oh, it is going to be dealt with. Mother nature abhors overpopulation. And we have done it by artificial means that can not be sustained. And when nations like China destroy their water, they WILL go to war. First they will take it from India, but will then probably also after Russia's.
Hold on. If you apply a tax against imports, that is a tariff. If you apply it to imports AND LOCAL goods, then it is a regular sales tax. The first will be shot down by WTO, in spite of the fact that nations like China have over 400 tariffs (and are supposed to have less than 20). The second is LEGAL by ALL TREATIES. More importantly, we in America, will not feel pressure to lower our own emissions, UNLESS we have a tax that is going to go up. With this approach, it gives nations time to avoid the tax. They simply spend their money on dropping their own emissions and that way, they can continue to export.
And yet, they did not. They have said for the last 8 years that AGW is a threat to global security and ultimately to the West. The scenarios painted over and over show that China runs out of water which is why they are building dams higher up on the rivers. They plan to take the water from India and bangladash. In the mean time, China is helping Pakistan and Burma knowing that they could tie up India and Bangladash with nukes pointed at them.
Then you have central and southern America which are heavily populated and they will likely have issues with water as well. With the overpopulation that exists there now, ppl will leave to go to Argentina, or northern America. Northern Africa will have massive wars as it dries up further.
politcal and/or economic advantage. If America were to do what EU and liberals want America to do (apply cap/trade) it would actually make things WORSE. Much worse. Nations like China, Brazil, India, etc would quickly build up more coal plants to grab as much business as they can. The reason is that they will claim that it is their right to add more CO2 to the atmosphere.
it will not happen. The reason is that many nations like China will take advantage of this to build up their own economy and hope that other nations do the heavy lifting. Worse, EU and liberals here fall for the trap of emissions PER CAPITA. It is the WORST IDEA EVER. China has not had a changing population, yet, their emissions went up nearly 10 fold over something like a 20 year period. It is about ECONOMIC OUTPUT and how you cheat at it. And yes, China CHEATS HEAVILY. So do many nations.
If we want this solved, America is the solution. We are the largest importers. At this time, we should put a tax on ALL GOODS, both local and imported, based on the CO2 (and later add other pollutants) that is emitted from an area. The CO2 should be measured by satellite and it should be a case of (co2 out - co2 in).
The important part is that the tax is then based as a % of CO2 PER GDP (unleveled) or a combination of CO2/GDP and CO2/land size (deals with farming which can add a lot of CO2).
If America was to do this, it would impact the world over. Basically, nations that have been working on lowering their emissions will have lower taxes. Those like China which continue to cheat, would have top taxes applied to them.
Ideally, ALL nations that care should do this. They will encourage all other nations to move quickly towards dropping their emissions.
Since the economy is fragile, the maximum tax should start low and build yearly. That gives nations time to adjust.
Let me point out that they have the great firewall of China. And one thing that has been learned is that it is designed to work both ways nicely. Even if they leave backdoors in their equipment (most likely that will be the case), there will not be easy ways to get the information out of China. IOW, when China finally attacks the west, they already have their firewall up and most likely will have quickly installed updates on all of their core equipment. IOW, they will not be able to monitor, but nobody will attack either.
That is interesting. If the poles shift, then it would be likely that turtles mating spots will drift over the years. I would think that would provide some interesting clues.
if O attacked fusion to get it this much funding? Seriously. Anything that O pushes for, the neo-cons fight. At this time, it is stupid to have neo-cons in CONgress with O in the WH.
I take it that you are either a wall street banker or an Ex-ceo of GM or Chrysler just before they bankrupted?
Just because MS has 17B in sales does NOT make them doing great. Far from it. They are losing market share. They are losing desktop # AND office #. As that drops, they will lose their monopoly. Once they do, they will collapse quickly.
Yeah, MS is doing just great. Why just 4 years ago, apple was 1/2 of MS's revenue and Google was 1/4. Now, Apple is double MS's and Google is 1/2 of MSs.
And you really think that MS is doing great? Seriously? You have not taken notice of the fact that much of MS's revenue is from price increases on western sold, while decreasing prices on all other locations? Even with that, their unit sales are dropping, not increasing.
Actually, Google has search, map, and android. However, the 3 support each other. It will be interesting to see what is going to come from openmap's impact on google map.
G+ is just getting started. I do not think that it is a ghost town, but it really is lacking what is needed to make it compete against FB. The fact that you can not write scripts is just amazing. I am shocked that they did not and still have not, done that.
Except that Boronx is not one of the astroturfers. Yes,/. is being astroturfed by MS. That is a fact. However, your claiming that everybody who supports MS must either work for them or is one of the astroturfers is a losing proposition.
Well, yes, however, it keeps gamers attached to Windows. Actually, I think that Xbox is pretty smart on MS's part. The other possibility would have been for the other games to port API's to Linux (and apple) and then have new games created on non-windows. From MS's POV, they are almost certainly thankful that this has NOT happened yet.
Actually, up until page took over as CEO, google had many of their projects around with loads of support for longer than bing. They were truly long-term focused. However, none of the projects got the money that bing got.
Schmidt's approach was to have numerous projects and see what stuck to the wall. IOW, he was trying to allow projects to happen in the same way that Google search was done. Page is now cleaning house. It remains to be seen what will happen. I think that he is trying to focus all on search and android. So, many of those with web projects that are being gutted, may actually re-deploy on droid. But it is hard to say that is the case.
Seriously, many of the reasons for building in-house cafes was to allow those kinds of discussions to occur. Yet, many conversations occur outside in other restaurants. As such, they should have the dining room divided into multiple sections so that it is possible to have conversation with outsiders, but not having others listening in.
Also, they should seriously consider the idea of having multiple kitchens in it, and allow new chefs that come up with new concepts test it out there and then fund them for other restaurants if it is liked.
Goldwater, Eisenhower, Teddy, and Lincoln are no doubt rolling in their graves.
The republicans have been taken over by neo-cons who only care about big business and themselves. IOW, the end justifies the means.
I can only hope that the true republicans will create a new party, perhaps the first person will be David Walker (a social moderate, strong fiscal conservative), and call it the GoldWater party. Let the neo-cons and religious fanatics have their own damn party. As it is, the neo-cons have invaded the Libertarian party over the last 8 years to the point that I quit going to meetings. I was ready to blow the head off the next GD neo-con that screamed that we needed to support W and fight against abortion and gay marriage. At this time, I would gladly join a GoldWater Party.
Does it matter if it is current or not? What this shows, if true, is that China is busy cracking away at the west. Now, to be honest, most know it. However, you have ppl that run around and scream that the West does it, or that China does not mean anything bad by it, etc. etc. etc.
In the end, just because we see something nearly 10 years old, does not mean that they do not have newer stuff.
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Canada's conservatives are becoming a lot more like American republicans. Now, they simply need to share information to see how to cheat at it better.
oh, it is going to be dealt with. Mother nature abhors overpopulation. And we have done it by artificial means that can not be sustained. And when nations like China destroy their water, they WILL go to war. First they will take it from India, but will then probably also after Russia's.
Hold on. If you apply a tax against imports, that is a tariff. If you apply it to imports AND LOCAL goods, then it is a regular sales tax. The first will be shot down by WTO, in spite of the fact that nations like China have over 400 tariffs (and are supposed to have less than 20). The second is LEGAL by ALL TREATIES. More importantly, we in America, will not feel pressure to lower our own emissions, UNLESS we have a tax that is going to go up. With this approach, it gives nations time to avoid the tax. They simply spend their money on dropping their own emissions and that way, they can continue to export.
And yet, they did not. They have said for the last 8 years that AGW is a threat to global security and ultimately to the West. The scenarios painted over and over show that China runs out of water which is why they are building dams higher up on the rivers. They plan to take the water from India and bangladash. In the mean time, China is helping Pakistan and Burma knowing that they could tie up India and Bangladash with nukes pointed at them.
Then you have central and southern America which are heavily populated and they will likely have issues with water as well. With the overpopulation that exists there now, ppl will leave to go to Argentina, or northern America. Northern Africa will have massive wars as it dries up further.
politcal and/or economic advantage. If America were to do what EU and liberals want America to do (apply cap/trade) it would actually make things WORSE. Much worse. Nations like China, Brazil, India, etc would quickly build up more coal plants to grab as much business as they can. The reason is that they will claim that it is their right to add more CO2 to the atmosphere.
it will not happen. The reason is that many nations like China will take advantage of this to build up their own economy and hope that other nations do the heavy lifting. Worse, EU and liberals here fall for the trap of emissions PER CAPITA. It is the WORST IDEA EVER. China has not had a changing population, yet, their emissions went up nearly 10 fold over something like a 20 year period. It is about ECONOMIC OUTPUT and how you cheat at it. And yes, China CHEATS HEAVILY. So do many nations.
If we want this solved, America is the solution. We are the largest importers. At this time, we should put a tax on ALL GOODS, both local and imported, based on the CO2 (and later add other pollutants) that is emitted from an area. The CO2 should be measured by satellite and it should be a case of (co2 out - co2 in).
The important part is that the tax is then based as a % of CO2 PER GDP (unleveled) or a combination of CO2/GDP and CO2/land size (deals with farming which can add a lot of CO2).
If America was to do this, it would impact the world over. Basically, nations that have been working on lowering their emissions will have lower taxes. Those like China which continue to cheat, would have top taxes applied to them.
Ideally, ALL nations that care should do this. They will encourage all other nations to move quickly towards dropping their emissions.
Since the economy is fragile, the maximum tax should start low and build yearly. That gives nations time to adjust.
Let me point out that they have the great firewall of China. And one thing that has been learned is that it is designed to work both ways nicely. Even if they leave backdoors in their equipment (most likely that will be the case), there will not be easy ways to get the information out of China. IOW, when China finally attacks the west, they already have their firewall up and most likely will have quickly installed updates on all of their core equipment. IOW, they will not be able to monitor, but nobody will attack either.
Yeah, I am sure that it would NEVER occur to them to use one chip for their stuff and another for all else.
That is interesting. If the poles shift, then it would be likely that turtles mating spots will drift over the years. I would think that would provide some interesting clues.
Yeah, I am wondering the same thing.
if O attacked fusion to get it this much funding? Seriously. Anything that O pushes for, the neo-cons fight. At this time, it is stupid to have neo-cons in CONgress with O in the WH.
I take it that you are either a wall street banker or an Ex-ceo of GM or Chrysler just before they bankrupted?
Just because MS has 17B in sales does NOT make them doing great. Far from it. They are losing market share. They are losing desktop # AND office #. As that drops, they will lose their monopoly. Once they do, they will collapse quickly.
Same API. Many games on Xbox are sold for Windows as well.
Yeah, MS is doing just great.
Why just 4 years ago, apple was 1/2 of MS's revenue and Google was 1/4. Now, Apple is double MS's and Google is 1/2 of MSs.
And you really think that MS is doing great? Seriously? You have not taken notice of the fact that much of MS's revenue is from price increases on western sold, while decreasing prices on all other locations? Even with that, their unit sales are dropping, not increasing.
Actually, Google has search, map, and android. However, the 3 support each other. It will be interesting to see what is going to come from openmap's impact on google map.
G+ is just getting started. I do not think that it is a ghost town, but it really is lacking what is needed to make it compete against FB. The fact that you can not write scripts is just amazing. I am shocked that they did not and still have not, done that.
Except that Boronx is not one of the astroturfers. Yes, /. is being astroturfed by MS. That is a fact. However, your claiming that everybody who supports MS must either work for them or is one of the astroturfers is a losing proposition.
Ouch. touche.
Well, yes, however, it keeps gamers attached to Windows. Actually, I think that Xbox is pretty smart on MS's part. The other possibility would have been for the other games to port API's to Linux (and apple) and then have new games created on non-windows. From MS's POV, they are almost certainly thankful that this has NOT happened yet.
I'll say that they take the long term view. They continue to try and buy market share for IIS and it still continues to slide downwards into oblivion. No doubt they will shortly throw 10's of billions at it shortly again and get their %s up to 20%, where it will continue its slow slide. Again.
Actually, up until page took over as CEO, google had many of their projects around with loads of support for longer than bing. They were truly long-term focused. However, none of the projects got the money that bing got.
Schmidt's approach was to have numerous projects and see what stuck to the wall. IOW, he was trying to allow projects to happen in the same way that Google search was done. Page is now cleaning house. It remains to be seen what will happen. I think that he is trying to focus all on search and android. So, many of those with web projects that are being gutted, may actually re-deploy on droid. But it is hard to say that is the case.
Oh, I think that they would be happier if he would repeat to the press and google. If he says it often enough, it will be believed.
Well, I hear that you are no longer running for president. Now, please turn your supporters towards paul.
Seriously, many of the reasons for building in-house cafes was to allow those kinds of discussions to occur. Yet, many conversations occur outside in other restaurants. As such, they should have the dining room divided into multiple sections so that it is possible to have conversation with outsiders, but not having others listening in.
Also, they should seriously consider the idea of having multiple kitchens in it, and allow new chefs that come up with new concepts test it out there and then fund them for other restaurants if it is liked.
Goldwater, Eisenhower, Teddy, and Lincoln are no doubt rolling in their graves.
The republicans have been taken over by neo-cons who only care about big business and themselves. IOW, the end justifies the means.
I can only hope that the true republicans will create a new party, perhaps the first person will be David Walker (a social moderate, strong fiscal conservative), and call it the GoldWater party. Let the neo-cons and religious fanatics have their own damn party. As it is, the neo-cons have invaded the Libertarian party over the last 8 years to the point that I quit going to meetings. I was ready to blow the head off the next GD neo-con that screamed that we needed to support W and fight against abortion and gay marriage. At this time, I would gladly join a GoldWater Party.
Does it matter if it is current or not? What this shows, if true, is that China is busy cracking away at the west. Now, to be honest, most know it. However, you have ppl that run around and scream that the West does it, or that China does not mean anything bad by it, etc. etc. etc.
In the end, just because we see something nearly 10 years old, does not mean that they do not have newer stuff.