You just inserted your point of view. The point made by the AC (that Exxon Mobil is the single biggest source of tax revenue for the US Government [which by the way is NOT true]) remains irrelevant to topic of tax-subsidized energy.
And the taxes paid vs. subsidies actually are related, in a way. You see, Exxon pays income taxes in each country where it does business. Subsidies are strictly for drilling in the US, to encourage companies to do more business in the country. That not only results in more tax revenue from that company, it's also somewhat of a jobs program, since oil companies will drill in whatever country it makes the most economic sense, so various countries offer subsidies to encourage companies to develop their domestic resources, which requires local labor.
Yeah, they took the money....but they didn't take it then file for bankruptcy.
Semantically, that's true, but only because banks don't file for bankruptcy, they fail and the FDIC covers the depositors. The result is the same, though, and LOTS of banks receiving TARP funds did it.
I hate the knee jerk reaction that somehow Big Pharma is pushing vaccinations on the unwashed masses with help from the government. Most vaccinations are unprofitable especially with the risk of adverse events factored in. Companies would much rather you get sick and need treatment because a one-time shot doesn't make a lot of money. In fact, the government has to specifically create a liability fund to get companies to make vaccines for public use.
Oh, yea, it's a ludicrous reaction. We all know about Big Pharma's lobbying efforts for patents, and extended patents, protections from lawsuits, donations to Rick Perry who then mandated Gardacil to all school girls in Texas. But in this one instance, they are being just purely altruistic. How can anyone doubt it?
All coal and oil accumulated over the last 500000000 years is old inventory and must go now! This is a one-time offer, bound to end within 200 years of starting! Don't miss out!
Nah, there's enough to last much longer than that. In fact, there's probably just enough to get us to some feasible extraterrestrial industry, and possibly some seriously efficient alternatives to natural hydrocarbon fuels, or maybe just mining the abundant extraterrestrial hydrocarbons for a while instead.
Or we could just panic over some rampant speculation about the effects of actually using our resources, and all go back to living like dark-ages serfs while a few self-chosen leaders decide how to dole out the ever-dwindling resources to the masses now stuck on the earth rock until they all die out.
It there anyone in your opinion who would be qualified, equipped, and impartial enough to do an investigation and convince you that Michael Mann did nothing wrong?
I imagine that step #1 in any actual investigation would be to obtain all the research records from UVA. So far, only Cuccinelli has even tried, and UVA is resolutely resisting any effort by any outside party to access those records.
It there anyone in your opinion who would be qualified, equipped, and impartial enough to do an investigation and convince you that Michael Mann did nothing wrong?
Sure, there are plenty. John C. Dvorak comes to mind right away. There are plenty of others, too, without a livelyhood connected to promoting the agenda of politicians or multinational corporations.
Not only that, it's extremely easy to differentiate between inorganically sourced CO2 (volcanic) and organic. Organic CO2 will tend to have a bias against C-13, whereas volcanic will not.
You have over-simplified the research on that so much that your statement is actually wrong.
5.9's a pretty big earthquake for the East Coast, no? I'm surprised there wasn't more damage. Anyone know what magnitude the buildings are built to withstand?
(As far as cell/internet/land lines being down, that happens on the West Coast too, but it's just because everyone's trying to use them at the same time.)
They don't build anything here with earthquakes in mind. They build them to withstand hurricanes.
Downtown Richmond, here. Lots of rattling and shaking. Didn't see any damage, but it panicked quite a few people. The Dominion Power building and the Federal Reserve were evacuated for the better part of an hour.
Guess Verizon shouldn't have tried to fuck them over on contract negotiations.
If what they are offering is "being fucked over", then I wish my employer would do the same thing - I'd be much better off. I've been contributing for my health care premiums for at least 20 years, and I don't have unlimited sick leave either. Around here, if you're a "sub-par performer" for very long, you're out of a job. All Verizon wants to do is NOT give them raises. "fucked over"? Bring it on.
I guess racism doesn't exist because you don't see it.
I think I quite clearly acknowledged its existence, which makes this statement nothing but a straw man
Trotting out phrases like the "Great Melting Pot" shows that you may not be really qualified in any way to speak on the subject of racial tensions and problems.
What kind of a douchbag comment is that? Do you know the history of the phrase? Where it came from? How it propagated? The point is that the
world
has a very extensive history of racism, racial killing, genocide, race-based enslavement, and other atrocities. America is on the fore-front of breaking those trends and striving for racial fairness. It's the most progressive place in the world on that issue.
If determined to spout off a bunch of America-bashing butt-hurt crap, at least complain about some of the things that really suck about America, like her tendency to support dictators, engage in wars in place they have no business in, killing brown people, propagating draconian prohibition laws all over the world, financially raping countries through the IMF and the World Bank... I mean, there's plenty to complain about.
But claiming the U.S. is a lousy place to be a minority race, compared to the rest of the world, that's just bull crap.
In my experience, having lived both overseas and in the U.S. (in the Pacific NW and in the South), it's more likely that Americans are just less vocal about race in everyday conversation.
Translation: I can't bring myself to say anything good about the Great Melting Pot, so I'm going to make up some disingenuous bullcrap about how bad racism is in America, but it's just "hidden".
It's still bullcrap. There are very few places in the world where an obvious minority can go anywhere and be treated as fairly as everywhere else. That social stigma you mention is part of how that tolerance exhibits itself - other places don't even have that. Go into the some pubs in Denmark or France, and that group of the "wrong color" people would likely get kicked out. Best case is they get stared at and ignored by the wait staff until they have to just get up and leave.
You might expect that science, particularly American science, would be color-blind.
Isn't the US that country where race is generally considered a big deal, and everyone has a legal race in the census and so on? Why would I expect American anything to be color-blind?
As much as you might like to demonize American culture for it's flaws, especially the racism that still exists in some, it is far superior to most other countries in racial equality. You can't change everyone's attitude, but talk to anyone from anywhere else in the world that has spent some time in the U.S., and they will invariably tell you that racial discrimination is less of an issue than where they came from.
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You just inserted your point of view. The point made by the AC (that Exxon Mobil is the single biggest source of tax revenue for the US Government [which by the way is NOT true]) remains irrelevant to topic of tax-subsidized energy.
Truth is not a point-of-view.
Exxon paid more in taxes GLOBALLY than any other corporation, and gas taxes ARE the biggest source of federal tax revenue. There's more truth for you, although you're right about the original statement being inaccurate.
And the taxes paid vs. subsidies actually are related, in a way. You see, Exxon pays income taxes in each country where it does business. Subsidies are strictly for drilling in the US, to encourage companies to do more business in the country. That not only results in more tax revenue from that company, it's also somewhat of a jobs program, since oil companies will drill in whatever country it makes the most economic sense, so various countries offer subsidies to encourage companies to develop their domestic resources, which requires local labor.
Yeah, they took the money....but they didn't take it then file for bankruptcy.
Semantically, that's true, but only because banks don't file for bankruptcy, they fail and the FDIC covers the depositors. The result is the same, though, and LOTS of banks receiving TARP funds did it.
Irrelevant. They collect taxes from consumers and pass them on as a profits tax , not oil, just as any corporation is used to imposed regressive taxes .
Fixed that for you.
Just chalk it up to "cultural resistance to change".
How? Is there Oil on Mars?
No, but Titan is loaded with hydrocarbons...
I hate the knee jerk reaction that somehow Big Pharma is pushing vaccinations on the unwashed masses with help from the government. Most vaccinations are unprofitable especially with the risk of adverse events factored in. Companies would much rather you get sick and need treatment because a one-time shot doesn't make a lot of money. In fact, the government has to specifically create a liability fund to get companies to make vaccines for public use.
Oh, yea, it's a ludicrous reaction. We all know about Big Pharma's lobbying efforts for patents, and extended patents, protections from lawsuits, donations to Rick Perry who then mandated Gardacil to all school girls in Texas. But in this one instance, they are being just purely altruistic. How can anyone doubt it?
My science proving this fact is as sound as that used by those who claim immunizations has anything to do with it.
Really? I don't think the science is as cut-and-dried as the MSM tries to make it out.
The US would be the one pushing the rest of the world off of the bridge.
Nah, that would never fly. Where would they get slave labor and brown people to kill?
All coal and oil accumulated over the last 500000000 years is old inventory and must go now! This is a one-time offer, bound to end within 200 years of starting! Don't miss out!
Nah, there's enough to last much longer than that. In fact, there's probably just enough to get us to some feasible extraterrestrial industry, and possibly some seriously efficient alternatives to natural hydrocarbon fuels, or maybe just mining the abundant extraterrestrial hydrocarbons for a while instead.
Or we could just panic over some rampant speculation about the effects of actually using our resources, and all go back to living like dark-ages serfs while a few self-chosen leaders decide how to dole out the ever-dwindling resources to the masses now stuck on the earth rock until they all die out.
plus the fact that the entire world, except the US and Belize, uses it.
So if the rest of the world jumped off a bridge, you think that's a reason for the US and Belize to do the same?
The Science is IN
What exactly is supposed to be in those documents that's so damaging?
What documents?
Why on earth are you so defensive about letting people see documentation from a state-sponsored project?
You sound like a shill.
It there anyone in your opinion who would be qualified, equipped, and impartial enough to do an investigation and convince you that Michael Mann did nothing wrong?
I imagine that step #1 in any actual investigation would be to obtain all the research records from UVA. So far, only Cuccinelli has even tried, and UVA is resolutely resisting any effort by any outside party to access those records.
It there anyone in your opinion who would be qualified, equipped, and impartial enough to do an investigation and convince you that Michael Mann did nothing wrong?
Sure, there are plenty. John C. Dvorak comes to mind right away. There are plenty of others, too, without a livelyhood connected to promoting the agenda of politicians or multinational corporations.
Not only that, it's extremely easy to differentiate between inorganically sourced CO2 (volcanic) and organic. Organic CO2 will tend to have a bias against C-13, whereas volcanic will not.
You have over-simplified the research on that so much that your statement is actually wrong.
I'm sure this investigation is just as thorough and unaffected by politics as the SEC's investigation of mortgage bankers and Bernie Madoff.
5.9's a pretty big earthquake for the East Coast, no? I'm surprised there wasn't more damage. Anyone know what magnitude the buildings are built to withstand? (As far as cell/internet/land lines being down, that happens on the West Coast too, but it's just because everyone's trying to use them at the same time.)
They don't build anything here with earthquakes in mind. They build them to withstand hurricanes.
Downtown Richmond, here. Lots of rattling and shaking. Didn't see any damage, but it panicked quite a few people. The Dominion Power building and the Federal Reserve were evacuated for the better part of an hour.
Guess Verizon shouldn't have tried to fuck them over on contract negotiations.
If what they are offering is "being fucked over", then I wish my employer would do the same thing - I'd be much better off. I've been contributing for my health care premiums for at least 20 years, and I don't have unlimited sick leave either. Around here, if you're a "sub-par performer" for very long, you're out of a job. All Verizon wants to do is NOT give them raises. "fucked over"? Bring it on.
It's the new American Dream: "just gettin' by"
And what do you do for a living, exactly? More to the point, what do you do with your weekends? Thank a union member for that.
I wander around looking for free wi-fi places because the striking Verizon workers left me without Internet.
I think I quite clearly acknowledged its existence, which makes this statement nothing but a straw man
Trotting out phrases like the "Great Melting Pot" shows that you may not be really qualified in any way to speak on the subject of racial tensions and problems.
What kind of a douchbag comment is that? Do you know the history of the phrase? Where it came from? How it propagated? The point is that the
world
has a very extensive history of racism, racial killing, genocide, race-based enslavement, and other atrocities. America is on the fore-front of breaking those trends and striving for racial fairness. It's the most progressive place in the world on that issue.
If determined to spout off a bunch of America-bashing butt-hurt crap, at least complain about some of the things that really suck about America, like her tendency to support dictators, engage in wars in place they have no business in, killing brown people, propagating draconian prohibition laws all over the world, financially raping countries through the IMF and the World Bank... I mean, there's plenty to complain about.
But claiming the U.S. is a lousy place to be a minority race, compared to the rest of the world, that's just bull crap.
In my experience, having lived both overseas and in the U.S. (in the Pacific NW and in the South), it's more likely that Americans are just less vocal about race in everyday conversation.
Translation: I can't bring myself to say anything good about the Great Melting Pot, so I'm going to make up some disingenuous bullcrap about how bad racism is in America, but it's just "hidden".
It's still bullcrap. There are very few places in the world where an obvious minority can go anywhere and be treated as fairly as everywhere else. That social stigma you mention is part of how that tolerance exhibits itself - other places don't even have that. Go into the some pubs in Denmark or France, and that group of the "wrong color" people would likely get kicked out. Best case is they get stared at and ignored by the wait staff until they have to just get up and leave.
You might expect that science, particularly American science, would be color-blind.
Isn't the US that country where race is generally considered a big deal, and everyone has a legal race in the census and so on? Why would I expect American anything to be color-blind?
As much as you might like to demonize American culture for it's flaws, especially the racism that still exists in some, it is far superior to most other countries in racial equality. You can't change everyone's attitude, but talk to anyone from anywhere else in the world that has spent some time in the U.S., and they will invariably tell you that racial discrimination is less of an issue than where they came from.
Your rant would be perfectly understandable if he got an award from the IEEE. He didn't. He got a Young Naturalist Award
So he's a nudist?