No, we're a union of states, and this is how the country was set up - states are supposed to be able to vary from one another and the tenth ammendment (or ninth - I forget) reserves unenumerated rights to the states and people. The rights of the fed, on paper, are limited. In practice, it's a bit different. The question is whether the fed has the right to demand that Texas not kill minors.
The only people I know and have read about who were for pulling the feeding tube were the "'Immoral demonic' Left" (see, I can troll, too) who didn't have a problem with starving the lady but didn't have the guts to say what they were doing with any more than a whisper: just be done with it and put her down.
Who cares? Starving a corpse is A-ok in my book.
As for your plug about the 10 Commandments, they're a useful moral code for running a country. Why people would have problems with something that says murdering other people is bad, or that you should love your neighbor as yourself, is beyond me.
It's the other things like worshipping a specific god and not taking his name in vain. This is a secular country.
While I think that a society of addicts is ultimately doomed, my primary concern are the victims of drug abusers.
Bullshit. You just think it's evil and want it kept illegal.
We already have to deal with intoxicated people operating cars, planes, and other potentially lethal machinery. How much worse would things be if now, in addition to those, you've got people high on ecstasy or marijuana?
Actually, it'd spike, then come back to about the same.
Some of the effects of these drugs make alcohol pale in comparison.
For instance, it gives you the munchies and suppresses nausea.
They even go on to say how great it would be for everyone because then the government will be able to collect taxes in the same manner they do with tobacco. Last time I checked, not very many people grow tobacco in their backyards and make cigarettes in their basements. Why does anyone think dealers give the government a cut of their lucrative business?
People are lazy - they mostly will buy from a dealer if they can, just like with beer. The current dealers will be swept away by lower priced competition once they don't have a government granted monopoly.
I wonder what percentage of these new taxes would go to pay for the welfare of addicts?
The 95% efficiency number is probably related to a plutonium cycle and really only applies to theoretical high burnup or breeder reactors
The 95% was in fact referring to a newish design for a thorium breeder reactor; it can reprocess its fuel, so it produces less waste that is dangerous for less time. It also can degrade plutonium if that's what you want. I'll chew through the rest of your comment and respond later.
Yeah, he was also a union buster, but he made cars affordable and did a lot of good things for the country. Hell, even Hitler was responsible for VW and the Autobahn.
Banging away at a vehicle such as the H2 is a joke to me when considered against other vehicles such as the Cayenne Turbo, the Cayenne S and the Cayenne. These vehicles are just a hairs length above the H2, so why is the Hummer getting stuck?
Because the Cayenne is a freak and we feel pity for it.
Except that the batteries in your hybrid car are in fact NOT easily recycled--it is the single most expensive component of the entire car to recycle, and the process is less established than that for more conventional lead-acid or NiCd batteries. Closed-loop recycling is not possible with current technology for Li-Ion and NiMH batteries and will not be for some years to come (though it has been possible for lead-acid batteries and to get all the Cd out of NiCd as well).
And it will be if the volume ramps up. The Nickel in the NiMH batteries is a good input for steel manufacturing, so it's not as if not having closed loop recycling is that bad.
Just as many people are SUBurban dwellers as well (such as myself). Suburban dwellers often drive a good portion of their commute on expressways (two-thirds of my daily commute by distance is "highway" driving). Furthermore, professional drivers (taxi operators, intra-city delivery drivers, etc) are exceptional cases of very high mileage AND mostly urban driving (typical drivers are almost never both).
The point here is that Prius' are very good for a category of driver that includes a lot of people. If you commute a lot and get stuck in traffic (which is a lot of suburban drivers) ar drive locally a fair bit, which is most of them, then the Prius beats a hummer. As a matter of fact, the only thing a Hummer is good for is offroading (H1 only) and draining your wallet.
I expect cab drivers to be orgasmic over the Prius - they'll make serious bucks driving those things around.
The batteries contain toxic materials and require a great deal of energy to produce.
The batteries at least are easily recycled and, should production ramp up, closed loop recycling is a real likelihood. To counter some of your examples, urban driving really plays to the Prius' strengths (which is where a lot of people live anyway), and cab drivers must absolutely love the things.
Despite what the nuclear industry tells us, building enough nuclear power stations to make a meaningful reduction in greenhouse gas emissions would cost trillions of dollars, create tens of thousands of tons of lethal high-level radioactive waste, contribute to further proliferation of nuclear weapons materials, and result in a Chernobyl-scale accident once every decade. Perhaps most significantly, it will squander the resources necessary to implement meaningful climate change solutions.
What a load of crap. Nuke plants that produce no weaponizable material are available, and they are something like 95% efficient = not much waste at all. Even Chernobyl wouldn't have been famous if they hadn't disabled several safeguards and run experiments on a live nuke plant; we in the west don't build archaic things like that anyway - the designs from the last 10-20 years are great and we need to start building them.
The hell with your star trek toys. I want a Culture ship that's on good terms with me. Nothing says love like 20k lights and enough boom to erase a planet.
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Congress is specifically given the right to regulate copyright. Sorry.
No, we're a union of states, and this is how the country was set up - states are supposed to be able to vary from one another and the tenth ammendment (or ninth - I forget) reserves unenumerated rights to the states and people. The rights of the fed, on paper, are limited. In practice, it's a bit different. The question is whether the fed has the right to demand that Texas not kill minors.
The only people I know and have read about who were for pulling the feeding tube were the "'Immoral demonic' Left" (see, I can troll, too) who didn't have a problem with starving the lady but didn't have the guts to say what they were doing with any more than a whisper: just be done with it and put her down.
Who cares? Starving a corpse is A-ok in my book.
As for your plug about the 10 Commandments, they're a useful moral code for running a country. Why people would have problems with something that says murdering other people is bad, or that you should love your neighbor as yourself, is beyond me.
It's the other things like worshipping a specific god and not taking his name in vain. This is a secular country.
Texas does have some good ideas, after all.
While I think that a society of addicts is ultimately doomed, my primary concern are the victims of drug abusers.
Bullshit. You just think it's evil and want it kept illegal.
We already have to deal with intoxicated people operating cars, planes, and other potentially lethal machinery. How much worse would things be if now, in addition to those, you've got people high on ecstasy or marijuana?
Actually, it'd spike, then come back to about the same.
Some of the effects of these drugs make alcohol pale in comparison.
For instance, it gives you the munchies and suppresses nausea.
They even go on to say how great it would be for everyone because then the government will be able to collect taxes in the same manner they do with tobacco. Last time I checked, not very many people grow tobacco in their backyards and make cigarettes in their basements. Why does anyone think dealers give the government a cut of their lucrative business?
People are lazy - they mostly will buy from a dealer if they can, just like with beer. The current dealers will be swept away by lower priced competition once they don't have a government granted monopoly.
I wonder what percentage of these new taxes would go to pay for the welfare of addicts?
Trot out welfare queens - this is relevant how?
Logic has no place in pro-drug arguments
You wouldn't know logic if ti raped your dog.
The 95% efficiency number is probably related to a plutonium cycle and really only applies to theoretical high burnup or breeder reactors
The 95% was in fact referring to a newish design for a thorium breeder reactor; it can reprocess its fuel, so it produces less waste that is dangerous for less time. It also can degrade plutonium if that's what you want. I'll chew through the rest of your comment and respond later.
Nope. The point of all that is to teach attention to detail, which keeps you alive when the shit starts flying.
Historical trivia: the KKK started as a Civil War veteran's club. SImilarly, MADD started as a group attempting to raise awareness of drunk driving.
Yeah, he was also a union buster, but he made cars affordable and did a lot of good things for the country. Hell, even Hitler was responsible for VW and the Autobahn.
Only problem there is I'd have to be a competitive biker to eat there more than once a week - those burritos are heavy!
Banging away at a vehicle such as the H2 is a joke to me when considered against other vehicles such as the Cayenne Turbo, the Cayenne S and the Cayenne. These vehicles are just a hairs length above the H2, so why is the Hummer getting stuck?
Because the Cayenne is a freak and we feel pity for it.
Except that the batteries in your hybrid car are in fact NOT easily recycled--it is the single most expensive component of the entire car to recycle, and the process is less established than that for more conventional lead-acid or NiCd batteries. Closed-loop recycling is not possible with current technology for Li-Ion and NiMH batteries and will not be for some years to come (though it has been possible for lead-acid batteries and to get all the Cd out of NiCd as well).
And it will be if the volume ramps up. The Nickel in the NiMH batteries is a good input for steel manufacturing, so it's not as if not having closed loop recycling is that bad.
Just as many people are SUBurban dwellers as well (such as myself). Suburban dwellers often drive a good portion of their commute on expressways (two-thirds of my daily commute by distance is "highway" driving). Furthermore, professional drivers (taxi operators, intra-city delivery drivers, etc) are exceptional cases of very high mileage AND mostly urban driving (typical drivers are almost never both).
The point here is that Prius' are very good for a category of driver that includes a lot of people. If you commute a lot and get stuck in traffic (which is a lot of suburban drivers) ar drive locally a fair bit, which is most of them, then the Prius beats a hummer. As a matter of fact, the only thing a Hummer is good for is offroading (H1 only) and draining your wallet.
I expect cab drivers to be orgasmic over the Prius - they'll make serious bucks driving those things around.
... of uniform density.
I make money so I can have more money so I can eventually live off of my investments. Gotta look at the final goal.
The commercial hummers (that they don't sell anymore) last forever. The H2 is not a hummer.
The batteries contain toxic materials and require a great deal of energy to produce.
The batteries at least are easily recycled and, should production ramp up, closed loop recycling is a real likelihood. To counter some of your examples, urban driving really plays to the Prius' strengths (which is where a lot of people live anyway), and cab drivers must absolutely love the things.
If you're managing money to make more money, you're doing it for the wrong reasons.
So making money is immoral? That's a laugh.
Despite what the nuclear industry tells us, building enough nuclear power stations to make a meaningful reduction in greenhouse gas emissions would cost trillions of dollars, create tens of thousands of tons of lethal high-level radioactive waste, contribute to further proliferation of nuclear weapons materials, and result in a Chernobyl-scale accident once every decade. Perhaps most significantly, it will squander the resources necessary to implement meaningful climate change solutions.
What a load of crap. Nuke plants that produce no weaponizable material are available, and they are something like 95% efficient = not much waste at all. Even Chernobyl wouldn't have been famous if they hadn't disabled several safeguards and run experiments on a live nuke plant; we in the west don't build archaic things like that anyway - the designs from the last 10-20 years are great and we need to start building them.
I've got one of those, too. 28 mpg no matter how hard you drive it.
Clinton's been out for 6 years. Go to hell.
Back in the days of WP5.1, it was 2 spaces typed or one in a word processor. That was even in a style guid I used.
The hell with your star trek toys. I want a Culture ship that's on good terms with me. Nothing says love like 20k lights and enough boom to erase a planet.
I work for a japanese company, so I'm really getting a kick out of these replies ... this is how bad information gets passed around.
Who the f*** decided that sentences on the Internet shall no longer be formatted with two spaces after a period?!
Um, duh. It's been that way since before the internet.
I guess I'm lucky - downtime is viewed seriously here, although it pales befor the cost of a security breach.