Nuclear waste is the ultimate FUD. It's not nearly as dangerous as anti-nuke zealots want you to think. The really nasty stuff has very short half-lives (measure in days). The long-term stuff is so low level you can just blow it out a smokestack and let the wind spread it to harmless concentrations.
I don't see the value in attaching the emotional tag of old-growth to trees.
It's called a smokescreen or a strawman.
You see, most people see huge swaths of forest in the Appalchians, the Rockies and the Pacific Northwest, so the envirofascists (yes, it's a correct usage, look up what fascism actually is), can't sell deforestation. So instead, they create a new kind of forest called an "old-growth" forest that they can make as rare as they want by changing the definition.
That then become the crisis around which they can rally money and power.
It's the same trick they pulled with the Spotted Owl. They called it endangered and shut down logging in all these areas in Northern California and Oregon. Turns out they deliberately misrepresented the owl's habitat. It was so rare in heavy forests because that's not its natural habitat. Turns out the Spotted Owl is common as squirrels in suburbs, where the tree density is lighter.
Environmentalism has never been about the environment, it's always been about fighting capitalism.
The next time you see a Green, talk with him a while. It won't take long until you crack the shell and see a Red.
There's a large difference between protesting a war unilaterally begun under obviously false pretenses, and not being willing to fight for anything at all.
No U.N. does not equal unilateral.
WMD was not the only reason given for the attack on Iraq (read the actual transcript of the State of the Union address instead of your DNC talking points).
Iraq is a battle in the war. The war is on terror.
Anyone who still doesn't think AL Qaeda and Iraq have links after the beheading of a kidnapped American and the Jordanian bomb plot is self-delusional.
The patriotism Mill describes is the degraded patriotism of the man who cries out that it is the patriotic duty not to fight, no matter the cause.
It is better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. -Winston Churchill
You mean, until some dictator kills you and takes the device so he can use it to make fortresses and walls around his cities, and then attacks his weaker neighbors so he can rule over them?
Wars are also fought for power. Some humans just love lording it over others.
if only the nasty Warmongers (or Americans or Jews or Capitalists or whoever you blame) would go away, the world would return to Eden-like bliss.
And if that isn't the seed for a nice pogrom at some future date, I don't know what is.
Political ideology is a circle. Move far enough left or right, and you wind up at the same place: Blowing things up and killing people. You just do it for different reasons.
And only a moron would think that Arafat couldn't shut the terrorist attacks down within a month if he was serious about it.
Of course, then those filthy Jews would still be in Israel.
Make no mistake about it. When you hear someone criticize Israeli policies regarding the Palestinians, you are listening to a jew-hater.
Arafat runs the Palestinians, so anyone who excuses him and targets Israel as the problem does so because they hate Israel, and the only reason to hate Israel is because it's full of Jews. No other reason. But the anti-semite can spew his vitriol by cloaking it in a drapery of human rights and opposition to Israel.
Or you can say things like: We need to spend more money funding a government-controlled and run education system so we can have people who can think for themselves and be free and independent from government propaganda and influence.
And then, those "educated" people will think the phrase: "We must defend ourselves against people who want to kill us..." is identical to the phrase: "We must kill these people..."
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling, which thinks that nothing is worth war, is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertion of better men than himself.
Hull breach, nothing. How about putting the hull out when it catches fire?
Anyone remember the asinine decision the Brits made to build their ships out of Aluminum? During the Faulklands war, an exocet missile hit one and the hull ignited. The ship was a total loss.
The only good thing that came from that is it shut up the morons in America who wanted us to convert our ships to aluminum hulls as well.
Um, America buys oil on the world market at the same price as everyone else.
If you mean gasoline is cheaper, the answer to that is simple. We don't tax the snot out of it like other nations do, and we have a good infrastructure for getting it to the gas stations.
Although that is changing rapidly with the constantly changing region-specific formulation requirements, and the environmentalists successfully shutting down every attempt to build new refineries for the past 20 years.
Radiation of heat is not uniform. A layer of suspended aerosols will radiate most of its energy back into the atmosphere ABOVE the layer and into space, because the temperature ABOVE the deck is lower than below the deck.
Even with a dark layer, the net effect is a surface cooling.
It's pretty easy to design an experiment to prove this.
Get three bulb thermometers and put them in plexiglass containers.
Leave the first one alone. Cover the bulb of the second in soot. Leave the third bulb uncovered, but fill the container with cigarette smoke (aerolosized soot).
Shine an incandescent light on all three. See which one's temperature rises the most and the fastest.
Guess what, it won't be the bulb in the smoke-filled chamber.
Unless, ofcourse, the particles are thrown up by nuclear war. Then, of course, we get a winter that kills off all life because all the warmth from the sun is blocked.
However, if the particles are thrown up by automobiles and industry, we get accelerated global warming because all that dust is trapping heat in the atmosphere like a giant blanket.
The answer, obviously, then, is to engage in small-scale nuclear wars on a regular basis to produce mini nuclear winters that will balance all the global warming we're causing.
Tomorrow, environmental scientists will announce that black is really white, except when it is black.
Do you even comprehend the stuff you are writing? 4000 ACRES!?! to meet EIGHT percent?!? of the plant's daily operation?!
150 square MILES to power ONE factory?!
Do you have any idea of the maintenance cost on something like that?
Do you have any idea of the environmental impact of that? (Deserts are extremely fragile ecosystems)
Do you have any idea of just how stupid you look promoting something like that as an actual, viable solution?
Tell you what. I'll use ONE unit from the Vogtle nuclear power plant, which sits on less than a hundred acres in the middle of beautiful countryside to power SEVEN THOUSAND and SIXTY-TWO Gary Works steel mills.
They just made the mistake of thinking the word Library kind of self-documented its purpose. They forgot to realize that they're dealing with people who think vi is intuitive and makes sense.
Exactly. Correctly prepared fugu leaves a trace amount of the toxin present. It's a nerve toxin, so when you eat, it causes a numbness and tingling around the lips and tongue.
That's the part about the meal that people like.
The toxin is heat sensitive, so the key is to cook the fish long enough to kill enough toxin so that you get the desired effect without killing yourself.
Why are these the only approved OSs: Windows XP Professional/Windows XP Home Edition/ Windows 2000 Professional/Windows Millennium Edition/ Windows 98 Second Edition
Because those are the only operating systems that Sony computers ship with.
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Nuclear waste is the ultimate FUD. It's not nearly as dangerous as anti-nuke zealots want you to think. The really nasty stuff has very short half-lives (measure in days). The long-term stuff is so low level you can just blow it out a smokestack and let the wind spread it to harmless concentrations.
I don't see the value in attaching the emotional tag of old-growth to trees.
It's called a smokescreen or a strawman.
You see, most people see huge swaths of forest in the Appalchians, the Rockies and the Pacific Northwest, so the envirofascists (yes, it's a correct usage, look up what fascism actually is), can't sell deforestation. So instead, they create a new kind of forest called an "old-growth" forest that they can make as rare as they want by changing the definition.
That then become the crisis around which they can rally money and power.
It's the same trick they pulled with the Spotted Owl. They called it endangered and shut down logging in all these areas in Northern California and Oregon. Turns out they deliberately misrepresented the owl's habitat. It was so rare in heavy forests because that's not its natural habitat. Turns out the Spotted Owl is common as squirrels in suburbs, where the tree density is lighter.
Environmentalism has never been about the environment, it's always been about fighting capitalism.
The next time you see a Green, talk with him a while. It won't take long until you crack the shell and see a Red.
Like a cow even has a clue. News flash for you, Mr. city boy. Cows are about the dumbest animals to walk the Earth.
Nobody is stopping you from doing just that.
Why is it that enviro/vegan types are so dead set on telling everyone else how they should live?
It's because they're elitist, and their way is the morally superior way in their minds.
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The tyranny that makes us feel morally superior is the tyranny we embrace
Something's off with the continuity of your 2nd and 3rd points.
See the first part of point 4.
There's still no evidence that Saddam is even linked to Al-Qaeda.
See the second part of point 4.
Yeah, right. Let's worry that an ANDROID in a group of primitive people might violate the Prime Directive by showing them what fire really is.
A man can kill with a shovel, too. Just because you give him one doesn't mean he's going to use it to till a field.
You're naivete on human nature would be sad if it didn't result in people getting killed.
You mean, until some dictator kills you and takes the device so he can use it to make fortresses and walls around his cities, and then attacks his weaker neighbors so he can rule over them?
Wars are also fought for power. Some humans just love lording it over others.
if only the nasty Warmongers (or Americans or Jews or Capitalists or whoever you blame) would go away, the world would return to Eden-like bliss.
And if that isn't the seed for a nice pogrom at some future date, I don't know what is.
Political ideology is a circle. Move far enough left or right, and you wind up at the same place: Blowing things up and killing people. You just do it for different reasons.
And only a moron would think that Arafat couldn't shut the terrorist attacks down within a month if he was serious about it.
Of course, then those filthy Jews would still be in Israel.
Make no mistake about it. When you hear someone criticize Israeli policies regarding the Palestinians, you are listening to a jew-hater.
Arafat runs the Palestinians, so anyone who excuses him and targets Israel as the problem does so because they hate Israel, and the only reason to hate Israel is because it's full of Jews. No other reason. But the anti-semite can spew his vitriol by cloaking it in a drapery of human rights and opposition to Israel.
Or you can say things like: We need to spend more money funding a government-controlled and run education system so we can have people who can think for themselves and be free and independent from government propaganda and influence.
And then, those "educated" people will think the phrase: "We must defend ourselves against people who want to kill us..." is identical to the phrase: "We must kill these people..."
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling, which thinks that nothing is worth war, is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertion of better men than himself.
- John Stuart Mill
Hull breach, nothing. How about putting the hull out when it catches fire?
Anyone remember the asinine decision the Brits made to build their ships out of Aluminum? During the Faulklands war, an exocet missile hit one and the hull ignited. The ship was a total loss.
The only good thing that came from that is it shut up the morons in America who wanted us to convert our ships to aluminum hulls as well.
Um, America buys oil on the world market at the same price as everyone else.
If you mean gasoline is cheaper, the answer to that is simple. We don't tax the snot out of it like other nations do, and we have a good infrastructure for getting it to the gas stations.
Although that is changing rapidly with the constantly changing region-specific formulation requirements, and the environmentalists successfully shutting down every attempt to build new refineries for the past 20 years.
Radiation of heat is not uniform. A layer of suspended aerosols will radiate most of its energy back into the atmosphere ABOVE the layer and into space, because the temperature ABOVE the deck is lower than below the deck.
Even with a dark layer, the net effect is a surface cooling.
It's pretty easy to design an experiment to prove this.
Get three bulb thermometers and put them in plexiglass containers.
Leave the first one alone. Cover the bulb of the second in soot. Leave the third bulb uncovered, but fill the container with cigarette smoke (aerolosized soot).
Shine an incandescent light on all three. See which one's temperature rises the most and the fastest.
Guess what, it won't be the bulb in the smoke-filled chamber.
Unless, ofcourse, the particles are thrown up by nuclear war. Then, of course, we get a winter that kills off all life because all the warmth from the sun is blocked.
However, if the particles are thrown up by automobiles and industry, we get accelerated global warming because all that dust is trapping heat in the atmosphere like a giant blanket.
The answer, obviously, then, is to engage in small-scale nuclear wars on a regular basis to produce mini nuclear winters that will balance all the global warming we're causing.
Tomorrow, environmental scientists will announce that black is really white, except when it is black.
Easy. Water vapor is the most powerful greenhouse gas known. Way more powerful than Carbon Dioxide.
Do you even comprehend the stuff you are writing? 4000 ACRES!?! to meet EIGHT percent?!? of the plant's daily operation?!
150 square MILES to power ONE factory?!
Do you have any idea of the maintenance cost on something like that?
Do you have any idea of the environmental impact of that? (Deserts are extremely fragile ecosystems)
Do you have any idea of just how stupid you look promoting something like that as an actual, viable solution?
Tell you what. I'll use ONE unit from the Vogtle nuclear power plant, which sits on less than a hundred acres in the middle of beautiful countryside to power SEVEN THOUSAND and SIXTY-TWO Gary Works steel mills.
They just made the mistake of thinking the word Library kind of self-documented its purpose. They forgot to realize that they're dealing with people who think vi is intuitive and makes sense.
It should go where the OS X file structure guidelines dictates it should go, or don't bother making an OS X package.
Exactly. Correctly prepared fugu leaves a trace amount of the toxin present. It's a nerve toxin, so when you eat, it causes a numbness and tingling around the lips and tongue.
That's the part about the meal that people like.
The toxin is heat sensitive, so the key is to cook the fish long enough to kill enough toxin so that you get the desired effect without killing yourself.
Choice is a good thing.
No, meaningful choice is a good thing. Just throwing a bunch of crap out there so people can have something to choose from is stupid.
You mean like this?
Why are these the only approved OSs:
Windows XP Professional/Windows XP Home Edition/ Windows 2000 Professional/Windows Millennium Edition/ Windows 98 Second Edition
Because those are the only operating systems that Sony computers ship with.