this is NOT a design issue. For the love of pete, one car was in a massive head-on, while the other 2 ran over something that would have destroyed the engine, the gas tank, or the passenger compartment. And then there would have been a fire in which you burn up.
OTOH, in this case, you had 2 fires in which the passenger had loads of time to pull over and then walk away, and the 3rd in which they had a massive accident (and likely would have killed you in any ICE car), and they walked away from it.
So... Here we have a government agency, which is funded by taxpayers, going completely off the rails and spends fortunes on snooping potential terrorists like the leaders of Germany, France, Spain -- not to mention entire countries which are supposedly allies. And you are saying it is not in the interests of the US citizens to know this?
If you think that the ONLY reason for the NSA is to stop terrorism, then you are seriously lacking in education.
And I said that it was treason for snowden to talk about our LEGAL OPERATIONS against the rest of the world. Heck, all of the leaders know that we do this. Germans knew it. They have been doing it to us and others (including china). And the only way that this works, is when ppl do not know what capabilities you have or don't have.
Besides, I am convinced that if the US public had reacted to the first batch of leaks (you know, the one which you did still consider "proper" whistleblowing) with anything more than the shameful apathy now on display, Snowden might not even have released any more.
First off, the NSA does not spy on every Americans. They do not have that capability.
Secondly, the NSA said that less than 2% (.2%?) of Americans had been spied on BY THE NSA. And even snowden did NOT dispute that.
And I doubt that you understand how snowden feels.
Sorry, but I hope not here. Phillipines has a LONG complex history with the states (much like haiti-usa or UK-usa). They deserve our help, and it is needed NOW.
yeah, so few ppl do not realize that outing information about spying on Americans was whistle-blowing, while spilling information about our actions on other nations (which was legal per US law), turned him into a traitor.
And yet, it came out that ALL other nations act the same way. Brazil, and Germany having been outed recently. And to be honest, it is A GOOD THING that they do. It allows each side to know what is going on.
Seriously, we should allow keystone pipeline, BUT, require a tax on it (say $1-2/BL) that is applied to move our vehicles to electric, CNG, and LNG. With this approach, we can drop America's oil addiction, while moving the west to clean energy.
And the nice thing about having CNG/LNG is that coal can be converted to methane relatively cleanly.
I made a bit of a joke the other day, but I hope that the DOD is pushing a large number of ppl into there to help. Like Haiti, Philippines has a long and complicated history with the USA, and we need to help.
This is an ideal time for Obama to support thorium plants and get them going. We have 2 companies minimum that with.5B each could have designs and perhaps small prototypes done within a relatively short time.
It makes sense for gov. to help new industries get started, but I do not like how they do it. far better ways to do so.
BUT, the financial industry is the one that burns me. We should NOT have bailed them out. Instead, we should have allowed them to crash and then picked up the pieces and re-built many new banks or better yet, credit unions.
yeah, it is not like coal, oil, nukes, hydro, trains, planes, space crafts, cars/roads, electrification, telephony, etc ever got a hand out from a gov, esp. the American federal or state govs.
wind is already cheaper in America than everything except for hydro, geo-thermal, and nat. gas (and in that order). And in some places, they do not have much of those 3, but have wind, so those areas are in fact, ordering wind. Even here in Colorado, Xcell is installing multiple nat. gas power plants, but they are installing several new wind power parks because they KNOW that nat. gas prices will go up.
And as to batteries, eos energy storage is already the lowest going, and they are below the costs of a nat. gas plant.
China will do what they did with solar, which is acquire western tech, and then subsidize and dump on Germany.
If Germany really wants to do this right, they will block ALL energy storage from China. Heck, the fact that they manipulate their money against the Euro and USD should be more than enough of a subsidy to trigger this.
So many are so short sighted. The far right will only invest into nat. gas or large uranium based companies such as GE and WestingHouse. The far left wants nothing by 'renewable'. Yet, the reason why America, along with the world, is because we invest far too much into ONE solution. For example, back in 79, hydro provided about 1/3 of our electricity, nuke about 1/3, and fossil fuel about 1/3. From that point on, between the far right pushing fossil fuel and the far left fighting hydro and nukes, by 2005, we switched to 75% fossil fuel, of which 60% was coal. Now, Coal is around 35% and dropping, BUT, nat gas is climbing (better, but not great). However, renewable is NOT growing fast enough and more importantly, it can not.
Out best solution is to move the coal=>methane, with the generated CO2 being disposed of properly, nat gas, renewable esp. wind, and geo-thermal, and NEW nukes being our core ENERGY solution.
And oddly, the new thorium nukes would not only be safer, but would burn ONLY fuel that is ABOVE ground. America is loaded with thorium that was mined long ago. As such, these new nukes could provide 100% of our power for over 100 years, without mining a single item. And yet, we have intelligent ppl even here on/. that will oppose this.
Sad.
When America does it based on ITAR to keep foreign nations like China, Iran, Venezuela, and North Korea from using it, they are the bad guys.
When another nation does it, then it is good. Good figure.
All items bought via delivery from out of state, should simply be taxed at 10% and have the delivery company collect it. Then allow that company to keep 10% of that collection. Then divide the rest between local, state, and fed.
Regardless, this approach solves the issue of local sales tax disappearing, and allows localities/states to focus on infrastructure. And for companies that ship, a flat 10% makes it easy to avoid dealing with major software issues.
what an ass.
Here is a clue for idiots like you. All of this was done under reagan and then extended massively under W. So far, nothing new has been shown since W left. You speak of dems taking liberties, when not only is is you neo-cons, BUT you cowards want to blame others for your actions and never take responsibility. Sad.
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good critique.
this is NOT a design issue. For the love of pete, one car was in a massive head-on, while the other 2 ran over something that would have destroyed the engine, the gas tank, or the passenger compartment. And then there would have been a fire in which you burn up.
OTOH, in this case, you had 2 fires in which the passenger had loads of time to pull over and then walk away, and the 3rd in which they had a massive accident (and likely would have killed you in any ICE car), and they walked away from it.
I'm sorry, what actions did the NSA do that was illegal or immoral?
So... Here we have a government agency, which is funded by taxpayers, going completely off the rails and spends fortunes on snooping potential terrorists like the leaders of Germany, France, Spain -- not to mention entire countries which are supposedly allies. And you are saying it is not in the interests of the US citizens to know this?
If you think that the ONLY reason for the NSA is to stop terrorism, then you are seriously lacking in education.
And I said that it was treason for snowden to talk about our LEGAL OPERATIONS against the rest of the world. Heck, all of the leaders know that we do this. Germans knew it. They have been doing it to us and others (including china). And the only way that this works, is when ppl do not know what capabilities you have or don't have.
Besides, I am convinced that if the US public had reacted to the first batch of leaks (you know, the one which you did still consider "proper" whistleblowing) with anything more than the shameful apathy now on display, Snowden might not even have released any more.
First off, the NSA does not spy on every Americans. They do not have that capability.
Secondly, the NSA said that less than 2% (.2%?) of Americans had been spied on BY THE NSA. And even snowden did NOT dispute that.
And I doubt that you understand how snowden feels.
Sorry, but I hope not here. Phillipines has a LONG complex history with the states (much like haiti-usa or UK-usa). They deserve our help, and it is needed NOW.
yeah, so few ppl do not realize that outing information about spying on Americans was whistle-blowing, while spilling information about our actions on other nations (which was legal per US law), turned him into a traitor.
And yet, it came out that ALL other nations act the same way. Brazil, and Germany having been outed recently. And to be honest, it is A GOOD THING that they do. It allows each side to know what is going on.
Seriously, we should allow keystone pipeline, BUT, require a tax on it (say $1-2/BL) that is applied to move our vehicles to electric, CNG, and LNG. With this approach, we can drop America's oil addiction, while moving the west to clean energy.
And the nice thing about having CNG/LNG is that coal can be converted to methane relatively cleanly.
yeah, we did that for the last 13 years. Good luck with that approach.
I made a bit of a joke the other day, but I hope that the DOD is pushing a large number of ppl into there to help. Like Haiti, Philippines has a long and complicated history with the USA, and we need to help.
This is an ideal time for Obama to support thorium plants and get them going. We have 2 companies minimum that with .5B each could have designs and perhaps small prototypes done within a relatively short time.
Interestingly, you should showed the original poster where our fear comes from: Irrational sets of lies from cowards.
It makes sense for gov. to help new industries get started, but I do not like how they do it. far better ways to do so.
BUT, the financial industry is the one that burns me. We should NOT have bailed them out. Instead, we should have allowed them to crash and then picked up the pieces and re-built many new banks or better yet, credit unions.
yes, I am quite sure that all of those cheap batteries are going to be lead-acid. *roll-eye*
yeah, it is not like coal, oil, nukes, hydro, trains, planes, space crafts, cars/roads, electrification, telephony, etc ever got a hand out from a gov, esp. the American federal or state govs.
wind is already cheaper in America than everything except for hydro, geo-thermal, and nat. gas (and in that order). And in some places, they do not have much of those 3, but have wind, so those areas are in fact, ordering wind. Even here in Colorado, Xcell is installing multiple nat. gas power plants, but they are installing several new wind power parks because they KNOW that nat. gas prices will go up.
And as to batteries, eos energy storage is already the lowest going, and they are below the costs of a nat. gas plant.
China will do what they did with solar, which is acquire western tech, and then subsidize and dump on Germany.
If Germany really wants to do this right, they will block ALL energy storage from China. Heck, the fact that they manipulate their money against the Euro and USD should be more than enough of a subsidy to trigger this.
except for the fact that if any of these accidents happened to a gas, and possibly diesel car, it would have been a fire.
not that I do not believe you, but I do not. So, since you made the wild claim, please provide proof.
That US bases there. Plenty of extra help.
So many are so short sighted. The far right will only invest into nat. gas or large uranium based companies such as GE and WestingHouse. The far left wants nothing by 'renewable'. Yet, the reason why America, along with the world, is because we invest far too much into ONE solution. For example, back in 79, hydro provided about 1/3 of our electricity, nuke about 1/3, and fossil fuel about 1/3. From that point on, between the far right pushing fossil fuel and the far left fighting hydro and nukes, by 2005, we switched to 75% fossil fuel, of which 60% was coal. Now, Coal is around 35% and dropping, BUT, nat gas is climbing (better, but not great). However, renewable is NOT growing fast enough and more importantly, it can not.
/. that will oppose this.
Out best solution is to move the coal=>methane, with the generated CO2 being disposed of properly, nat gas, renewable esp. wind, and geo-thermal, and NEW nukes being our core ENERGY solution.
And oddly, the new thorium nukes would not only be safer, but would burn ONLY fuel that is ABOVE ground. America is loaded with thorium that was mined long ago. As such, these new nukes could provide 100% of our power for over 100 years, without mining a single item. And yet, we have intelligent ppl even here on
Sad.
google is your friend.
When America does it based on ITAR to keep foreign nations like China, Iran, Venezuela, and North Korea from using it, they are the bad guys.
When another nation does it, then it is good. Good figure.
All items bought via delivery from out of state, should simply be taxed at 10% and have the delivery company collect it. Then allow that company to keep 10% of that collection. Then divide the rest between local, state, and fed.
Regardless, this approach solves the issue of local sales tax disappearing, and allows localities/states to focus on infrastructure. And for companies that ship, a flat 10% makes it easy to avoid dealing with major software issues.
what an ass.
Here is a clue for idiots like you. All of this was done under reagan and then extended massively under W. So far, nothing new has been shown since W left. You speak of dems taking liberties, when not only is is you neo-cons, BUT you cowards want to blame others for your actions and never take responsibility. Sad.