Slash and burn is a mode of agriculture in tropical countries. A better guess would be Brazilian or Indonesian, certainly not American based on that terminology. You need more education and less ignorant nationalistic prejudice.
this will turn into a discussion assigning political blame, and nothing but a lot of hot air will be generated (pun intended)
what should happen:
blame should be set aside, and fixing the problem should be talked about. seed the ocean with iron to create phytoplankton blooms to suck out CO2 and sink to the ocean floor? it has flaws. so strategize some other ideas. yes, some will have anxiety about doing such major ecosystem altering activity when we aren't sure of every infinitesimal outcome... missing the whole goddamn point about what is already happening to the climate. penny wise, pound foolish. it's time for dramatic action, not hand wringing
look: natural, manmade, whatever: obviously the climate is changing, only complete idiots still insist it isn't. so the most compelling, overarching argument is: we have a vested economic interest in keeping our environment the way we are used to it. so we can talk about a price point about what we are willing to invest to keep the thermostat where it should be. so find the price point and fit a plan of action. end of discussion
we are homo sapiens: we don't evolve fur, we kill animals and wear their hides. we don't look for berries, we slash and burn and make the berries grow where we want them. and we don't get used to a hotter earth with more violent storms. we put our hands on the thermostat, and put the earth in the climate zone we like
we are homo sapiens: we don't adapt to the environment, we adapt the environment to us. we aren't fatalistic spineless scatterbrains. this whole climate change topic is really just an engineering problem, with currently not enough engineers working on it, and too many talking heads and other assorted nitwits involved. roll up the sleeves and get to work
there is a philosophical divide here, across which some people have an almost religious faith in a lost cause: that a trustworthy system can be built amongst peer nodes
sorry, it can't. any such system can be spoofed and gamed
when it comes to trust, you need a centralized authority. you may feel something akin to an allergic reaction when i say those words, but this is because this simple truth may go against some loopy beliefs of yours, fed by romantic idealism, not realistic understanding
i'll say it again: when it comes to trust, you need a centralized authorit
this simple truth applies to a bazillion other issues in the realm of privacy, freedom, government, currency, financial accountability, etc. therefore, these simple words of mine will of course be attacked by libertarians and other loopy thinkers, but it is a simple issue of the way trust works in this world. trust is about a large, visible, slow moving repository that everyone knows and everyone sees. that's how trust is earned. trust is not possible between entities that do not know each other unless those entities submit to the authority of that third party, the centralized authority, for the purposes of certain transactions
sorry, but welcome to reality. fact of life: you need centralized authority in the modern world, in civilization. some of you loopy romantics need to make peace with this fact. there's no way around it, in terms of simple logic
3. the computer industry was just a support system for the real heroic industries
now: the computer industry is the preeminent world industry (in terms of influence, company valuations, etc), and the space industry and nuclear industry are frail, aged, and dying
not exactly what people imagined 50 years ago, in policy making and the popular imagination
Exactly: whatever. It just means people in a cult like the Hasidic Jews can be programmed to sign a petition like lemmings. Hardly democracy in action.
What if one of the petitions was "endorse creationism in all school curricula and have evolution is expunged" and it had 200,000 signatures. You don't think that's possible? Would the follow up, the Obama administration's trite put down of the topic, mean Obama is ignoring the revolution? Ignoring the will of the people? Exactly.
I'm sorry, but political polls, and petitions, are pure bullshit. You can word anything to mean anything, and someone will say "yes" on a phone call or sign some piece of paper or check some box on a website, then some media write up can spin the numbers to mean pretty much whatever you want. And it all means nothing.
I think marijuana should be legal. I think reference to "God" should be removed from our currency and from our oath. And I think this news story and petitions in general are a complete waste of time.
The problem is pegging the right price to the cost of college.
I say, trace the lifetime incomes of everyone who graduated from college XYZ. Peg the cost of 4 years of that college, to 4% of the average lifetime income of previous graduates. THAT is how much that college deserves to charge.
Then, paying back your college loan is easy: a 4% surcharge is added onto your taxes, your entire working life.
So if the average graduate of college XYZ makes $80,000/ year, on average, for 30 years of employment, on average, then that college deserves to charge only
80K * 40 years * 4% / 4 years of college = $32,000 a year
That is paid back via a 4% tax surcharge over the working lifetime of the grad. Of course there are complications (grad school, only doing 3 yrs of college, etc.), but this is just an rough idea, it can be refined
you don't get it. you really don't understand the first thing about what you are talking about and who we are dealing with here in the form of the zetas
One wonders what it will take for those who want to suspend social and legal traditions because of an attack on freedom, to recognize that it is they who are destroying our freedom.
the date actually has nothing to do with the actual birth of christ, it actually has to do with the winter solstice
makes you wonder why the early christians didn't similarly rebrand halloween, like they did druid's holy trees (christmas trees) and yuletide logs and other local aspects of culture, in service of an invasive cult
oh, and also: no thanksgiving for you. that is a secular holiday, and therefore obviously the work satan too
the government isn't the source of the problem. the bland empty suit isn't your enemy, it is the cash propping him up that is the problem. follow the money genius
and things like the french revolution is not about education, it is about people who are hungry. it is what you get when an entrenched ultrarich siphon off too much money from society. because they "worked hard" for it
why is it you see so much jeopardy from the poor, and not from the predatorial moneyed classes? how many thousands of lessons of history do you need? or is that some people just have to see the french revolution again, they can't learn from it? why don't you go live in one of those countries with a handful of ultrarich the rest in grinding poverty, and no middle class? this is your ideology at work
you're an idiot. not a baseless insult. you are a genuine blind fool, as per an objective definition of the words
ron paul is to economics what creationists are to science: a deep and unshakeable blind faith in a fantastic lie
namely, that government involvement in the marketplace hurts it. ron paul and other libertarian idiots: left to its own devices, the market will naturally, i said NATURALLY, gravitate all power and wealth into the hands of a few. that this still might happen with government involved is a lesson in government being corrupted. so it is a reason to clean up government, not a reason to get government out of the way. getting government out of the way would accelerate the concentration of wealth in the hands of the few, to create even more all of the abuses you worry about appearing in the marketplace. government is the only chance we have to keep the market fair and equal. left to itself, all by itself, NATURALLY, the market is abused by its largest players
why don't some of you idiots understand this? why do you persist in this complete insanity that an unregulated marketplace is somehow fair and equal and somehow it is the government screws it up? the government is the only tool we have to keep it regulated, policed, and therefore fair, where the large are prevented from using their entrenched position to cheat off the backs of the small
where does this pseudoreligious belief, in defiance of all economic history and simple logic and reason come from that an unregulated marketplace is somehow more fair?
feeling for one's family gets generalized across tribe, clan, and eventually nation. even completely amoral convicts will happily murder a kiddie diddler in prison. why? because this feeling that someone preys on children is someone who needs to be eliminated is very deep. biological. not cultural or theological. you characterize it as hysteria, panic, hypermoralizing. but you're wrong, it is a lot deeper than that. just calling it panic doesn't address the root of the impulse at all
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Slash and burn is a mode of agriculture in tropical countries. A better guess would be Brazilian or Indonesian, certainly not American based on that terminology. You need more education and less ignorant nationalistic prejudice.
this will turn into a discussion assigning political blame, and nothing but a lot of hot air will be generated (pun intended)
what should happen:
blame should be set aside, and fixing the problem should be talked about. seed the ocean with iron to create phytoplankton blooms to suck out CO2 and sink to the ocean floor? it has flaws. so strategize some other ideas. yes, some will have anxiety about doing such major ecosystem altering activity when we aren't sure of every infinitesimal outcome... missing the whole goddamn point about what is already happening to the climate. penny wise, pound foolish. it's time for dramatic action, not hand wringing
look: natural, manmade, whatever: obviously the climate is changing, only complete idiots still insist it isn't. so the most compelling, overarching argument is: we have a vested economic interest in keeping our environment the way we are used to it. so we can talk about a price point about what we are willing to invest to keep the thermostat where it should be. so find the price point and fit a plan of action. end of discussion
we are homo sapiens: we don't evolve fur, we kill animals and wear their hides. we don't look for berries, we slash and burn and make the berries grow where we want them. and we don't get used to a hotter earth with more violent storms. we put our hands on the thermostat, and put the earth in the climate zone we like
we are homo sapiens: we don't adapt to the environment, we adapt the environment to us. we aren't fatalistic spineless scatterbrains. this whole climate change topic is really just an engineering problem, with currently not enough engineers working on it, and too many talking heads and other assorted nitwits involved. roll up the sleeves and get to work
there is a philosophical divide here, across which some people have an almost religious faith in a lost cause: that a trustworthy system can be built amongst peer nodes
sorry, it can't. any such system can be spoofed and gamed
when it comes to trust, you need a centralized authority. you may feel something akin to an allergic reaction when i say those words, but this is because this simple truth may go against some loopy beliefs of yours, fed by romantic idealism, not realistic understanding
i'll say it again: when it comes to trust, you need a centralized authorit
this simple truth applies to a bazillion other issues in the realm of privacy, freedom, government, currency, financial accountability, etc. therefore, these simple words of mine will of course be attacked by libertarians and other loopy thinkers, but it is a simple issue of the way trust works in this world. trust is about a large, visible, slow moving repository that everyone knows and everyone sees. that's how trust is earned. trust is not possible between entities that do not know each other unless those entities submit to the authority of that third party, the centralized authority, for the purposes of certain transactions
sorry, but welcome to reality. fact of life: you need centralized authority in the modern world, in civilization. some of you loopy romantics need to make peace with this fact. there's no way around it, in terms of simple logic
you reap what you sow
1. the space industry was booming
2. the nuclear industry was booming
3. the computer industry was just a support system for the real heroic industries
now: the computer industry is the preeminent world industry (in terms of influence, company valuations, etc), and the space industry and nuclear industry are frail, aged, and dying
not exactly what people imagined 50 years ago, in policy making and the popular imagination
"I am anonymous"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8h_v_our_Q
Did you see the last one?
https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/response/why-we-can%E2%80%99t-comment
Who the hell is Sholom Rubashkin?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholom_Rubashkin
Exactly: whatever. It just means people in a cult like the Hasidic Jews can be programmed to sign a petition like lemmings. Hardly democracy in action.
What if one of the petitions was "endorse creationism in all school curricula and have evolution is expunged" and it had 200,000 signatures. You don't think that's possible? Would the follow up, the Obama administration's trite put down of the topic, mean Obama is ignoring the revolution? Ignoring the will of the people? Exactly.
I'm sorry, but political polls, and petitions, are pure bullshit. You can word anything to mean anything, and someone will say "yes" on a phone call or sign some piece of paper or check some box on a website, then some media write up can spin the numbers to mean pretty much whatever you want. And it all means nothing.
I think marijuana should be legal. I think reference to "God" should be removed from our currency and from our oath. And I think this news story and petitions in general are a complete waste of time.
The problem is pegging the right price to the cost of college.
I say, trace the lifetime incomes of everyone who graduated from college XYZ. Peg the cost of 4 years of that college, to 4% of the average lifetime income of previous graduates. THAT is how much that college deserves to charge.
Then, paying back your college loan is easy: a 4% surcharge is added onto your taxes, your entire working life.
So if the average graduate of college XYZ makes $80,000/ year, on average, for 30 years of employment, on average, then that college deserves to charge only
80K * 40 years * 4% / 4 years of college = $32,000 a year
That is paid back via a 4% tax surcharge over the working lifetime of the grad. Of course there are complications (grad school, only doing 3 yrs of college, etc.), but this is just an rough idea, it can be refined
http://articles.cnn.com/1996-09-06/us/9609_06_fishy.name_1_mayor-george-carter-peta-animal-rights-group?_s=PM:US
pretty funny actually
keep saying that, as they spread their tentacles into the usa
you don't get it. you really don't understand the first thing about what you are talking about and who we are dealing with here in the form of the zetas
Anonymous style fear and intimidation is to drug cartel style fear and intimidation, like shooting a rubber band is to a howitzer.
That you compare the tactics of Anonymous to the Zetas is stupid or ridiculous, take your pick.
http://articles.cnn.com/2011-09-14/world/mexico.violence_1_zetas-cartel-social-media-users-nuevo-laredo?_s=PM:WORLD
I'm glad Anonymous is messing with these assholes, but they better do it carefully. The drug cartels work by fear and intimidation.
2. those that remain, put them under very heavy regulation, that they fund
3. anyone who wants to open a new CA must jump through a ridiculous number of hoops
the CAs are just too important to leave to the "hey man, the market takes care of itself" stupidity
I just finished reading this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/28/us/politics/republicans-push-military-trials-for-terrorism-suspects.html
One wonders what it will take for those who want to suspend social and legal traditions because of an attack on freedom, to recognize that it is they who are destroying our freedom.
christmas is just a power grab to rebrand a pre-christian rite
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturnalia
the date actually has nothing to do with the actual birth of christ, it actually has to do with the winter solstice
makes you wonder why the early christians didn't similarly rebrand halloween, like they did druid's holy trees (christmas trees) and yuletide logs and other local aspects of culture, in service of an invasive cult
oh, and also: no thanksgiving for you. that is a secular holiday, and therefore obviously the work satan too
paging dan brown, paging dan brown
there's a bad book plot here somewhere
lol
ok
Too oldschool
Today its all about the zombies:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/2011/06/24/zombie-warning-kentucky-_n_883737.html
the government isn't the source of the problem. the bland empty suit isn't your enemy, it is the cash propping him up that is the problem. follow the money genius
and things like the french revolution is not about education, it is about people who are hungry. it is what you get when an entrenched ultrarich siphon off too much money from society. because they "worked hard" for it
moron: you watch too many hollywood movies. the paranoid schizophrenic fantasies in them are meant for entertainment, it's not suppose to be real
good lord man, you actually sound just like a one dimensional villain from a cartoon. hilarious ;-)
why is it you see so much jeopardy from the poor, and not from the predatorial moneyed classes? how many thousands of lessons of history do you need? or is that some people just have to see the french revolution again, they can't learn from it? why don't you go live in one of those countries with a handful of ultrarich the rest in grinding poverty, and no middle class? this is your ideology at work
you're an idiot. not a baseless insult. you are a genuine blind fool, as per an objective definition of the words
that's some sort of personal record
i obviously struck a nerve, which speaks volumes
"methinks the lady doth protest to much" is shakespeare's sly remark on what a large outsized negative reactions really says
i guess i got your number, randroids
sorry for questioning one of the foundational delusions of your ignorant, nation destroying, economically illiterate quasireligion
ron paul is to economics what creationists are to science: a deep and unshakeable blind faith in a fantastic lie
namely, that government involvement in the marketplace hurts it. ron paul and other libertarian idiots: left to its own devices, the market will naturally, i said NATURALLY, gravitate all power and wealth into the hands of a few. that this still might happen with government involved is a lesson in government being corrupted. so it is a reason to clean up government, not a reason to get government out of the way. getting government out of the way would accelerate the concentration of wealth in the hands of the few, to create even more all of the abuses you worry about appearing in the marketplace. government is the only chance we have to keep the market fair and equal. left to itself, all by itself, NATURALLY, the market is abused by its largest players
why don't some of you idiots understand this? why do you persist in this complete insanity that an unregulated marketplace is somehow fair and equal and somehow it is the government screws it up? the government is the only tool we have to keep it regulated, policed, and therefore fair, where the large are prevented from using their entrenched position to cheat off the backs of the small
where does this pseudoreligious belief, in defiance of all economic history and simple logic and reason come from that an unregulated marketplace is somehow more fair?
feeling for one's family gets generalized across tribe, clan, and eventually nation. even completely amoral convicts will happily murder a kiddie diddler in prison. why? because this feeling that someone preys on children is someone who needs to be eliminated is very deep. biological. not cultural or theological. you characterize it as hysteria, panic, hypermoralizing. but you're wrong, it is a lot deeper than that. just calling it panic doesn't address the root of the impulse at all