Even if you factor in Gore running a business from his house (I suppose a check of zoning laws might be in order:-D) he still was consuming vast amounts of power. A large portion of that being the bill for his swimming pool and pool house.
He also has a habit of zooming around the world on private jets while shouting "the sky is falling!".
So, Gore is paying a premium for his wastrel life style. Goody for him. You realize of course that since he's buying that "green power" then someone else has to use the non-green power for their consumption.
Whatever happened to "conservation begins at home"? If things are really so darn bad then why isn't Al acting like it by changing his life style?
1) Congress is responsible for ratifying treaties. President Clinton didn't even bother submitting Kyoto knowing it was dead on arrival.
2) The US has actually done much better in reducing green house gas emissions compared to most Kyoto signatories. Name me one country that will actually meet its obligations.
3) Russia only signed onto Kyoto because their CO2 levels were set before the huge decline in industrial output there so they had credits to spare that there were hoping to make a buck on selling.
And on a more personal note: 4) President Bush's home in Texas is actually a surprising green residence while Gore's pool house consumes more power than the average person's home.
A major Christian protest where someone is carrying a sign saying "Behead those who Insult Christianity" and maybe we've got something to start talking about.
Right now the public face of Islam is that of violent jihad. Until that is changed then we have things like a cartoon being refused because it happens to mention Islam and jihad. Have you read the strip in question?
This is just like the news stink he ginned up before Fahrenheit 9/11 where he claimed that Disney yanked a distribution deal that never existed. The only thing Moore is beholden too is money. He makes as much of it as he can and gives out as little of it as possible (just see the complaints from various employees of his).
Actually France is being even more aggressive in lowering their CO2 emissions as some of those unemployed "youths" are running around burning cars each night to make sure the evil things don't pollute (I wonder if they have to buy CO2 offsets for the burning cars?).
The idea behind using ethanol instead of petrol is that currently there's a lot of CO2 stored in petrol, but by growing plants then burning them, we're not adding any CO2 to the atmosphere.
So you mean to tell me that we get 100% of the energy that went into growing that plant back in burning it in the car that uses the methanol? Neat trick that, I suppose peasant laborers harvest the crop by hand, drag it in from the fields on sledges, mash the corn, refine it, and then carry the finished product to the gas station by bicycle?
(We'll ignore that the highest percentage of methanol is the E85 that GM is pushing and that's only 85% ethanol, that other 15% is magic dragon puffs?) Here's a good breakdown on what Ethanol and the other alternatives really cost (yeah, it's a PDF) http://media.popularmechanics.com/documents/Fuel_o f_the_Future-e852.pdf
The big problem is that Maynor has yet to release exploit code or crash dumps for the alleged native hack.
The burden of proof remains on those who claimed the exploit, they've managed to utterly fail to live up to that burden. (Maynor's last demonstration only produced a DoS crash with the lame excuse of not wanting sniffers to get his exploit code for not showing the "pwnage".)
So how exactly is that enforced/guaranteed by a government? Did they arrest everyone who called for the death of the Mohammed cartoonists? (I believe calling for the beheading of someone would certainly be considered a threat to bodily harm.)
How about all of those household injuries and car accidents?
Pick a European country (and yes I know Europe isn't a country but the original post wasn't being specific) and let's compare and contrast those free speech rights.
My point was that the original post lamented about how horrible things were getting in the US while ignoring the fact that many personal rights are more restricted in the majority of European countries.
Considering how you don't even enjoy First Amendment protections in Europe then it is particularly sad. It's sad that you're so damned blinkered to always be bemoaning the impending fascism of the US while ignoring your own conditions.
The point about the passport is that there is a compelling role of the federal government in issuing identifications. There's also that pesky social security number though you'll probably argue that that's just to support the revenue source thing (I'm curious as to how you think the government could provide for the general welfare and other stuff without money though...)
As for reciprocal state agreements that's under the "Full Faith and Credit" clause rather than something that is negotiated amongst individual states.
Gee, I wonder who it was who issued me that passport then?
In this case, the Federal government is NOT in fact issuing ID's (driver licenses in this case) but they have come up with an idea and are using their current federal funding as a method of "encouraging" states to adopt those ideas.
In the case of a DL it becomes more complicated because it is used across state boundaries and is also one of the accepted forms of identification for air travel. That would probably allow the Federal government to further stretch the commerce clause to cover it as well but they didn't decide to go that route.
I'm pretty sure that the federal approach of using the threat of cutting off funding to get desired results has been upheld many times. Most recent would be cases related to the Solomon Ammendment.
...every time we try to introduce a paper trail into voting the Democrats and various groups scream "racism!" and "disenfranchisement!". Heck, a court or two has even overturned such measure as "anti-constitutional".
Really, before we worry about whether we've recorded the vote correctly, shouldn't we be worrying about if we recorded the voter correctly?
Being sent out by our independent news outlets, they certainly could use some checking. The DoD objects to a news report that says that Guantanamo finally has terrorists with the transfer of the 14 high-ranking al Qaeda members and it's pointed out that there were already a number of confessed al Qaeda members in Guantanamo since it started, the newspapers lame response is that they were merely using the language "lightheartedly" instead of actually describing a fact.
The Times declined to issue a correction, noting that "the phrase in question was meant to be somewhat lighthearted in tone and not literal."
I think the big issue/deal is that the number of main stream boxes that support x86-64 is just increasing. Also, the pick-up on Vista will probably be largely new boxes because of the questions of hardware requirements and cost of a new box versus time and expense to open and upgrade a current box (especially in the corporate world).
XP 64 is more of an oddity than anything else. The question will be what percentage of home users will have a 64-bit version of Windows shipping on their new boxes.
I suppose we're up for another healthy round of "bash Americ(kkk)a"? Please folks let's just give it all a rest.
Let's see what we've got - the most egregious case of a reporter being prosecuted for refusing to reveal a source was the now infamous Plame "outing". Do I need to bother pointing out that it was the media's incessant demands for an investigation that led to this in the first place?
Maybe we should instead look at the NYT's public editor's recent mea culpa where he admitted that the NYT shouldn't have broken the story about the SWIFT monitoring? Turns out that the program was secret, effective, and *gasp* legal. Oh well, NYT and the LAT got their scoop, secrets be damned.
If we want to talk about press freedom how about we get worked up about the cartoon drawers who have had to go into hiding? How about the newspaper editors who have been killed? How about the riots that emerge anytime anyone even breaths something that could be misconstrued as insulting to Islam.
Here's your press freedom quiz: 1) You're reporting on riots caused by the release of some political cartoons. Do you show the cartoons?
2) You're reporting on Iraq and you receive an obvious propoganda video of sniper shooting, do you show the video?
CNN's answer was No and Yes, you can guess which order those were in.
It's not "thou shalt not search without a warrant", period, full stop.
No, it has caveats including "reasonable search", "expectation of privacy", and a host of others that keep Constitutional lawyers quite busy arguing over the nuances.
I think you'll find that the President is Commander in Chief 24x7x365 and part of that job is keeping the country safe which means gathering intelligence.
Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1. The President is given the role of Commander in Chief.
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to Grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
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Even if you factor in Gore running a business from his house (I suppose a check of zoning laws might be in order :-D) he still was consuming vast amounts of power. A large portion of that being the bill for his swimming pool and pool house.
He also has a habit of zooming around the world on private jets while shouting "the sky is falling!".
So, Gore is paying a premium for his wastrel life style. Goody for him. You realize of course that since he's buying that "green power" then someone else has to use the non-green power for their consumption.
Whatever happened to "conservation begins at home"? If things are really so darn bad then why isn't Al acting like it by changing his life style?
Apparently the people in China who aren't poor are leading a huge increase in demand for American SUV's and stretched hummers. (Details: http://www.rfa.org/english/features/lelyveld/2007/01/22/china_wealthgap/)
1) Congress is responsible for ratifying treaties. President Clinton didn't even bother submitting Kyoto knowing it was dead on arrival.
2) The US has actually done much better in reducing green house gas emissions compared to most Kyoto signatories. Name me one country that will actually meet its obligations.
3) Russia only signed onto Kyoto because their CO2 levels were set before the huge decline in industrial output there so they had credits to spare that there were hoping to make a buck on selling.
And on a more personal note:
4) President Bush's home in Texas is actually a surprising green residence while Gore's pool house consumes more power than the average person's home.
A major Christian protest where someone is carrying a sign saying "Behead those who Insult Christianity" and maybe we've got something to start talking about.
Right now the public face of Islam is that of violent jihad. Until that is changed then we have things like a cartoon being refused because it happens to mention Islam and jihad. Have you read the strip in question?
IIRC Minmei was something like 13 years old in Robotech.
This is just like the news stink he ginned up before Fahrenheit 9/11 where he claimed that Disney yanked a distribution deal that never existed. The only thing Moore is beholden too is money. He makes as much of it as he can and gives out as little of it as possible (just see the complaints from various employees of his).
This is nothing but another PR stunt.
Actually France is being even more aggressive in lowering their CO2 emissions as some of those unemployed "youths" are running around burning cars each night to make sure the evil things don't pollute (I wonder if they have to buy CO2 offsets for the burning cars?).
Will that have the little red squiggly line under it?
I guess after shoving Windows into the thing they'll have to drop a letter from it's spelling because they're out of space...
Allow? Deny?
Hmmm, this would certainly make the whole zombie bot army thing a lot more fearsome.
The idea behind using ethanol instead of petrol is that currently there's a lot of CO2 stored in petrol, but by growing plants then burning them, we're not adding any CO2 to the atmosphere.
o f_the_Future-e852.pdf
So you mean to tell me that we get 100% of the energy that went into growing that plant back in burning it in the car that uses the methanol? Neat trick that, I suppose peasant laborers harvest the crop by hand, drag it in from the fields on sledges, mash the corn, refine it, and then carry the finished product to the gas station by bicycle?
(We'll ignore that the highest percentage of methanol is the E85 that GM is pushing and that's only 85% ethanol, that other 15% is magic dragon puffs?) Here's a good breakdown on what Ethanol and the other alternatives really cost (yeah, it's a PDF) http://media.popularmechanics.com/documents/Fuel_
The big problem is that Maynor has yet to release exploit code or crash dumps for the alleged native hack.
The burden of proof remains on those who claimed the exploit, they've managed to utterly fail to live up to that burden. (Maynor's last demonstration only produced a DoS crash with the lame excuse of not wanting sniffers to get his exploit code for not showing the "pwnage".)
I tried running Windows on the fridge. It kept freezing up on me.
Now that's an interesting right.
So how exactly is that enforced/guaranteed by a government? Did they arrest everyone who called for the death of the Mohammed cartoonists? (I believe calling for the beheading of someone would certainly be considered a threat to bodily harm.)
How about all of those household injuries and car accidents?
Pick a European country (and yes I know Europe isn't a country but the original post wasn't being specific) and let's compare and contrast those free speech rights.
My point was that the original post lamented about how horrible things were getting in the US while ignoring the fact that many personal rights are more restricted in the majority of European countries.
Considering how you don't even enjoy First Amendment protections in Europe then it is particularly sad. It's sad that you're so damned blinkered to always be bemoaning the impending fascism of the US while ignoring your own conditions.
The point about the passport is that there is a compelling role of the federal government in issuing identifications. There's also that pesky social security number though you'll probably argue that that's just to support the revenue source thing (I'm curious as to how you think the government could provide for the general welfare and other stuff without money though...)
As for reciprocal state agreements that's under the "Full Faith and Credit" clause rather than something that is negotiated amongst individual states.
Gee, I wonder who it was who issued me that passport then?
In this case, the Federal government is NOT in fact issuing ID's (driver licenses in this case) but they have come up with an idea and are using their current federal funding as a method of "encouraging" states to adopt those ideas.
In the case of a DL it becomes more complicated because it is used across state boundaries and is also one of the accepted forms of identification for air travel. That would probably allow the Federal government to further stretch the commerce clause to cover it as well but they didn't decide to go that route.
I'm pretty sure that the federal approach of using the threat of cutting off funding to get desired results has been upheld many times. Most recent would be cases related to the Solomon Ammendment.
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...every time we try to introduce a paper trail into voting the Democrats and various groups scream "racism!" and "disenfranchisement!". Heck, a court or two has even overturned such measure as "anti-constitutional".
Really, before we worry about whether we've recorded the vote correctly, shouldn't we be worrying about if we recorded the voter correctly?
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You can also look at how they took a Rumsfield quote completely out of context to have him yelling at war critics.
Heaven forbid a company or a government should be concerned with accurate portrayals in the news.
I think the big issue/deal is that the number of main stream boxes that support x86-64 is just increasing. Also, the pick-up on Vista will probably be largely new boxes because of the questions of hardware requirements and cost of a new box versus time and expense to open and upgrade a current box (especially in the corporate world).
XP 64 is more of an oddity than anything else. The question will be what percentage of home users will have a 64-bit version of Windows shipping on their new boxes.
CNN never showed the Mohammed cartoons.
The DID show the sniper snuff film.
I suppose we're up for another healthy round of "bash Americ(kkk)a"? Please folks let's just give it all a rest.
Let's see what we've got - the most egregious case of a reporter being prosecuted for refusing to reveal a source was the now infamous Plame "outing". Do I need to bother pointing out that it was the media's incessant demands for an investigation that led to this in the first place?
Maybe we should instead look at the NYT's public editor's recent mea culpa where he admitted that the NYT shouldn't have broken the story about the SWIFT monitoring? Turns out that the program was secret, effective, and *gasp* legal. Oh well, NYT and the LAT got their scoop, secrets be damned.
If we want to talk about press freedom how about we get worked up about the cartoon drawers who have had to go into hiding? How about the newspaper editors who have been killed? How about the riots that emerge anytime anyone even breaths something that could be misconstrued as insulting to Islam.
Here's your press freedom quiz:
1) You're reporting on riots caused by the release of some political cartoons. Do you show the cartoons?
2) You're reporting on Iraq and you receive an obvious propoganda video of sniper shooting, do you show the video?
CNN's answer was No and Yes, you can guess which order those were in.
does not mean what you think it does.
It's not "thou shalt not search without a warrant", period, full stop.
No, it has caveats including "reasonable search", "expectation of privacy", and a host of others that keep Constitutional lawyers quite busy arguing over the nuances.
I think you'll find that the President is Commander in Chief 24x7x365 and part of that job is keeping the country safe which means gathering intelligence.
Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1. The President is given the role of Commander in Chief.
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The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to Grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
Discussion about the clause is here: http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/a