If they want to reduce electricity consumption, why not raise the tax on electricity until people cut back however much they want?
You're actually asking the question? Which of these political statements is more likely to be a votewinner?
"I'm going to raise taxes so people use less energy, to help the environment." "I'm going to promote the use of green technologies such as CF lightbulbs, to help the environment."
It always makes me recoil in perplexity when I hear someone saying that a non-mutilated penis is a 'gross looking wiener'. It's a kind of Only In America statement. Think about if it was customary to cut off all girls' hair all the time; society would be saying girls with hair were 'gross'. Does that sound retarded? It's just as retarded as the circumcised club having a problem with a natural penis. And be in NO doubt; the rest of the world thinks you're weird for saying that. It's an American attitude.
1) Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the UK parliament, nothing to do with the US. 2) He didn't succeed, and was tortured, found guilty, hanged, beheaded, and his head placed on a spike. 3) The people of the country generally celebrated, convinced by the government that he was a meddlesome traitor.
Maybe your point was that he was unsuccessful, but just in case it wasn't, I thought I'd say so.
We have DNA, fingerprintes, footprints, retina scans, facial thermal imaging scans, picture photos, and voice scans. We've used race, sex, hair color, eye color, height, and wieght when searching for criminals or posting limited ID traits on DLs.
Well, that's one hella unwieldy composite primary key, and still not guaranteed to be 100% unique! Actually, that would apply were it not for DNA, which I think probably is primary key-like in humans.
Someone introduced a few rabbits to Australia so he could shoot them. There's a few million now, even after myxomatosis [wikipedia.org] was used to try and control them.
If we are going to have a market driven system, this is arguably the best way to do it
Howso? Surely the risk is just displaced from the company doing something potentially stupid to the company/consumer(s) using the services of said company; no personal liability, and when the bank account runs dry, the customers are left in the lurch?
Ethanol is carbon neutral, the CO2 released by burning it is equal to the CO2 that would have been released by the decomposition or digestion of the plants that it is made from.
OK, but was that plant that we grew getting 100% of its CO2 from the air? Mightn't some of it come from the soil, and if we hadn't grown the plant in the first place it wouldn't have been released at all?
You said it - city. And I mean 'city' by regular definitions (say, more than 200,000 citizens), not weird North American ('any conurbation of 2 or more houses'). Look at this page, and discover that the large majority of conurbations in this province have 1 or 2 ISPs only.
A religion asserts inherently unprovable ideas as facts, and often tries to influence the rest of society to fall into line with its views.
Scientology does the same. It IS a religion. The mistake is arbitrarily trying to distinguish it because it's clearly run by a bunch of evil crooks. If anything, other religions should be derided as much as Scientology because of their similarity to it.
It is not the state's place to say "Ewww", or "But God says...". It is the state's place to serve its citizens.
Agreed. But things changed with McCarthy in the 1950s, and the government is now a lot more Christian because of it. Try and get the motto changed back. 'God' has NO PLACE in the US motto or Pledge of Allegiance.
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If they want to reduce electricity consumption, why not raise the tax on electricity until people cut back however much they want?
You're actually asking the question? Which of these political statements is more likely to be a votewinner?
"I'm going to raise taxes so people use less energy, to help the environment."
"I'm going to promote the use of green technologies such as CF lightbulbs, to help the environment."
Maybe not Tom Cruise levels of brand value, but hey, at least Buzz Lightyear isn't ever going to freak out and join the Scientologists on you.
That could be a great plotline for Toy Story 4.
Yep. It was actually about 20% of the adult population, or 35% of the electorate.
You could start a counter petition.
Someone did.
Looks like there aren't so many supporters of the government's plan.
Yeah, maybe we could even use that name and register a domain like digg.com, then implement said system!
Aha, I think I'm finally starting to understand the point of the e-petitions site!
It's a mailing list for people who don't agree with Blair (& co)'s policies to be sent propaganda that might change one or two minds. Nothing more.
If they speak English, why aren't you calling them 'Ireland'??
It always makes me recoil in perplexity when I hear someone saying that a non-mutilated penis is a 'gross looking wiener'. It's a kind of Only In America statement. Think about if it was customary to cut off all girls' hair all the time; society would be saying girls with hair were 'gross'. Does that sound retarded? It's just as retarded as the circumcised club having a problem with a natural penis. And be in NO doubt; the rest of the world thinks you're weird for saying that. It's an American attitude.
1) Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the UK parliament, nothing to do with the US.
2) He didn't succeed, and was tortured, found guilty, hanged, beheaded, and his head placed on a spike.
3) The people of the country generally celebrated, convinced by the government that he was a meddlesome traitor.
Maybe your point was that he was unsuccessful, but just in case it wasn't, I thought I'd say so.
And Zimbabwe.
... but we've also vastly increased our 'bang' usage to more than make up for it.
and with my friends while we discuss media matters (virtually weekly at a local bar).
That must be one rockin' bar!
We have DNA, fingerprintes, footprints, retina scans, facial thermal imaging scans, picture photos, and voice scans. We've used race, sex, hair color, eye color, height, and wieght when searching for criminals or posting limited ID traits on DLs.
Well, that's one hella unwieldy composite primary key, and still not guaranteed to be 100% unique! Actually, that would apply were it not for DNA, which I think probably is primary key-like in humans.
Someone introduced a few rabbits to Australia so he could shoot them. There's a few million now, even after myxomatosis [wikipedia.org] was used to try and control them.
Careful, there. That bandwidth costs money.
IDE is horrible. I prey for the day when there is nothing but SATA optical drives.
If we are going to have a market driven system, this is arguably the best way to do it
Howso? Surely the risk is just displaced from the company doing something potentially stupid to the company/consumer(s) using the services of said company; no personal liability, and when the bank account runs dry, the customers are left in the lurch?
Ethanol is carbon neutral, the CO2 released by burning it is equal to the CO2 that would have been released by the decomposition or digestion of the plants that it is made from.
OK, but was that plant that we grew getting 100% of its CO2 from the air? Mightn't some of it come from the soil, and if we hadn't grown the plant in the first place it wouldn't have been released at all?
Any numbers for an Athlon 64? I just bought a 3800+ single core and would like to be made really excited about it. :-P
Also which of these chips are single, and which are dual, and which are quad cores?
What's the point of dual and quad core, anyway? Anyone figured out why it's better than just having 2/4 CPUs?
Yeah, but he's working out really hard to get rid of them.
You said it - city. And I mean 'city' by regular definitions (say, more than 200,000 citizens), not weird North American ('any conurbation of 2 or more houses'). Look at this page, and discover that the large majority of conurbations in this province have 1 or 2 ISPs only.
However, this is more a case of TELUS flexing their political muscle than Harper flexing his non-existent political muscle.
It's not a muscle; it just fills up with blood.
When was the last time that a Christian church was prosecuted for preaching intolerance?
Nick Griffin, the Christian leader of the BNP, got prosecuted for airing 'intolerant' views about Islam, amongst other things.
Why do you need to belong to a religion not to condemn anyone?
A religion asserts inherently unprovable ideas as facts, and often tries to influence the rest of society to fall into line with its views.
Scientology does the same. It IS a religion. The mistake is arbitrarily trying to distinguish it because it's clearly run by a bunch of evil crooks. If anything, other religions should be derided as much as Scientology because of their similarity to it.
It is not the state's place to say "Ewww", or "But God says...". It is the state's place to serve its citizens.
Agreed. But things changed with McCarthy in the 1950s, and the government is now a lot more Christian because of it. Try and get the motto changed back. 'God' has NO PLACE in the US motto or Pledge of Allegiance.