Rail is a bottleneck on the tar sands, as the developers aren't going to mine far beyond their capcity to transport the product, which is why they want the pipeline. Which gives more time for a less fascist government to replace Harper, or just forget about the whole project with the current cheap price of oil. But once you've got an investment like a completed pipeline, you're going to want to get your money back, even if means waiting years for the price of oil to go back up.
CD burners that cheap didn't come out until years after the Dreamcast was already dead. Piracy was an excuse in any case, as some of the most copied games were also the biggest money makers for their time: just look at Warcraft and Starcraft.
Heck I was able to get 1Mbps DSL in the middle of nowhere a by 2001.
And someone won the Powerball last week. Extraordinarily rare anecdotes do not a median make.
Oil companies are going to go all OPEC on us and start cutting back on production to manipulate prices for maximizing profits.
That would be a change from the current manipulation, where the U.S. and Saudis are flooding the markets with cheap oil to hurt Venezuela, Iran, and Russia.
Yes, it's far better that the robber barons keep their money and their serfs in company towns, rather than some layers making some money! The risk of losing of which, in these kinds of cases, tends to be born entirely by said lawyers.
Climate Change Deniers you're as wrong as anti-vaxxers and anti-nuclear power advocates.
Why not whip out GMO's and compete the trifecta of false conflations? Fact is, nuclear power is by far the most dangerous, and by far the most expensive, power source ever invented by man. Skip the comparisons to collapsing dams, that depend on counting disasters before the widespread use of nuclear power and ignoring the vast disparity in numbers between hydro and nuclear.
Go ahead to the part where you rattle off the nuclear power plants that roll the full cost of construction, decomission, security, maintenance, disaster preparedness, insurance, and last but not least storing the waste for thousands of years into the rates charged to customers.
It's hard for this to come across as anything other than a lazy "we failed to win the argument so lets just call them names" approach.
Or, a lazy denial of the fact that you can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into. The more you shower the anti-vaxxers with facts, the more they deny them. Not sure why anyone would continue to argue otherwise when studies have shown this to be the case, not just your lying eyes.
You'd still be crying "character assassination" if a pro-AGW study turned out to have been funded by Al Gore without disclosure, and was met with the same criticism? It's an apples-to-apples comparison, so you should have no problem answering a simple question with a simple monosyllabic answer.
Asking for consistency is "character assassination" on what planet? Asking a conservative if he'd have no problem with Michael Moore covertly funding AGW studies is no more "assassination" than asking an Obama fan why she stopped having a problem with the Patriot Act after Obama was elected.
Where you dropped on the head as a child, or something?
Which part of "chemical weapons degrade over time" did you skip over, or "it's not a weapon of mass destruction if it's incapable of causing mass destruction? This is on the scale of falling out of a boat in the middle of the Pacific and insisting that water is dry, because of some link to HuffPo, which never actually says anything about WMD's.
FFS man, Hillary and a Bush are the so-far front runners for 2016. The Hillary that's been complaining that Obama hasn't bombed ISIS enough. If WMD's were found in Iraq, they would be letting you know. They're not.
Sniper is full of the later, starting with the suggestion that Kyle was in Iraq was 911, which was well-debunked a decade ago. Then suggesting that if Kyle was wrong to shoot someone, he'd end up in military prison - a farce as the U.S. made the puppet government it set up agree to give American's immunity from war crimes. But even the puppets got fed up and refused to let the U.S. go on shooting Iraqis for shits and giggles without consequence. Then there's the rationalization of murdering a woman and a boy because they were going to throw a grenade at the hostile, torturing, shoot-first-ask-questions-never army occupying their country. To use the movie's own metaphor, American forces were the wolves, and the "insurgents" were the sheepdogs trying to drive out the invaders who came on false pretenses.
Zero Dark 30 was a similar POS, for making the equally debunked claim that torture led to the successful assassination of Bin Laddin. On the other side of the coin, Selma might have won best picture if it hadn't relied on it's own historical revisionism, when it made out LBJ as being an opponent of civil rights that had to be won over into an ally. A lie, and a lazy one at that - if they wanted to throw rocks at LBJ, all they had to do was bring up Vietnam, another aggressive war of choice that MLK adamantly opposed. Which disproportionately affected black men, as they were far less likely to have the means to dodge the draft by going to college, or flee it entirely by going to Canada or Mexico.
Because you'd have the same "leave the Brittney scientist alone" reaction if the situation was completely reversed. If an oft-cited study demonstrating that climate change was a real thing suddenly turned out to have been funded on the sly by Michael Moore, Al Gore, or Greenpeace, or the liberal booogyman of your choice. You'd still be calling it character assassination and wanting the science to "speak for itself."
As to Saddam having WMDs, you apparently have not read the reports about ISIS using the WMDs which Saddam had stockpiled
This canard comes up ever time some mustard gas container from the Iran-Iraq war turns up. It's all the same BS, as chemical and biological weapons degrade over time, and it's simply not a weapon of mass destruction if it's no longer capable of mass destruction.
Period.
Otherwise, all the former Bushies would be crowing 24/7/365 that they were right to invade Iraq, and it's all you'd be hearing about from both Jeb and Hillary. But that's not the case, because this is nothing more than a wingnut fantasy.
How do you figure? Solar panels are pennies on the ten thousand dollar bill next to oil. Fellating Exxon is a thoroughly bipartisan endeavor - Obama has opened up more land to drilling than Bush and Cheney, including the eastern seaboard. He brags that the U.S. is producing more oil and gas than it has the ability to transport to market. Biden's son is a top executive at Ukrainian energy company. BP was allowed to savage the Gulf of Mexico and get away with paying a fraction of the costs of mitigation. Politicians from both parties fall over themselves in the rush to pledge their love of coal.
Government has a heavy bias toward fossil fuels. If there was a bias resulting from government-funded science grants, it would be against climate change, not for it.
Some of them even play for the same team - Clinton pushed through laws Reagan could have only dreamed of: NAFTA, gutting welfare, telecom deregulation, and repealing Glass-Steagall. The "mainstream media" serves the same status quo interests as Fox, and does it better. Everyone knows Sean Hannity is a chicken hawk hack, but Tim Russert on the other hand! He's got that patented tuffbutfair gravitas, which he gave away to Cheney every time he was on his show.
Remember all the complaints that it was time for OWS to start picking issues and candidates, getting involved with electoral politics? That was frustration from political operatives that OWS didn't immediately turn itself into tools of the DNC the way the Teabaggers let themselves be co-opted by the Kochs.
Women are stuck with the consequences no mater what.
Morning after pill is "no matter what"?
Abortion is "no matter what"?
Giving the child up for adoption - with or without his consent - is "no matter what"?
Spill the load and knock her up, you're lost the choice and are still responsible for your actions
So you're going to barrel on with that double standard, regardless? How precious.
But if you think in some way she isn't bearing the brunt of the responsibility, you are completely naive.
You're completely ignoring the following 216 months with your tunnel vision on the first 9. Why is that? Do you think that responsibility for a child stops with birth?
How does something so completely wrong get modded so highly?
How about you re-read the first sentence? BC for women does not reduce the sensation for them, with the occasional exception of diaphragms. Condoms do reduce sensation for men, most of whom (in the U.S.) already had their sensation reduced by half via infant genital cutting.
Except it's her body, you gave up the rights when it left your body. But you didn't give up the responsibility.
Except that's still crap. Either "you made a choice, now deal with the consequences" applies to both parents, or neither. And you guys have yet to explain why 9 months of a women's life is sacred, yet 18 years of a man's life is nothing worthy of consideration.
The pharma industry doesn't like to make medicines that solve more than one problem at a time. It's difficult to monetize that efficiently.
Duuuuurwutt? Why would Pharma not want to sell the same research (cost) as multiple products(profit)? Wellbutrin alone is used to treat anxiety, depression, and OCD.
The number of responses here along the lines of "women always trick men into marriage by getting pregnant"
"Always"? Which comments would those be? In any case, some men are tricked into being fathers, or think they are fathers. The chances of that happening are small, but the consequences (the next 20 years of your life) are large.
I can't be the only man on Slashdot who 1) respects women
/rollseyes
How about respecting people?
"birth control is a woman's responsibility"
Women have a plethora of BC options open to them - various IUD's, the pill, diaphragms. None of which (well, occasionally diaphragms) interfere with her pleasure during sex. Condoms do interfere for men, and most American men are already missing half their nerves to begin with, when their genitals were cut without their consent as infants.
In other words, you would like for other people to pay for their choices. You consider your choices to be unassailable.
More hand waving.
this leftist
Snort. Like any leftist is going to even dream of possibly hypothetically maybe using the Personal Responsibility Fairy argument that people choose long commutes for their job.
You are much closer to Rand than I.
Not on this planet. At best you're a LMIAL, which of course is just another sort of right-winger.
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Rail is a bottleneck on the tar sands, as the developers aren't going to mine far beyond their capcity to transport the product, which is why they want the pipeline. Which gives more time for a less fascist government to replace Harper, or just forget about the whole project with the current cheap price of oil. But once you've got an investment like a completed pipeline, you're going to want to get your money back, even if means waiting years for the price of oil to go back up.
CD burners that cheap didn't come out until years after the Dreamcast was already dead. Piracy was an excuse in any case, as some of the most copied games were also the biggest money makers for their time: just look at Warcraft and Starcraft.
And someone won the Powerball last week. Extraordinarily rare anecdotes do not a median make.
That would be a change from the current manipulation, where the U.S. and Saudis are flooding the markets with cheap oil to hurt Venezuela, Iran, and Russia.
Yes, it's far better that the robber barons keep their money and their serfs in company towns, rather than some layers making some money! The risk of losing of which, in these kinds of cases, tends to be born entirely by said lawyers.
At a time when people were still on modems and a cd burner cost more than a Playstation 2?
Why not whip out GMO's and compete the trifecta of false conflations? Fact is, nuclear power is by far the most dangerous, and by far the most expensive, power source ever invented by man. Skip the comparisons to collapsing dams, that depend on counting disasters before the widespread use of nuclear power and ignoring the vast disparity in numbers between hydro and nuclear.
Go ahead to the part where you rattle off the nuclear power plants that roll the full cost of construction, decomission, security, maintenance, disaster preparedness, insurance, and last but not least storing the waste for thousands of years into the rates charged to customers.
Or, a lazy denial of the fact that you can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into. The more you shower the anti-vaxxers with facts, the more they deny them. Not sure why anyone would continue to argue otherwise when studies have shown this to be the case, not just your lying eyes.
News at 11.
You'd still be crying "character assassination" if a pro-AGW study turned out to have been funded by Al Gore without disclosure, and was met with the same criticism? It's an apples-to-apples comparison, so you should have no problem answering a simple question with a simple monosyllabic answer.
Yes or no.
Yes or no.
Yes or no.
Asking for consistency is "character assassination" on what planet? Asking a conservative if he'd have no problem with Michael Moore covertly funding AGW studies is no more "assassination" than asking an Obama fan why she stopped having a problem with the Patriot Act after Obama was elected.
Where you dropped on the head as a child, or something?
Which part of "chemical weapons degrade over time" did you skip over, or "it's not a weapon of mass destruction if it's incapable of causing mass destruction? This is on the scale of falling out of a boat in the middle of the Pacific and insisting that water is dry, because of some link to HuffPo, which never actually says anything about WMD's.
FFS man, Hillary and a Bush are the so-far front runners for 2016. The Hillary that's been complaining that Obama hasn't bombed ISIS enough. If WMD's were found in Iraq, they would be letting you know. They're not.
Sniper is full of the later, starting with the suggestion that Kyle was in Iraq was 911, which was well-debunked a decade ago. Then suggesting that if Kyle was wrong to shoot someone, he'd end up in military prison - a farce as the U.S. made the puppet government it set up agree to give American's immunity from war crimes. But even the puppets got fed up and refused to let the U.S. go on shooting Iraqis for shits and giggles without consequence. Then there's the rationalization of murdering a woman and a boy because they were going to throw a grenade at the hostile, torturing, shoot-first-ask-questions-never army occupying their country. To use the movie's own metaphor, American forces were the wolves, and the "insurgents" were the sheepdogs trying to drive out the invaders who came on false pretenses.
Zero Dark 30 was a similar POS, for making the equally debunked claim that torture led to the successful assassination of Bin Laddin. On the other side of the coin, Selma might have won best picture if it hadn't relied on it's own historical revisionism, when it made out LBJ as being an opponent of civil rights that had to be won over into an ally. A lie, and a lazy one at that - if they wanted to throw rocks at LBJ, all they had to do was bring up Vietnam, another aggressive war of choice that MLK adamantly opposed. Which disproportionately affected black men, as they were far less likely to have the means to dodge the draft by going to college, or flee it entirely by going to Canada or Mexico.
Repeating right wing canards doesn't make them true. Sorry.
Because you'd have the same "leave the Brittney scientist alone" reaction if the situation was completely reversed. If an oft-cited study demonstrating that climate change was a real thing suddenly turned out to have been funded on the sly by Michael Moore, Al Gore, or Greenpeace, or the liberal booogyman of your choice. You'd still be calling it character assassination and wanting the science to "speak for itself."
Yup. Sure. You becha.
This canard comes up ever time some mustard gas container from the Iran-Iraq war turns up. It's all the same BS, as chemical and biological weapons degrade over time, and it's simply not a weapon of mass destruction if it's no longer capable of mass destruction.
Period.
Otherwise, all the former Bushies would be crowing 24/7/365 that they were right to invade Iraq, and it's all you'd be hearing about from both Jeb and Hillary. But that's not the case, because this is nothing more than a wingnut fantasy.
How do you figure? Solar panels are pennies on the ten thousand dollar bill next to oil. Fellating Exxon is a thoroughly bipartisan endeavor - Obama has opened up more land to drilling than Bush and Cheney, including the eastern seaboard. He brags that the U.S. is producing more oil and gas than it has the ability to transport to market. Biden's son is a top executive at Ukrainian energy company. BP was allowed to savage the Gulf of Mexico and get away with paying a fraction of the costs of mitigation. Politicians from both parties fall over themselves in the rush to pledge their love of coal.
Government has a heavy bias toward fossil fuels. If there was a bias resulting from government-funded science grants, it would be against climate change, not for it.
Some of them even play for the same team - Clinton pushed through laws Reagan could have only dreamed of: NAFTA, gutting welfare, telecom deregulation, and repealing Glass-Steagall. The "mainstream media" serves the same status quo interests as Fox, and does it better. Everyone knows Sean Hannity is a chicken hawk hack, but Tim Russert on the other hand! He's got that patented tuffbutfair gravitas, which he gave away to Cheney every time he was on his show.
Remember all the complaints that it was time for OWS to start picking issues and candidates, getting involved with electoral politics? That was frustration from political operatives that OWS didn't immediately turn itself into tools of the DNC the way the Teabaggers let themselves be co-opted by the Kochs.
Lazy non-response is lazy.
Morning after pill is "no matter what"?
Abortion is "no matter what"?
Giving the child up for adoption - with or without his consent - is "no matter what"?
So you're going to barrel on with that double standard, regardless? How precious.
You're completely ignoring the following 216 months with your tunnel vision on the first 9. Why is that? Do you think that responsibility for a child stops with birth?
Yeah, straw men are odd that way.
Maybe ponder the hypocrisy of saying "you made a choice, now deal with the consequences" to only one person?
How about you re-read the first sentence? BC for women does not reduce the sensation for them, with the occasional exception of diaphragms. Condoms do reduce sensation for men, most of whom (in the U.S.) already had their sensation reduced by half via infant genital cutting.
Except that's still crap. Either "you made a choice, now deal with the consequences" applies to both parents, or neither. And you guys have yet to explain why 9 months of a women's life is sacred, yet 18 years of a man's life is nothing worthy of consideration.
Duuuuurwutt? Why would Pharma not want to sell the same research (cost) as multiple products(profit)? Wellbutrin alone is used to treat anxiety, depression, and OCD.
"Always"? Which comments would those be? In any case, some men are tricked into being fathers, or think they are fathers. The chances of that happening are small, but the consequences (the next 20 years of your life) are large.
How about respecting people?
Women have a plethora of BC options open to them - various IUD's, the pill, diaphragms. None of which (well, occasionally diaphragms) interfere with her pleasure during sex. Condoms do interfere for men, and most American men are already missing half their nerves to begin with, when their genitals were cut without their consent as infants.
More hand waving.
Snort. Like any leftist is going to even dream of possibly hypothetically maybe using the Personal Responsibility Fairy argument that people choose long commutes for their job.
Not on this planet. At best you're a LMIAL, which of course is just another sort of right-winger.