War industry employees should all work for subsistence wages, and really should be volunteers if not draftees. Industrial business should not even be allowed to take profits for the duration of war.
If it's a total war for your survival (i.e. Europe in WWII), then of course everything should take a backseat to national defense. It's another story entirely when you're engaged in an aggressive war of choice like we are now.
One thing that bothers me about environmental Concern Trolls is how they pretend every solution is supposed to be one-sized-fits-all. If your actual needs are best served by getting a gas guzzling Suburban or Expedition...then go ahead and frikkin buy one.
I believe the point is that you are the one who is associating beliefs, attitudes, etc. with the color of someone's skin, and that is what actually makes YOU the racist.
This is competition, not being anti-competitive. Every company that sells trademarked or patented products has a product "monopoly". Do you also bitch & moan that you can't play Wii games on your XBox?
When, and only when, Apple obtains a market monopoly can you have some cheese to go with that whine.
But at least XP had a couple of reasons to upgrade from 2000: "run as" and instant user switching. Whereas Vista is a shit sandwich: the useful features were stripped out (WinFS), but the bloat and annoying crap (UAC) were taken to 11.
Each year, the President of the United States submits his budget request to Congress for the following fiscal year, as required by the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921. Current law (31 U.S.C. 1105(a)) requires the President to submit a budget no earlier than the first Monday in January, and no later than the first Monday in February. Typically, Presidents submit budgets on the first Monday in February.
Rather convenient that you leave out the part where the ice is thickening due to increased precipitation - brought on by warmer temperatures.
Even when the climate change ostriches get something right, they're still wrong:
In 2003, 62 percent of the ocean's ice cover was older, thicker ice, with 38 percent in seasonal layers, the researchers found. Five years later, 68 percent of the ice cap was made up of seasonal ice.
Yes, dismissing claims you don't support for reasons other then the claims seems to be the logical path to take "when you can't invalidate the claims".
...thanks.
I have to offer kudos, you did assassinate this guys legitimacy pretty well. I mean an AC on a public internet forum with no reference to qualifications shooting the messenger instead of the message and blah blah blah
The AC doesn't need to provide a scanned copy of his Nobel Prize to point out that the parent was full of it.
Yes, if we can assassinate the credibility of all deniers like this
Credibility is earned, not something you're born with. Climatologists have earned credibility by doing decades of peer reviewed research with a plethora of data. Whereas the ostrich denies only have their fact-free ideology and glittering trivialities - like the canard that some ice sheets are thickening. Conveniently leaving out the fact that it's thinking due to increased precipitation - brought on by warmer temperatures.
One persistent problem for the ostriches is that even when they have something right, they're still wrong.
Shouldn't the representatives of my country (US for me too) fscking ASK the constituents if they want these damned things in the first place, rather than listen to the pitch by the private companies operating these systems (red light for sure, I think maybe the speed cameras too) telling them how much revenue they will bring in???
And how do the people in your area vote on your state and local taxes? Do you only vote for tax cutting politicians and no on any ballot measures to raise sales/property taxes? If the answer is "yes" to either of these questions, you have found the answer for why politicians are so quick to install red light/speed cameras: it's a way to raise revenues without raising taxes.
Because law enforcement should be based around noticing and investigating probable suspicion, not constant surveillance of day-to-day public activities with automatic penalties.
Not to sound like I like this sort of thing, but we didn't have privacy in the past
Of course we did. Unlike cameras, people don't watch open spaces 24/7. And unlike cameras, your face will disappear from someone's short term memory in about 3 seconds, unless they have some reason to remember you. And even if said person does remember you, that information is in their head, not permanently stored.
We have a center right party, and a crazy party. Democrats have moved to the right, and the right has moved into a mental hospital.
--Bill Maher
It's not just companies selling snake oil that's creating these problems, or politicians who don't give a damn about privacy. The third problem is: selfish, short-sighted, self-centered conservatives. You know, the ones always demanding tax cuts and that rates go up by not so much as a dime, so cities, counties, and states are forced to look towards other sources of revenue to pay for basic services.
Like raising sin taxes on cigarettes, alcohol, and traffic violations.
So, all you conservatives that hate red light cameras AND vote against any and all taxes, take your rage out on the nearest mirror until you learn that low taxes have high costs.
Where's the blockage of federal contracts to AT&T for spying on American citizens? U.S. officials have a complete lack of self-awareness on issues like spying, detention & torture:
"I have more than two hours of video footage showing Sheikh Issa's involvement in the torture of more than 25 people," wrote Texas-based lawyer Anthony Buzbee in a letter obtained by the Observer.
The news of more torture videos involving Issa is another huge blow to the international image of the UAE . . . . The fresh revelations about Issa's actions will add further doubt to a pending nuclear energy deal between the UAE and the US. The deal, signed in the final days of George W Bush, is seen as vital for the UAE. It will see the US share nuclear energy expertise, fuel and technology in return for a promise to abide by non-proliferation agreements. But the deal needs to be recertified by the Obama administration and there is growing outrage in America over the tapes. Congressman James McGovern, a senior Democrat, has demanded that Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, investigate the matter and find out why US officials initially appeared to play down its significance.
...they keep latching on to some tidbit of information and then beat it to death as if it "proves" that climate change is a hoax based on weak science. So there might be a faulty sensor in Hawaii: B. F. D. Does nothing to change the fact that there is a mountain of other evidence to rely on.
Sphincter says what? What if you were going in for open heart surgery and the nurse introduced your surgeon, and said he's "just a janitor"? How is the fact that someone is commenting outside the field of their expertise NOT relevant?
Sometimes the stupid around here makes my head hurt.
The alleged danger that cigarettes pose will never be known with acceptable certainty, and anyone who says anything one way or the other doesn't know what the hell they are talking about.
Same hand waving, same excuses.
We'll never really know for 100% certainty.
Nothing is "100% certain" in science, not even gravity. But for practical purposes, yes you can be sure that climate change is happening, and humans have been the driving cause. Deal with it.
WTF does teabagging have to do with "sexual insults"? Just what were you guys doing at your rally?
But it doesn't mean Obama has not increased the spending by almost an order of magnitude
No, he hasn't. But thanks for trying.
I guess you didn't really want a response, you just wanted to cry about GWB some more. Wah Wah Wah! Just another Big Liberal Baby who says if GWB did it, anyone else has a right to! Whatever. I didn't like his spending either and I was complaining about it then. But it doesn't mean Obama has not increased the spending by almost an order of magnitude
Translation: IOKIYARTIYAD (it's okay if you're a republican, treason if you're a democrat).
And you can certainly argue over the merits of Obama's fiscal policies. What you cannot argue is that those policies aren't a direct result of the mess that Bush and the Republicans created in the first place.
It doesn't mean that as spending increases
We're increasing spending to try and avoid another Great Depression as the economy loses half a million jobs a month.
You are so blind, if you actually went to a Tea Party you'd see it's people from all over the spectrum, not just Republicans as your narrow minded fantasy world dictates. They are they but so are smarter liberals, and of course Libertarians - the group that accidentally voted Obama into power temporarily forgetting what happens when you let any ONE party have control of everything.
Bwhahaahaha. You mean the people so damned dumb that they went out and protested the president who gave them the largest tax cut in their lives, when they ignored the Republicans who created the mess in the first place?
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War industry employees should all work for subsistence wages, and really should be volunteers if not draftees. Industrial business should not even be allowed to take profits for the duration of war.
If it's a total war for your survival (i.e. Europe in WWII), then of course everything should take a backseat to national defense. It's another story entirely when you're engaged in an aggressive war of choice like we are now.
One thing that bothers me about environmental Concern Trolls is how they pretend every solution is supposed to be one-sized-fits-all. If your actual needs are best served by getting a gas guzzling Suburban or Expedition...then go ahead and frikkin buy one.
Perhaps you missed the minor detail that the current President of the United States is actually BLACK?
Which does WHAT exactly to show that most of the wealth in this country is lily white hands or that racism is alive and well in this country?
I believe the point is that you are the one who is associating beliefs, attitudes, etc. with the color of someone's skin, and that is what actually makes YOU the racist.
Too bad you're projecting. With a cannon.
Yes, since the plural of anecdote is data, that totally absolves southern whites of any racism.
[citation needed]
Neither is making obscene, racist comments around minority officers.
This is competition, not being anti-competitive. Every company that sells trademarked or patented products has a product "monopoly". Do you also bitch & moan that you can't play Wii games on your XBox?
When, and only when, Apple obtains a market monopoly can you have some cheese to go with that whine.
But at least XP had a couple of reasons to upgrade from 2000: "run as" and instant user switching. Whereas Vista is a shit sandwich: the useful features were stripped out (WinFS), but the bloat and annoying crap (UAC) were taken to 11.
No Obelisk of Nod for you!
The president submitts a budget to Congress:
As is usually the case, take the opposite of the wingnut viewpoint and you have reality.
Rather convenient that you leave out the part where the ice is thickening due to increased precipitation - brought on by warmer temperatures.
Even when the climate change ostriches get something right, they're still wrong:
Yes, dismissing claims you don't support for reasons other then the claims seems to be the logical path to take "when you can't invalidate the claims".
...thanks.
I have to offer kudos, you did assassinate this guys legitimacy pretty well. I mean an AC on a public internet forum with no reference to qualifications shooting the messenger instead of the message and blah blah blah
The AC doesn't need to provide a scanned copy of his Nobel Prize to point out that the parent was full of it.
Yes, if we can assassinate the credibility of all deniers like this
Credibility is earned, not something you're born with. Climatologists have earned credibility by doing decades of peer reviewed research with a plethora of data. Whereas the ostrich denies only have their fact-free ideology and glittering trivialities - like the canard that some ice sheets are thickening. Conveniently leaving out the fact that it's thinking due to increased precipitation - brought on by warmer temperatures.
One persistent problem for the ostriches is that even when they have something right, they're still wrong.
Shouldn't the representatives of my country (US for me too) fscking ASK the constituents if they want these damned things in the first place, rather than listen to the pitch by the private companies operating these systems (red light for sure, I think maybe the speed cameras too) telling them how much revenue they will bring in???
And how do the people in your area vote on your state and local taxes? Do you only vote for tax cutting politicians and no on any ballot measures to raise sales/property taxes? If the answer is "yes" to either of these questions, you have found the answer for why politicians are so quick to install red light/speed cameras: it's a way to raise revenues without raising taxes.
Let's look at this
Because law enforcement should be based around noticing and investigating probable suspicion, not constant surveillance of day-to-day public activities with automatic penalties.
Not to sound like I like this sort of thing, but we didn't have privacy in the past
Of course we did. Unlike cameras, people don't watch open spaces 24/7. And unlike cameras, your face will disappear from someone's short term memory in about 3 seconds, unless they have some reason to remember you. And even if said person does remember you, that information is in their head, not permanently stored.
It's not just companies selling snake oil that's creating these problems, or politicians who don't give a damn about privacy. The third problem is: selfish, short-sighted, self-centered conservatives. You know, the ones always demanding tax cuts and that rates go up by not so much as a dime, so cities, counties, and states are forced to look towards other sources of revenue to pay for basic services.
Like raising sin taxes on cigarettes, alcohol, and traffic violations.
So, all you conservatives that hate red light cameras AND vote against any and all taxes, take your rage out on the nearest mirror until you learn that low taxes have high costs.
Where's the blockage of federal contracts to AT&T for spying on American citizens? U.S. officials have a complete lack of self-awareness on issues like spying, detention & torture:
You will need to remember, these are people with agendas.
Do you project with a cannon professionally, or is it just a hobby for you?
...they keep latching on to some tidbit of information and then beat it to death as if it "proves" that climate change is a hoax based on weak science. So there might be a faulty sensor in Hawaii: B. F. D. Does nothing to change the fact that there is a mountain of other evidence to rely on.
So what if he's "just an economist"?
Sphincter says what? What if you were going in for open heart surgery and the nurse introduced your surgeon, and said he's "just a janitor"? How is the fact that someone is commenting outside the field of their expertise NOT relevant?
Sometimes the stupid around here makes my head hurt.
The alleged danger that cigarettes pose will never be known with acceptable certainty, and anyone who says anything one way or the other doesn't know what the hell they are talking about.
Same hand waving, same excuses.
We'll never really know for 100% certainty.
Nothing is "100% certain" in science, not even gravity. But for practical purposes, yes you can be sure that climate change is happening, and humans have been the driving cause. Deal with it.
WTF does teabagging have to do with "sexual insults"? Just what were you guys doing at your rally?
But it doesn't mean Obama has not increased the spending by almost an order of magnitude
No, he hasn't. But thanks for trying.
I guess you didn't really want a response, you just wanted to cry about GWB some more. Wah Wah Wah! Just another Big Liberal Baby who says if GWB did it, anyone else has a right to! Whatever. I didn't like his spending either and I was complaining about it then. But it doesn't mean Obama has not increased the spending by almost an order of magnitude
Translation: IOKIYARTIYAD (it's okay if you're a republican, treason if you're a democrat).
And you can certainly argue over the merits of Obama's fiscal policies. What you cannot argue is that those policies aren't a direct result of the mess that Bush and the Republicans created in the first place.
It doesn't mean that as spending increases
We're increasing spending to try and avoid another Great Depression as the economy loses half a million jobs a month.
You are so blind, if you actually went to a Tea Party you'd see it's people from all over the spectrum, not just Republicans as your narrow minded fantasy world dictates. They are they but so are smarter liberals, and of course Libertarians - the group that accidentally voted Obama into power temporarily forgetting what happens when you let any ONE party have control of everything.
Bwhahaahaha. You mean the people so damned dumb that they went out and protested the president who gave them the largest tax cut in their lives, when they ignored the Republicans who created the mess in the first place?
Um.....do you have anything productive to say
I just did. Can you read?
or are you just whining?
Are you just stupid? Do you not know what happened to New Orleans in 2005?