You are simply out of your mind. In the USA, someone who is gravely ill or injured has a legal right to go to an emergency room and receive treatment. You have not been to the USA, and yet you try to tell us what it's like based on what some liar told you! I have been to New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, Dallas, Boston, and other large cities and have yet to see a homeless person dying in the street. I commend cayenne for politely responding to your ridiculous arguments.
Everybody that returns from visiting the US have said the same thing to me - the most enduring impression they had was that of extreme poverty with homeless people sick and dying in the street while others drive by in cars the size of small apartments.
Those are pretty much lies, even the parts that weren't supposed to exaggerations. But I would like to note that those huge cities with all the homeless people are nearly all run by left-wing politicians who support the same social programs Europeans do.
What were you supposed to be arguing for, again? Unemployment benefits, or retirement benefits? If your argument is, "When you're out of work, it's tough," that's a no-brainer. I have been out of work, but using that fact to support an argument about government programs is simply an argument from authority. Maybe people shouldn't work at Wal-Mart stocking shelves their entire lives; I believe that as humans, we should strive to progress.
This is why the left-right political ideology simply doesn't work. People called "W" a right-winger, when he greatly increased the size of government and added social programs like prescription benefits. Calling that "right wing" is simply childish. The idea of a government strength scale based on Aristotelian/Platonic ideas-- from anarchy, to democracy, to republicanism, to oligarchy, to totalitarianism-- is far more realistic and brings the M.O. of politicians into sharp focus.
Afghanistan was divvied up among a half dozen warlords and the Taliban. That's not stable. Oh, and don't expect any kind of strong military response from Obama unless it's against our own citizens.
Fissionables are much smaller in volume and not liquid. Not really a fair comparison. Nuclear power plants are run by the private sector and (rarely) have issues; nuclear subs roam the ocean all the time and don't "spill" their fuel.
You misspelled "Fannie Mae" as "AIG", there. The Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac failures all got bigger bonuses than the people at AIG who worked for $1 last year. Oh, BTW, Barney Frank is still collecting his paycheck.
It's too bad you ruined a good post with your hyperbole in the fifth paragraph. "Oil" companies are recreating themselves as energy companies and have been for years. We won't achieve anything by attacking them. When you see the pork in federal spending, you see money thrown at everything but new drilling. If you were really concerned about energy independence, you would demand that we drill here to replace the foreign oil at the SAME TIME we were working on alternate energy.
The Democratic party won't let them declare bankruptcy because that would result in huge layoffs and loss of pensions-- and who do the unions vote for, again?
It's embarrassing that on a supposedly nerdly site, we have this kind of sarcastic, ignorant comment about GM when any geek knows that technology gets cheaper over time. The original Mac was far more expensive than most of today's PCs, even before you adjust for inflation. Yet, the average Slashdotter knows that it was groundbreaking in several ways and (except for the anti-Mac crowd) wouldn't dare suggest that it was stupid because it was slower and cost more than a new Dell.
Slightly OT, but why is it that people call Americans a bunch of perverted Puritans when the Japanese have laws explicitly banning images of genitalia, thus spawning tentacle and bukkake?
I don't know. You might ask why they would abduct young Japanese? Or whether they are bothered by Japan's publicly expressed concerns about N. Korea's nuclear program?
Higher load means more reactors may need to be built, it generates more radioactive waste, heats up more water, raises the risk of accident, etc.
The waste doesn't happen until the reactor is decommissioned; and it's encased in a rather overblown, safe way. Heating up water? So the environmentalists are worried about accelerating entropy, now? Oh, and thanks to "environmentalists", no new reactors have been built in the USA for decades; no need to worry about that!
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Too bad most of the immigrants are her illegally and contribute little or nothing to social security.
You are simply out of your mind. In the USA, someone who is gravely ill or injured has a legal right to go to an emergency room and receive treatment. You have not been to the USA, and yet you try to tell us what it's like based on what some liar told you! I have been to New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, Dallas, Boston, and other large cities and have yet to see a homeless person dying in the street. I commend cayenne for politely responding to your ridiculous arguments.
Those are pretty much lies, even the parts that weren't supposed to exaggerations. But I would like to note that those huge cities with all the homeless people are nearly all run by left-wing politicians who support the same social programs Europeans do.
What were you supposed to be arguing for, again? Unemployment benefits, or retirement benefits? If your argument is, "When you're out of work, it's tough," that's a no-brainer. I have been out of work, but using that fact to support an argument about government programs is simply an argument from authority. Maybe people shouldn't work at Wal-Mart stocking shelves their entire lives; I believe that as humans, we should strive to progress.
This is why the left-right political ideology simply doesn't work. People called "W" a right-winger, when he greatly increased the size of government and added social programs like prescription benefits. Calling that "right wing" is simply childish. The idea of a government strength scale based on Aristotelian/Platonic ideas-- from anarchy, to democracy, to republicanism, to oligarchy, to totalitarianism-- is far more realistic and brings the M.O. of politicians into sharp focus.
Uh oh! Don't want to tick off the blue helmets!
Afghanistan was divvied up among a half dozen warlords and the Taliban. That's not stable. Oh, and don't expect any kind of strong military response from Obama unless it's against our own citizens.
Fissionables are much smaller in volume and not liquid. Not really a fair comparison. Nuclear power plants are run by the private sector and (rarely) have issues; nuclear subs roam the ocean all the time and don't "spill" their fuel.
You misspelled "Fannie Mae" as "AIG", there. The Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac failures all got bigger bonuses than the people at AIG who worked for $1 last year. Oh, BTW, Barney Frank is still collecting his paycheck.
I refuse to buy the Tesla until they include a wet bar and a monocle-holder. What kind of barbarians do they think we are?
It's too bad you ruined a good post with your hyperbole in the fifth paragraph. "Oil" companies are recreating themselves as energy companies and have been for years. We won't achieve anything by attacking them. When you see the pork in federal spending, you see money thrown at everything but new drilling. If you were really concerned about energy independence, you would demand that we drill here to replace the foreign oil at the SAME TIME we were working on alternate energy.
The Democratic party won't let them declare bankruptcy because that would result in huge layoffs and loss of pensions-- and who do the unions vote for, again?
It's embarrassing that on a supposedly nerdly site, we have this kind of sarcastic, ignorant comment about GM when any geek knows that technology gets cheaper over time. The original Mac was far more expensive than most of today's PCs, even before you adjust for inflation. Yet, the average Slashdotter knows that it was groundbreaking in several ways and (except for the anti-Mac crowd) wouldn't dare suggest that it was stupid because it was slower and cost more than a new Dell.
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Slightly OT, but why is it that people call Americans a bunch of perverted Puritans when the Japanese have laws explicitly banning images of genitalia, thus spawning tentacle and bukkake?
I don't know. You might ask why they would abduct young Japanese? Or whether they are bothered by Japan's publicly expressed concerns about N. Korea's nuclear program?
Al Gore's Nobel Peace prize should be proudly displayed next to Yasser Arafat's.
The global mean hasn't risen since 1998. That is a fact. I am making no argument, just a statement.
So did you burn the place down?
Yes, but at least they gave him a can of bug spray.
So what you're saying is Star Trek is too big to fail?
Four was worth it just for Scotty's lines: "There be WHALES here!" and "Hellloooo computer!"
The waste doesn't happen until the reactor is decommissioned; and it's encased in a rather overblown, safe way. Heating up water? So the environmentalists are worried about accelerating entropy, now? Oh, and thanks to "environmentalists", no new reactors have been built in the USA for decades; no need to worry about that!
So in other words, it's okay to lie as long as you get your way?
Are you serial?