Denialist trolls: explain why Venus is hotter than Mercury despite being much farther from the sun, if CO2 isn't a greenhouse gas with higher concentrations leading to higher temperatures.
'6) The VAST majority of excess CO2 in the air is generated by humans. Speculative and not agreed'
Nice try, unless you're sitting on a supermassive volcano that nobody knows about, one that's been building for the last 50 years or so. But, that's the easy thing about being an anti-science troll...you just move on the to next canard, no matter if it's one that's been debunked a hundred times over. Because those debunkings haven't been reposted in this conversation. And when they are....you just move on to the next canard. Next in the rotation: scientists were worried about a new ice age in the 70's, so you can't trust anything they say!
OK, if you were the government and you saw $10,000,000,000 of insured deposits, and a failure would cost you $10,000,000,000, but a bailout would cost you $500,000,000, which would you choose? Waste $9,500,000,000 of the taxpayer money to teach the bank a lesson? Or "bailout" the bank for $500,000,000?
Except the bailout wasn't for the depositors, but the banks shareholders. It wasn't to protect the economy, it was to protect the net assets of the Jaime Dimon's in the industry.
The final will not differ greatly from the drafts.
You know that how?
They aren't going to spend years writing drafts only to shred them and come up with an entirely new agreement - and then pass it - within a matter of months.
Since there have been few leaks and no final documents you know very little about the agreement yet you want to stop it now. What is your decision based on?
Secret laws are anti-ethical to democracy, and ruling by the consent of the governed.
Your post demonstrates the problem here, you are convinced "they need to be stopped" but you have no idea what it is "they" are doing. It's the government snoop's "if you have nothing to hide" accusation in reverse.
The treaty could stipulate that everyone gets free blow jobs and puppies, but it wouldn't change the fact that secret laws are anti-ethical to democracy and the consent of the governed.
In a democracy it's never too late, that's why the constitution has amendments.
Snort. Right, just like how NAFTA was renegotiated and Gramm-Leach-Bailey was repealed, along the DMCA and telecom deregulation.
Secret negotiation provides an easy way to have a candid discussion, without worrying about vague implications of precise wording that one's political opponents will quote out of context and turn into the next hot election issue.
Have you always hated democracy and wanted to return to some form of monarchy/dictatorship, or just when you get to work in some whining about unions?
On a hunch, I pulled up this story and did a search for the letters r, e, and i. And what do you know! Everyone's favorite singe-rape activist had indeed shown up!
By that, there are lots of people who would consider rape their #1 political or societal issue. However, there is only one person that cares about only one rape case. And that person is you.
Hope the paychecks are of a decent size. Trolling any stories on Assange or Wikileaks with the same collection of lies and debunked talking points for years and years has to take a fair amount of effort, even if you keep your propaganda ready to copy-and-paste.
There are also plenty of blue collar jobs that are healthy or at least not harmful.
Manufacturing....i.e. the jobs that have been exported to China for the last 30 years as quickly as the capitalists can manage it. The good paying jobs left have been successfully union-busted, whether in aerospace (see Boeing) or in auto manufacturing (new workers might join the union but at shit pay).
That leaves us with skilled labor that can't be sent overseas: construction and related trades. And those jobs are all hard on the body.
And there are plenty of white collar jobs that are bad for your health too.
Working at a high-stress firm might be bad for your blood pressure, but it's not going to give you the knees of a 70 year old man at the age of 45.
Not mine either, Junior. The wolves wouldn't spend so much time telling the sheep what's good for them if a good chunk of them weren't rubes willing to fight against their own interests....in this case bleating about how much lawyers make instead of the company that ripped people off.
Give the money to the lawyers, burn it in the street, line it with birdcages, give it to a Colombian drug lord - it's money out of the hands of the entity that screwed over their employees, customers, etc, in the absence of any other action. The other alternatives are government prosecutors willing to step in with a heavy hand - don't hold your breath when the top prosecutor in the country says crap like this - or doing nothing. Of course, the sheep clutching their pearls about the compensation of the legal team have also been trained to grab the fainting couch at the sight of "big government", leading to the second alternative: doing nothing. Which was the real goal all along.
Or, once again, you could always hire your own damn lawyer to file your own damn case on your own damn dime.
The refusal to press charges is more based on the difficulty of proving it.
Just as a subcategory, the number of cops who skate after straight-up murdering people on camera makes that a laughable statement. What's the next joke - saying money has little influence on politics?
Many blue collar jobs, sales jobs, small businesses, and service jobs still pay very well, like they always have. And as an added bonus, you end up not having any debt and not losing 5-10 years of your working life and savings in college/grad school.
And many of those blue collar jobs leave your body a wreck before you hit 50. Sure, you can make good money as an electrician or a plumber...but it's real hard on the joints.
Surprise, sheep trained to complain about lawyers will "ba" on command. A class action gets you some compensation with zero risk, financial investment, or loss of time from yourself.
Don't like getting something for nothing? Hire your own damn lawyer and pay for his staff to rummage through thousands of documents to make your case.
Strangely enough, if you don't like getting something for free via a lawsuit that you don't have to pay for nor spend any time on, you can always hire your own attorney and file your own case.
Medical schools aren't under grad institutions. Attending a community college on your way to a bachelors degree in no way disqualifies you from attending medical school or graduate school.
So we're back at square one: saying Community Colleges are the solution to people who don't have rich parents or willing to risk a lifetime of student loan debt is to tell them a high level degree in medicine (or science or engineering) is beyond their reach, as CC's don't have doctoral programs.
Secondly your point was that the prestige of your undergrad school is what qualifies or disqualifies you for graduate or medical school. I pointed out that it's bullshit.
Huh? Where did I say anything about the prestige of the school? I'm not the girl that decided that certain....compromises were worth getting a degree from Duke.
SUNY tuition is has ever had anywhere near that rate of increase.
[come again?] Community Colleges aren't medical schools...that's they they're Community Colleges.
While have I never attended a community college, my ~$30,000* (total including living expenses) SUNY undergrad education in no way disqualified me for the PhD in physics I earned.
Yes, five figures in debt for you doctorate, ten years ago. This contradicts my point....?
That was a decade ago but tuition hasn't raised much in the last 10 years.
Double digit increases every year or two isn't "much"? Nice to see you've done well for yourself if that's now chump change for you. Most people aren't so lucky.
It was a loan. Doesn't really matter when it came from.
Sure it does, if you're a principled Randian. Of course, Rand herself was happy to line up for her Social Security and Medicare...it's always been hard to find a True Randian.
Doesn't come close to paying for tuition + living expenses. Even athletes with full rides take on student debt to support themselves, since they can't have jobs and aren't paid for putting asses in the seats. The kids selling pop corn and hot dogs in the concessions stands do, though.
Go to community college
Which blocks you from having a high level career as a doctorate in science, engineering, or medicine. Which again, is a feature for Social Darwinists - gotta keep the riff raff out.
live at home
Because everyone lives next to a high quality but cheap school.
Get a job that will pay your tuition while you go to school part time Get a job and pay your own tuition while you go to school part time
See first response.
Join the military so they will fund your education
And there it is. Want an education, hand your life over (quite literally in some cases) to support the Capitalist Empire.
Anyways...most people shouldn't be going to college...most people should be apprenticing or going to vocational schools.
Heaven forbid the proles move beyond their place. If you mother was a burger flipper, you'll be a burger flipper.
Yea great, lets just subsidize Solar until it's viable, surely it will work out better than all the windmills we put government money into which are rotting even though they are but a few years old.
As if nuclear and fossil fuels weren't subsidized up the wazoo. A very large chunk of the $1 trillion+ that the U.S. spends on "defense" is focused on maintaining the flow of energy out of the world's gas stations. Otherwise known as the middle east and places ready to be Made Democratic, like Venezuela.
Personally, I tend to view Bill Gates as a very successful parasite, more than a con man.
Why not both? He's been busy conning states into accepting Common Core, and other efforts to privatize public education, setting it up for capitalist parasites.
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Denialist trolls: explain why Venus is hotter than Mercury despite being much farther from the sun, if CO2 isn't a greenhouse gas with higher concentrations leading to higher temperatures.
Nice try, unless you're sitting on a supermassive volcano that nobody knows about, one that's been building for the last 50 years or so. But, that's the easy thing about being an anti-science troll...you just move on the to next canard, no matter if it's one that's been debunked a hundred times over. Because those debunkings haven't been reposted in this conversation. And when they are....you just move on to the next canard. Next in the rotation: scientists were worried about a new ice age in the 70's, so you can't trust anything they say!
Except the bailout wasn't for the depositors, but the banks shareholders. It wasn't to protect the economy, it was to protect the net assets of the Jaime Dimon's in the industry.
They aren't going to spend years writing drafts only to shred them and come up with an entirely new agreement - and then pass it - within a matter of months.
Secret laws are anti-ethical to democracy, and ruling by the consent of the governed.
The treaty could stipulate that everyone gets free blow jobs and puppies, but it wouldn't change the fact that secret laws are anti-ethical to democracy and the consent of the governed.
Snort. Right, just like how NAFTA was renegotiated and Gramm-Leach-Bailey was repealed, along the DMCA and telecom deregulation.
Your spin is lame, doctor.
Have you always hated democracy and wanted to return to some form of monarchy/dictatorship, or just when you get to work in some whining about unions?
On a hunch, I pulled up this story and did a search for the letters r, e, and i. And what do you know! Everyone's favorite singe-rape activist had indeed shown up!
By that, there are lots of people who would consider rape their #1 political or societal issue. However, there is only one person that cares about only one rape case. And that person is you.
Hope the paychecks are of a decent size. Trolling any stories on Assange or Wikileaks with the same collection of lies and debunked talking points for years and years has to take a fair amount of effort, even if you keep your propaganda ready to copy-and-paste.
Manufacturing....i.e. the jobs that have been exported to China for the last 30 years as quickly as the capitalists can manage it. The good paying jobs left have been successfully union-busted, whether in aerospace (see Boeing) or in auto manufacturing (new workers might join the union but at shit pay).
That leaves us with skilled labor that can't be sent overseas: construction and related trades. And those jobs are all hard on the body.
Working at a high-stress firm might be bad for your blood pressure, but it's not going to give you the knees of a 70 year old man at the age of 45.
Not mine either, Junior. The wolves wouldn't spend so much time telling the sheep what's good for them if a good chunk of them weren't rubes willing to fight against their own interests....in this case bleating about how much lawyers make instead of the company that ripped people off.
Give the money to the lawyers, burn it in the street, line it with birdcages, give it to a Colombian drug lord - it's money out of the hands of the entity that screwed over their employees, customers, etc, in the absence of any other action. The other alternatives are government prosecutors willing to step in with a heavy hand - don't hold your breath when the top prosecutor in the country says crap like this - or doing nothing. Of course, the sheep clutching their pearls about the compensation of the legal team have also been trained to grab the fainting couch at the sight of "big government", leading to the second alternative: doing nothing. Which was the real goal all along.
Or, once again, you could always hire your own damn lawyer to file your own damn case on your own damn dime.
Just as a subcategory, the number of cops who skate after straight-up murdering people on camera makes that a laughable statement. What's the next joke - saying money has little influence on politics?
And many of those blue collar jobs leave your body a wreck before you hit 50. Sure, you can make good money as an electrician or a plumber...but it's real hard on the joints.
It's also a guarantee that you wont be in for a lifetime of destitution if the student loan gamble doesn't pay off for you.
Surprise, sheep trained to complain about lawyers will "ba" on command. A class action gets you some compensation with zero risk, financial investment, or loss of time from yourself.
Don't like getting something for nothing? Hire your own damn lawyer and pay for his staff to rummage through thousands of documents to make your case.
Because that's the worst false equivalency of all time?
Strangely enough, if you don't like getting something for free via a lawsuit that you don't have to pay for nor spend any time on, you can always hire your own attorney and file your own case.
Oh, and looking the amount you spent on your undergrad degree would last you two years now. Is that still 'not much of an increase'?
So we're back at square one: saying Community Colleges are the solution to people who don't have rich parents or willing to risk a lifetime of student loan debt is to tell them a high level degree in medicine (or science or engineering) is beyond their reach, as CC's don't have doctoral programs.
Huh? Where did I say anything about the prestige of the school? I'm not the girl that decided that certain....compromises were worth getting a degree from Duke.
Most of the country has.
[come again?] Community Colleges aren't medical schools...that's they they're Community Colleges.
Yes, five figures in debt for you doctorate, ten years ago. This contradicts my point....?
Double digit increases every year or two isn't "much"? Nice to see you've done well for yourself if that's now chump change for you. Most people aren't so lucky.
Sure it does, if you're a principled Randian. Of course, Rand herself was happy to line up for her Social Security and Medicare...it's always been hard to find a True Randian.
Doesn't come close to paying for tuition + living expenses. Even athletes with full rides take on student debt to support themselves, since they can't have jobs and aren't paid for putting asses in the seats. The kids selling pop corn and hot dogs in the concessions stands do, though.
Which blocks you from having a high level career as a doctorate in science, engineering, or medicine. Which again, is a feature for Social Darwinists - gotta keep the riff raff out.
Because everyone lives next to a high quality but cheap school.
See first response.
And there it is. Want an education, hand your life over (quite literally in some cases) to support the Capitalist Empire.
Heaven forbid the proles move beyond their place. If you mother was a burger flipper, you'll be a burger flipper.
1? Why not 1.21?
As if nuclear and fossil fuels weren't subsidized up the wazoo. A very large chunk of the $1 trillion+ that the U.S. spends on "defense" is focused on maintaining the flow of energy out of the world's gas stations. Otherwise known as the middle east and places ready to be Made Democratic, like Venezuela.
Why not both? He's been busy conning states into accepting Common Core, and other efforts to privatize public education, setting it up for capitalist parasites.
More like a Tony Stark. No True Randian would accept billions in government money to Go Galt. It's all about the bootstraps, doncha know.