"One might speak to great length of the three corners of reality: what was seen, what was thought to be seen, and what was thought ought to be seen." -Marvel Bell
"The reality of life is that your perceptions -- right or wrong -- influence everything else you do. When you get a proper perspective of your perceptions, you may be surprised how many other things fall into place." -Roger Birkman
"Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction." -Thomas Carlyle
So, as a simple and immediate solution to this problem, we only need to send half of obese American women to Europe in exchange for thin European women.
IANAL, but since the United States government doesn't recognize bitcoins as a legal form of currency anyway, taking this to court would probably be fruitless and a waste of time.
And if your gold coins get stolen, the police should not investigate and prosecute the thieves since gold is not a "legal" form of currency?
Some countries actually subsidize fuel for their citizens. I think that's a dumb choice, but it's their choice.
You know, there is not enough discussion of this because it is an extremely dumb choice. Oil-producing governments could be subsidizing sustainable agricultural development or water desalination or algae-biofuels. But instead they are subsidizing SUVs that will completely disappear when the oil runs out. It's one thing to distribute royalties, but quite another to specifically subsidize what can only be described as deliberate, extremely short-sighted profligacy.
Unfortunately that will absolutely never change. Thanks to birthright citizenship and an almost complete abrogation of basic property rights, US cities are crime havens. No one in their right mind will invest infrastructure in high-density ghettos.
The oil market is very happy when the price goes up
You mean oil producers. Don't confuse traders with producers. Traders are generally* incentivized to find the correct price, not a high price. Producers are incentivized to demand the highest price possible without getting 'liberated'.
*ignoring money-printing "we won't have an economy if you don't give me $900 billion" nonsense
Fuck, I'm not the only one. Normally I'm not a particularly enamored of British spellings, but seeing "specter" without being preceded by "arlen" makes my eyes burn.
They do. It's called Wall Street. All the profits are siphoned out of the country into pointless foreign wars and offshore banks. In fact, that's where all of your taxes go too for that matter, so it's exactly what you ask for.
In case it isn't clear to you by now, the "war on terror" is just an excuse to attack the few remaining holdouts from the massive economic clusterfuck that is the privately-owned, centrally monopolized Federal Reserve money-printin'-and-brown-people-bombin' system. For his "axis of evil" countries to attack, Bush picked a few mid-sized, ideologically pure (yet otherwise disparate) alternatives to his preferred globalist technocratic inflation-targeting consumptionist wage-slavery -- Stalinist socialism, Islamic fundamentalism, and Juche.
The other one on the list, and the one they can't mention openly for obvious reasons, is individualist libertarianism, which the globalist neo-cons, who control both Republicans and Democrats, have been quietly preparing to move against. Part of this preparation has been a concerted effort to wage "war on the internet" by seizing control of key infrastructure, demonizing privacy and encryption, putting legal precedents in place to centrally manage the free flow of information, and propping up "hacker" boogey-men as a new terror threat. Another (vital) part of this preparation is the demonization of de-centralized financial centers such as precious metals trading, alternative currencies and small-scale gaming.
But it's wrong to assume they are even remotely against gambling. In fact, gambling is central to the casino gulag state model, which replaces free markets, capitalism and true economic progress with a mad rush towards resource depletion and endless make-work in the name of equal-opportunity servitude. Neo-cons own and operate plenty of major casinos. Hell, look at Wall St. -- it's the worlds biggest gambling operation, and it's state-subsidized. What they're against, of course, is competition.
As for DHS, it was obviously created as a new police state bureaucracy in order to shuffle around the cronies, and to stifle growing internal dissent with new blood and new funding. They're probably involved only because they are currently the top layer in the pyramid cake of corruption, and no other agency would stoop to the ridiculous level of waging economic warfare on Canadians of all things.
From watching him, Santorum doesn't seem to be either stupid or fascist. In fact, I'm not exactly sure what his damage is. He is either extremely sheltered, and fairly gullible, or as Ron Paul points out, fake. Since he's a lawyer and career politician, I'd lean towards fake.
In an ideal world, some mechanism (carbon taxes perhaps) would redirect clean, high-carbon sources for use as soil amendments, while allowing hydrogen-rich wastes to be removed to produce biofuels.
Whale oil was also sustainable and renewable, but not at the rates of consumption that existed in the 19th century. They ran out of whales.
This is an important point. Without sane government structures in place (such as protection of property rights and regulation of negative externalities) every renewable energy source will eventually suffer the exact same fate, as populations keep increasing and governments re-distribute wealth in order to support them.
It's frightening that genetically-engineered crops have become so prevalent as to contaminate small-scale organic farms. The intellectual property arguments are obvious, but more concerning is the health risks. Compared with thousands of years of human agricultural co-evolution, these modifications are nowhere near as thoroughly-tested. Food crops nowadays are even modified to produce their own pesticides! There are likely very consequential side-effects lurking that will only appear generations later. Organic farmers, the ones that don't cheat, are doing us all a service by maintaining pure strains of our most important crops. Surely everyone should want to support this and protect them against contamination.
You're right, it is cold war bullshit. Because the exact same fucking clowns who lied all through the cold war as an excuse to pad military budgets and implement their stone-age social agenda while schoolchildren cowered under their desks in fear of imminent annihilation are still in positions of influence, and have repeated the exact same bullshit in order to continue terrorizing the American people and perpetuating their bizarre right-wing-collectivist ideologies.
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Unemployment insurance pays better.
So once again socialists scuttle renewable energy along with every other beneficial aspect of capitalism.
And are the generators sufficiently isolated from the grid to prevent damage?
"One might speak to great length of the three corners of reality: what was seen, what was thought to be seen, and what was thought ought to be seen."
-Marvel Bell
"The reality of life is that your perceptions -- right or wrong -- influence everything else you do. When you get a proper perspective of your perceptions, you may be surprised how many other things fall into place."
-Roger Birkman
"Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction."
-Thomas Carlyle
The study was only done in Europe.
So, as a simple and immediate solution to this problem, we only need to send half of obese American women to Europe in exchange for thin European women.
So, in other words, you don't know and are just talking out of your ass.
IANAL, but since the United States government doesn't recognize bitcoins as a legal form of currency anyway, taking this to court would probably be fruitless and a waste of time.
And if your gold coins get stolen, the police should not investigate and prosecute the thieves since gold is not a "legal" form of currency?
What use do you see in Federal Reserve Notes?
Some countries actually subsidize fuel for their citizens. I think that's a dumb choice, but it's their choice.
You know, there is not enough discussion of this because it is an extremely dumb choice. Oil-producing governments could be subsidizing sustainable agricultural development or water desalination or algae-biofuels. But instead they are subsidizing SUVs that will completely disappear when the oil runs out. It's one thing to distribute royalties, but quite another to specifically subsidize what can only be described as deliberate, extremely short-sighted profligacy.
not just an accidental development or a law of nature.
Nature abhors a vacuum. The US has twice the land per capita of any non-Scandinavian European country.
Unfortunately that will absolutely never change. Thanks to birthright citizenship and an almost complete abrogation of basic property rights, US cities are crime havens. No one in their right mind will invest infrastructure in high-density ghettos.
That's not necessarily irrational. Gas is a lot cheaper than rent in some places.
The oil market is very happy when the price goes up
You mean oil producers. Don't confuse traders with producers. Traders are generally* incentivized to find the correct price, not a high price. Producers are incentivized to demand the highest price possible without getting 'liberated'.
*ignoring money-printing "we won't have an economy if you don't give me $900 billion" nonsense
GDP is not even close to being a measure of wealth.
Also, it's spelled "spectre".
Fuck, I'm not the only one. Normally I'm not a particularly enamored of British spellings, but seeing "specter" without being preceded by "arlen" makes my eyes burn.
They do. It's called Wall Street. All the profits are siphoned out of the country into pointless foreign wars and offshore banks. In fact, that's where all of your taxes go too for that matter, so it's exactly what you ask for.
In case it isn't clear to you by now, the "war on terror" is just an excuse to attack the few remaining holdouts from the massive economic clusterfuck that is the privately-owned, centrally monopolized Federal Reserve money-printin'-and-brown-people-bombin' system. For his "axis of evil" countries to attack, Bush picked a few mid-sized, ideologically pure (yet otherwise disparate) alternatives to his preferred globalist technocratic inflation-targeting consumptionist wage-slavery -- Stalinist socialism, Islamic fundamentalism, and Juche.
The other one on the list, and the one they can't mention openly for obvious reasons, is individualist libertarianism, which the globalist neo-cons, who control both Republicans and Democrats, have been quietly preparing to move against. Part of this preparation has been a concerted effort to wage "war on the internet" by seizing control of key infrastructure, demonizing privacy and encryption, putting legal precedents in place to centrally manage the free flow of information, and propping up "hacker" boogey-men as a new terror threat. Another (vital) part of this preparation is the demonization of de-centralized financial centers such as precious metals trading, alternative currencies and small-scale gaming.
But it's wrong to assume they are even remotely against gambling. In fact, gambling is central to the casino gulag state model, which replaces free markets, capitalism and true economic progress with a mad rush towards resource depletion and endless make-work in the name of equal-opportunity servitude. Neo-cons own and operate plenty of major casinos. Hell, look at Wall St. -- it's the worlds biggest gambling operation, and it's state-subsidized. What they're against, of course, is competition.
As for DHS, it was obviously created as a new police state bureaucracy in order to shuffle around the cronies, and to stifle growing internal dissent with new blood and new funding. They're probably involved only because they are currently the top layer in the pyramid cake of corruption, and no other agency would stoop to the ridiculous level of waging economic warfare on Canadians of all things.
Changing your behaviour is one of the red flags
True. But this has more to do with their particular hormonal imbalances than with any connection to reality.
From watching him, Santorum doesn't seem to be either stupid or fascist. In fact, I'm not exactly sure what his damage is. He is either extremely sheltered, and fairly gullible, or as Ron Paul points out, fake. Since he's a lawyer and career politician, I'd lean towards fake.
In an ideal world, some mechanism (carbon taxes perhaps) would redirect clean, high-carbon sources for use as soil amendments, while allowing hydrogen-rich wastes to be removed to produce biofuels.
You can get fertilizer through aquaponics.
Whale oil was also sustainable and renewable, but not at the rates of consumption that existed in the 19th century. They ran out of whales.
This is an important point. Without sane government structures in place (such as protection of property rights and regulation of negative externalities) every renewable energy source will eventually suffer the exact same fate, as populations keep increasing and governments re-distribute wealth in order to support them.
Your "400 years" number has already been debunked in this thread.
The real number, in the US at least, is closer to 2 years per year. That's with something like cellulosic ethanol.
Your idea of "very easy" is hilariously misguided.
It's frightening that genetically-engineered crops have become so prevalent as to contaminate small-scale organic farms. The intellectual property arguments are obvious, but more concerning is the health risks. Compared with thousands of years of human agricultural co-evolution, these modifications are nowhere near as thoroughly-tested. Food crops nowadays are even modified to produce their own pesticides! There are likely very consequential side-effects lurking that will only appear generations later. Organic farmers, the ones that don't cheat, are doing us all a service by maintaining pure strains of our most important crops. Surely everyone should want to support this and protect them against contamination.
You're right, it is cold war bullshit. Because the exact same fucking clowns who lied all through the cold war as an excuse to pad military budgets and implement their stone-age social agenda while schoolchildren cowered under their desks in fear of imminent annihilation are still in positions of influence, and have repeated the exact same bullshit in order to continue terrorizing the American people and perpetuating their bizarre right-wing-collectivist ideologies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3defm8SQ9o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEBu2FW7LB8
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0213-28.htm