So by that logic, a nuclear power that uses its weapons cannot be trusted, right?
The logic is that only first-world democracies can be trusted with nuclear weapons (or anything including the right to exist). [I'm not happy about Pakistan, Russia, China, and India.] Leftists and third-world peasants always complain about a "double standard" on such things, but there is only one standard — totalitarian dictatorships are bullshit. Theocratic totalitarian dictatorships are particularly untrustworthy and thoroughly corrupt third-world so-called democracies are almost as bad.
But don't worry leftists; I'm quite confident that Iran will get The Bomb in the next few years because nobody's going to stop them. I have assume that they learned from Iraq and have some of their fissile-enrichment capability secretly buried 500 feet below hospitals. We'll be getting that nuclear war you guys want so badly.
So what? Americans already pay five times as much as the rest of the world for sugar because of 18th-century political corruption. Now they'll just pay twenty times as much.
I believe he's trying to say that our current system of having a basically never-ending series of localized conflicts is preferred over our old system of having a major earth-shattering conflict every 25 years or so.
Post-hoc fallacy. All of the current in the world conflicts involve third-world shitholes with corrupt officials and are coincidental to the rather benign posturing of the major powers against each other. Third-world shitholes are volatile from start to finish.
The primary reason there hasn't been a WWIII is global trade. You don't need to invade the other guy's turf to get his resources if he will dig it out, put it on a ship, and send it to you for a reasonable fee. "When goods cannot cross borders, armies will." — Frédéric Bastiat
Also, I would imagine that for something to be libelous, it needs to be specific. "http://my.boss.is/a/stupid/fucking/bitch/i/hope/she/eats/shit/and/dies" is equivalent in content to "I dislike my boss". Good for you. This is a matter of opinion. You need to say something that could fool a reasonable person.
One could imagine a cell-phone application that tells you the color at a crosshair in the camera input in a couple of different color models and using closest-match simple words like "pink" or "reddish pink". Then you could find out the true color of something just by whipping out your cell phone.
In practice, they are. Faith always makes bold pronouncements that are actually falsifiable. When science eventually gets around to falsifying them, religious folks dig in their heels and start throwing fire bombs. They finally give in centuries later and claim that they have always been right.
some great men of science were also men of faith.
These great men were steeped in the ignorance of their times. If they were alive today, almost all of them would be atheists.
The electronic cop makes him go to court to contest a witness that he can't even confront
Sure you can confront this witness. The prosecutor will be overjoyed to play the video recording in front of the jury. What you're objecting to is this witness actually being reliable.
A rabid unshaven hippie environmentalist might bring notice to the fact that this is just spending more money propping up coal, rather than investing the money directly into pure green energy
The thing about pure solar energy is that you have to build two power plants anyway — the solar one for when the sun is shining and the conventional one for when it isn't. You have to be able to handle the peak load when all variables are pessimal. People don't like brown-outs.
What this idea does is put both plants into one, reusing many expensive plant components and reducing coal consumption when the sun is shining while in no way impairing the capability to meet peak consumption when the sun isn't shining. Really, this is the most effective way to implement solar power: to augment some other heating agent. Then you're only building 1.3 power plants instead of 2.
EV1s to its selection of carefully-screened lessees... Although the car could not be purchased outright, its MSRP was quoted at $34,000.
These people were carefully screened beta testers. The EV1 actually cost $120k–$150k per unit, so GM took quite a bath on these cars. The Movie intentionally neglects to mention this fact, thereby invalidating its entire thesis. I for one would love to buy a $150k car for $34k — in fact, I'll take all you have!
What's with our obsession to praise and reward those who ultimately just take advantage of us?
Far better the world would be if he had been a whiny no-op like yourself, never took any risks, never produced anything worthwhile, never created thousands of jobs, never paid millions in taxes.
One thing Medicare does quite effectively is drive down the costs of care.
Private insurance inherently creates a price spiral. First there is the 20% profit that that insurance companies skim off the top -- that is dead weight that is completely lost to the healthcare system. Then there is the profit motive of both doctors and insurance companies. Care providers can raise their fees because insurance will pay for it, and insurers make more money if their premiums are high. This viscous circle causes Americans to pay twice as much as they should of the quality of care they receive. And they're proud to do so, since this vast sum that comes off their paycheques isn't specifically a "tax", even though it functions in exactly the same way.
So your theory is that obese smokers are just incredibly unlucky?
I agree with the rest of your post, but the "unlucky" part is nonsense. Better to say that "Some medical problems happen by chance, and they could strike you. What will you do if your private insurer doesn't feel like paying? Your choices are bankruptcy or death."
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Exactly what did they expect a Canadian ISP to do with a DMCA takedown notice?
The logic is that only first-world democracies can be trusted with nuclear weapons (or anything including the right to exist). [I'm not happy about Pakistan, Russia, China, and India.] Leftists and third-world peasants always complain about a "double standard" on such things, but there is only one standard — totalitarian dictatorships are bullshit. Theocratic totalitarian dictatorships are particularly untrustworthy and thoroughly corrupt third-world so-called democracies are almost as bad.
But don't worry leftists; I'm quite confident that Iran will get The Bomb in the next few years because nobody's going to stop them. I have assume that they learned from Iraq and have some of their fissile-enrichment capability secretly buried 500 feet below hospitals. We'll be getting that nuclear war you guys want so badly.
Only another 42,163.9995 km to go to use this to send solar power from geosynchronous orbit.
Tacit collusion. 'Nuff said.
Why wouldn't they fill it with hydrogen?
So what? Americans already pay five times as much as the rest of the world for sugar because of 18th-century political corruption. Now they'll just pay twenty times as much.
Post-hoc fallacy. All of the current in the world conflicts involve third-world shitholes with corrupt officials and are coincidental to the rather benign posturing of the major powers against each other. Third-world shitholes are volatile from start to finish.
The primary reason there hasn't been a WWIII is global trade. You don't need to invade the other guy's turf to get his resources if he will dig it out, put it on a ship, and send it to you for a reasonable fee. "When goods cannot cross borders, armies will." — Frédéric Bastiat
Instead of cursive writing, they should be teaching school kids keyboarding, which is something they will use in real life.
Also, I would imagine that for something to be libelous, it needs to be specific. "http://my.boss.is/a/stupid/fucking/bitch/i/hope/she/eats/shit/and/dies" is equivalent in content to "I dislike my boss". Good for you. This is a matter of opinion. You need to say something that could fool a reasonable person.
One could imagine a cell-phone application that tells you the color at a crosshair in the camera input in a couple of different color models and using closest-match simple words like "pink" or "reddish pink". Then you could find out the true color of something just by whipping out your cell phone.
It seems to me that gasoline taxes cover this situation adequately without Big Brother being a back-seat driver.
In practice, they are. Faith always makes bold pronouncements that are actually falsifiable. When science eventually gets around to falsifying them, religious folks dig in their heels and start throwing fire bombs. They finally give in centuries later and claim that they have always been right.
These great men were steeped in the ignorance of their times. If they were alive today, almost all of them would be atheists.
So it's not like ISO.
Sure you can confront this witness. The prosecutor will be overjoyed to play the video recording in front of the jury. What you're objecting to is this witness actually being reliable.
“When goods cannot cross borders, armies will.” — Frédéric Bastiat (1801–1850)
That's why I plant to commit suicide on my 99-trillionth birthday.
The thing about pure solar energy is that you have to build two power plants anyway — the solar one for when the sun is shining and the conventional one for when it isn't. You have to be able to handle the peak load when all variables are pessimal. People don't like brown-outs.
What this idea does is put both plants into one, reusing many expensive plant components and reducing coal consumption when the sun is shining while in no way impairing the capability to meet peak consumption when the sun isn't shining. Really, this is the most effective way to implement solar power: to augment some other heating agent. Then you're only building 1.3 power plants instead of 2.
These people were carefully screened beta testers. The EV1 actually cost $120k–$150k per unit, so GM took quite a bath on these cars. The Movie intentionally neglects to mention this fact, thereby invalidating its entire thesis. I for one would love to buy a $150k car for $34k — in fact, I'll take all you have!
I think the time would be better spent teaching him how to use a calculator.
Far better the world would be if he had been a whiny no-op like yourself, never took any risks, never produced anything worthwhile, never created thousands of jobs, never paid millions in taxes.
Worse than this, the subversion isn't even consistent. How many megabits per second is your Ethernet? Those are decimal.
I think I've isolated your problem...
You forgot to mention your crushing public and personal debt.
Private insurance inherently creates a price spiral. First there is the 20% profit that that insurance companies skim off the top -- that is dead weight that is completely lost to the healthcare system. Then there is the profit motive of both doctors and insurance companies. Care providers can raise their fees because insurance will pay for it, and insurers make more money if their premiums are high. This viscous circle causes Americans to pay twice as much as they should of the quality of care they receive. And they're proud to do so, since this vast sum that comes off their paycheques isn't specifically a "tax", even though it functions in exactly the same way.
So your theory is that obese smokers are just incredibly unlucky?
I agree with the rest of your post, but the "unlucky" part is nonsense. Better to say that "Some medical problems happen by chance, and they could strike you. What will you do if your private insurer doesn't feel like paying? Your choices are bankruptcy or death."