In fact, they explicitly voted against that. Hint: neither the executive branch not the judicial branch is allowed to make up laws.
The SCOTUS ordered no such thing. They allowed it to go forward, and the next administration could easily turn it back. How many scientists are there on SCOTUS? Zero. The climate kerfluffle is political from beginning to end, i.e. not scientific. There is nothing supreme about the supreme court. They get things wrong all the time.
Maybe you could point out the errors in the article? Just because the DNC public relations corps (ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, etc.) doesn't pick up a story does not mean it is not true. More likely it is true (fact checking these days is not that difficult), but highly embarrassing to the current administration.
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The point is that the government got their bite the first time around. What, do you think we should be taxing Christmas presents too? How about taxing the services that a mother provides to her child? Charity recipients should be paying tax on what they receive according to your "logic". No matter how much $ the beast gets, it will figure out how to squander it and then some. If we were spending at the same levels as the Clinton years, we would be running surpluses and paying down the debt. Tax-and-spenders like you will insure that the Mad Max scenario takes place.
Every freedom you enjoy was won by men bearing arms. The fact that you reject your heritage of liberty is tragic.
Wrong. A death tax by definition is double taxation. The greedy bastards in government have an insatiable lust for the fruits of your labor. And the more they take, the more they spend, and at some point the whole thing is going to implode. We have already run up the largest debt in the history of mankind. The operational debt is almost $18 trillion, unfunded liabilities are over $115 trillion (about $988K per taxpayer). And it is still growing quickly regardless of the lies government feeds us. This debt is simply unsustainable. It is time to starve the beast.
If you had made any points, then I would have gladly refuted them.
Excess energy is probably radiated out. The hotter something is, the more heat it radiates. Water vapor interacts with pretty much the exact same spectrum as CO2, and is far, far more prevalent. And comparing CO2's efficacy in a biological system to its importance in the weather is pretty lame. Oxygen plays a tiny role in the greenhouse effect but without it no animal life exists. I am confident that AGW will be shown to be the biggest scam in human history.
...but if you run that exact same app on a solid state drive you will, depending on the specific NANDs used and the speed of your code, soon begin to lose bits. As enough of those bits fail, you lose those sectors ...
Actually, there is no way to write to specific blocks of an SSD. The controller automatically stripes writes across multiple die, and the wear leveling algorithm makes sure that it is not always the same blocks. SSDs will wear out, no doubt, but not as fast as you think. For some actual data see: http://techreport.com/review/2... Even TLC drives like the Samsung 840EVO 250G got past 600 TB. When you add up all the hours you saved by not waiting for spinning rust to do it's thing, SSDs are a fantastic value.
Nonsense. The NSA is full of lawyers. Nobody has stopped infringements on our privacy. And if you maintain that the Axis was no threat to our freedom, you are suffering from severe mental issues and unfortunately, I cannot help you.
Tell me how a flat tax of 10% on *everyone's* income starting at the first dime is manipulation. Better yet, let's take the entire budget for government at all levels, divide it by the number of adults in the country, and present that bill, payable on demand, the day before primary elections. No taxes on property, fuel, death, profits, income, etc. Then we would figure out how much government we could afford.
The mind altering, alters all. Get some help.
Who said it was the job of government to give the poor any advantages? The more you subsidize something, the more of it you get. Fact. Sorry. And a pox on whoever decided that the purpose of the tax code is to manipulate the citizenry.
What a naive and childish point of view. Every single freedom you enjoy, including the freedom to hold childish views, was won by men with rifles. Period.
So tell me about all the dinosaurs and plants that decomposed to create the hydrocarbons on Titan or thousands of feet under the Atlantic. "Warnings" are not really considered facts or evidence.
You are surely aware that nature rarely follows simple linear constructs like you cite. There is an extremely complex non-linear partial differential equation that describes the temperature of a finite volume of atmospheric gas over time. Variables in the equation include initial conditions, radiation from the sun, the effect of cloud cover, humidity, the magnetic field of the earth, distance from the poles, heat constants of the various elements that make up the surface and near surface layers of the earth, and the makeup of the atmospheric gas. Nobody knows all of the variables, how they interact, or if the "constants" are really constant (for example the flux of cosmic radiation, or the strength and direction of the earth's magnetic field). What these AGW alarmists are saying is that the entire equation boils down to how much CO2, a trace gas at 0.04%, is in the atmosphere, and not only that, but only the tiny part that man has added since around 1900. Never mind that the temperature has been going up and down for millennia, no it is the 0.003% CO2 from humans that is the forcing function. This does not even pass the laugh test.
Don't you think it is funny how watermelons all concerned about the weather that unborn generations may or may not have to deal with are totally OK with inter-generational theft on a scale unknown in all of human history?
You will assume room temperature far before hydrocarbons run out. I remember when I was a kid in the 70's all freaked out that all the oil would be gone before I got my drivers license. The existence of hydrocarbons on Titan, a moon of Saturn, and venting from the deepest oceans points to the probability that hydrocarbons don't have anything more to do with fossils than anything else in the earth's crust.
CO2 never has been and never will be a pollutant. Without it, all plant life on earth would be impossible. There is zero scientific proof that it causes atmospheric warming. For you true believers, please cite the scientific paper that convinced you beyond doubt that CO2 is the dominant driver of climate warming. Note, it your paper uses computer models or least squares curve fitting, it is worthless for proving causality.
If the Bamster is not an incompetent nincompoop, then he is simply evil. Or maybe you could point out all the evidence of his brilliance. Note that you will have to discount pretty much everything coming out of a TelePrompTer since someone else wrote it.
If he cared a fig for this country, he would not have yammered on about fundamental transformation. Nor would he have so grossly violated the separation of powers doctrine. Jail to the Chief!
If they stopped using oil-based products, they would be dead within days. Frozen, starving, and dehydrated. Every single item in a grocery store is oil-based.
I remember when it was revealed in the trial of a gangster that GM had turned on their OnStar system and recorded hours of conversation for the government. That was a wakeup call. Lots of sites with instructions on how to disable that bit of useless technology.
If these were such great ideas, why to they even need government intervention? Did the oil and gas companies need government money to get started? No. The industry I work in, semiconductors, gets along fine without subsidies to build fabs. If green energy were economically viable, it would attract investors easily. But it relies on handouts from the hapless, broke, taxpayer. And citing sources that exist only to promote green energy is not really very credible. "Congress moved to protect taxpayers by appropriating nearly $10 billion to cover potential losses ..." Where do you think the $10B came from? The Bamster's stash? "There is no evidence to suggest that Fisker Automotive’s loan was a political handout." Nonsense. A dem bundler gets a bunch of taxpayer cash, stinks to high heaven. The auto industries should have been forced into bankruptcy, just like the airlines seem to do regularly. All the bailout did was save the lavish pensions of the UAW at taxpayer expense. Political payback pure and simple.
Except that congress never voted to explicitly exempt Hg from the Clean Air Act.
The law? Congress *never* voted to consider CO2 as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act. In fact, they explicitly voted against that. Hint: neither the executive branch not the judicial branch is allowed to make up laws.
The SCOTUS ordered no such thing. They allowed it to go forward, and the next administration could easily turn it back. How many scientists are there on SCOTUS? Zero. The climate kerfluffle is political from beginning to end, i.e. not scientific. There is nothing supreme about the supreme court. They get things wrong all the time.
Maybe you could point out the errors in the article? Just because the DNC public relations corps (ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, etc.) doesn't pick up a story does not mean it is not true. More likely it is true (fact checking these days is not that difficult), but highly embarrassing to the current administration.