And every single time our earth has experienced a warm period it has been a great time to be a plant or an animal.
Every single mass extinction has happened when the environment changed too fast for life to adapt. Give polar bears 20,000 years to move and adapt, and they could change from hunting seals on ice flows to climbing trees in tropical rain forests. Give them 200 years and they'll all die. Humans will be up a shit creek as well. Yeah, it's gonna be great if you can grow bananas in Siberia. Not so great if half the world's population dies off from famine.
And for that matter we are actually in the middle of an ice-age. Yes, look it up, we are basically in an intermission smack dab in the middle of an ice-age. Heating things up taint gonna hurt a thing.
When you're climbing down a stairwell, you aren't going to get hurt if you jump a few stairs at a time. So, might as well jump off the staircase entirely and save yourself climbing down a hundred feet of stairs. Same logic.
She's more useful not being in jail. Imprison her and she becomes a martyr.
She wont go to jail for the same reason her husband dropped the Iran Contra investigation, the same reason Obama didn't prosecute Bush for war crimes, the same reason Trump wont prosecute Obama for starting wars without Congressional authorization. They're all a part of the same club and aren't about to send anyone to prison least they end up there themselves.
Right now she's a washed-up has-been that's so toxic even Democrats don't want anything to do with her anymore.
With the voters, yes, but the party has been working very, very, very hard to make it clear they DGAF about the voters. From the DNC arguing in court they have the right to rig primaries to Steney Hoyer just getting taped on doing just that. The Clintons are still influence peddlers and most Democratic officials owe them favors - favors the Clintons are happy to call in.
The status quo needs to be challenged on both the domestic and international relations sides. Prior to Trump the US had been 100% predictable when it came to addressing international relations. Being predictable gives your adversaries the upper hand in almost every conflict.
You just justified Kim acting (as portrayed in western media) as a crazy hothead willing to nuke Japan.
Russia knew it could invade Crimea
Russia didn't invade shit, propagandist. Russia had an existing base in Crimea - if moving troops through there is an "invasion" then your dumb ass invades 30 locations in Germany alone each year.
and start a civil war in Ukraine because the US reaction was totally predictable.
It was the United States that overthrew the elected government of Ukraine, you nazi POS.Do try and explain why it was totally legit for the U.S. to spend five billion to 'bring Ukraine the future it deserves' but totally illigit for Russia to accept Crimeas vote to succeed from the junta.
We've not acknowledged Kim Jun Un's regime as legitimate.
Given the number of democracies overthrown by the United States and that fact that it supports three quarters of the world's dictatorships, having the U.S. judge a country's legitimacy is like setting up your sister on a blind date with Ted Bundy.
People like you said the same BS about Reagan and the dissolution of the USSR: it was all accidental, would've happened anyway, Reagan was an incompetent warmonger, blah blah blah. You simply refuse to grasp that a hardline, belligerent stance backed up with credible threats of military action actually work when facing down tyrannical dictatorships.
All that belligerence delayed the collapse of the USSR as aggressive foreign threats only inspire patriotism among the people. Same reason Ahmadinejad enjoyed popular support he wouldn't have had with constant American threats to bomb Iran for a nuclear weapons program that Bush and then Obama knew full well Iran didn't have.
Here's what really happened minus the neocon gaslighting
FTFY.
1) The U.S. killed three million Koreans in an illegal war in the 50's
2) The U.S. flattened every city in North Korea in said illegal war
3) The U.S. has been practicing invasions of North Korea every year since the 90's
North Korea's nuclear weapons are regime change insurance against your imperial warmongering. In some small back corner of your mind even you know you're full of shit here - compare the number of countries attacked by North Korea since the 50's (one, South Korea in tit for tat exchanges of artillery) to the number of countries the U.S. has bombed in just this century.
Trump surrounded NK with carriers and flew bombers off the coast. Moreover there are hard hitting sanctions that are harming Kim's ability to keep bribing his generals.
You say that like it's been a change. North Korea has been under constant threat of extermination since the 50's, and Clinton started annual practice invasions of North Korea in the 90's - that go on to this day.
North Korean nuclear weapons are regime change insurance, nothing more, nothing less. The only thing that American promises to commit genocide against them would do is get them to produce more nukes and longer range missiles, not less.
Which is all anyone needs, anyway. Costa Rica doesn't even have an army - guess how many times they've been invaded. This is about the U.S. finding an excuse to occupy as many countries as possible, not defending anyone.
we've acknowledged him as the legitimate ruler of North Korea. That's what this was about.
No. This is about the fact that Americans killed three million Koreans in an illegal war, flattening every city in the north. Americans may have let that one slip down the memory hole but they haven't - along with the dozens of democracies the CIA has overthrown since the 50's. There's also the annual practice invasions the U.S. has been running every year since the Clinton Administration. Which means every year NK has to mobilize a million people in case this time it's for real. During planting season - and then you use the resulting food shortages to complain about those craaaazy North Koreans some more.
This is about North Korea wanting to get off the Regime Change list, and it's nuclear weapons are Regime Change Insurance. Nothing more, nothing less. North Korea has tried negotiating with each new administration but are blown off teach time.
He still needs the nukes, and he won't give them up.
As long as he can blast Seoul into rubble (and he can) I just don't see him needing them. He's got plenty of deterrent right there.
Come again? A top Republican outright said attacking North Korea would be totally worth it and those hundreds of thousands of South Koreans (at least) would just be collateral damage. Democrats DGAF about civilian casualties, either - Obama was happy to send drones after children and the Clinton Administration let half a million Iraqi kids die from sanctions.
And then there's John Bolton, who's such a warmonger 'he makes Dick Cheney look like Noam Chomsky'. And Trump just named him his top advisor on warmongering. So if you were in North Korea facing that kind of history, and these kinds of war criminals, would you be so carefree in giving up your deterrence?
"hey I am thinking about trade sanctions" "lets talk"
Lulz. The next time you're at a store, just try and find a consumer product that isn't made in China. If they wanted to play hardball, all they'd have to do is block exports to the U.S. for a week and Wal-Mart alone would take of the problem for them.
NK has been saying stuff about deals forever; plenty of informed people realized that they didn't have a nutcase leader and they were going to get a position of power and some form of equality (nukes) so they could negotiate as one of the "big boys."
North Korea's threats are retaliatory - "we can hit you back if you strike us" - and their nuclear weapons program is pure regime change insurance. Americans may have forgotten that they killed three million Koreans in an illegal war, flattening every city in the north, but they haven't. Nor are they willfully blind to the annual practice invasions the U.S. has been running every year since the Clinton Administration. Which means every year NK has to mobilize a million people in case this time it's for real. During planting season - and then you use the resulting food shortages to complain about those craaaazy North Koreans some more.
"Don't hold it wrong" is another talking point. Course, there were dozens of phones where the manufacturer advises you not to hold it around the antenna, but those manufacturers weren't Apple, so you never heard about them.
All you accomplish by raising the minimum wage to $15/hr is a huge jump in inflation.
All that's accomplishing is repeating robber baron propaganda. Australia's minimum wage is already higher than that and indexed to inflation, but they pay the same price for consumer products that you do.
Have you considered decaf? Not everyone has the bandwidth (or lack of data caps) to streak 4k from Netflix, either. It doesn't have to be for everyone. Besides, higher def content would be a way to bring back physical media, though of course you'd need something faster than blue ray.
Wow, that was unexpected. Don't let the NYTimes hear you say that, though, or they'll attack you as a left wing conspiracy theorist under the sway of the Rooskies.
You speak as if the U.S. is some kind of peacemaker - like that bang-up job you did in stopping the Saudi genocide in Yemen. Not.
I'm fine occupying Europe for ever and ever. It's cheap compared to the alternative.
Europeans are infinitely more opposed to the "alternative" than you are, dotard. It's not your warmongering ass that would be the first one to go up in smoke if another world war breaks out. Which the Obama and Trump administrations have been working diligently towards, by overthrowing the government of Ukraine, placing artillery units within range of Russia's second largest city, and sending a fleet to Black Sea, the equivalent of Russia's Gulf of Mexico. Meanwhile, Russia has an economy smaller than Spain and their entire defense budget is half the size of the last increase to the American imperial budget.
So do the Japanese.
You can GTFO there, as well. The United States is far and away the greatest purveyor of violence, instability and dictatorships around the planet since WWII. You're the problem, not the solution.
I'm talking a backup to maintain "baseload power" level for dark windless days, not acting as a complete replacement in the event of a power outage (a feature also not provided by coal or nuclear power grids). The real limiting factor would be geography, as it would obviously be cheaper (and more provide more power) to build your upper tank on top of a 200m high hill as opposed to a 100m tower. So a better idea for mountainous West Virginia, not so great for flatty-flat-flat Florida.
Sure, in theory. In reality, North Korea would be legally and morally entitled to a few trillion in reparations for being bombed into rubble and decades of sanctions/practice invasions/terrorist threats.
So wanting a handful of pennies in comparison and assurances that the United States wont unilaterally attack them - not childish.
They clearly are from the implementation of socialism and government mismanagement of "the means of production" which always happens.
Mismanaged to the point their GDP tripped while lifting millions out of poverty. Like I said the first time.
So... The end state of socialism is communism. It's the logical destination.
Sounds like a communist saying it would be "logical" that as soon as you find capital investors for your landscaping business, you'll sexually harass your secretary, dump toxic waste in the river, defraud your investors, and order mob hits on your rivals. Of course, there probably has never been a communist that was that much of an idiot to suggest such "logic".
This form of government is responsible for a very large number of deaths and suppression of human rights world wide both in the past and in current events. You need to own that.
Riiiiiiight. Like you capitalists have owned up to slavery,genocide, and occupying other nations for over two centuries. Then there's the fact that all the socialist violence you'd like to whine was just a backlash to capitalist exploitation. You never would have had Castro without the brutal dictatorship of Batista. You never would have had the Soviet Union if it weren't for the Tsars.
So, the New York Times - the Grey Lady - the paper of record - a liberal's liberal - is not just a conservative newspaper, but an untrustworthy rag. Indisputably right wing. That's what you're going with? Seriously?
Yes, and I proved it to you.
I think you're really, really far left.
You wouldn't know "far left" if the entire Soviet army bit you on the ass.
There are fewer Big Deal's in science than proving established theories wrong. See the recent meta-study on how a couple glasses of wine may not be so healthy for you after all.
Climate change "skeptics" are free to come up with their own superior studies to prove their case. This is the kind of thing nobel prizes are awarded for, not to mention all the cash Exxon would be happy to give them. Until that happens, though, they're as grounded in science as anti-vaxxers are.
and fix the problems instead of the blame, as liberals (note lack of quotes, which weren't for scare, you ad hominem jerk
What ad hom. The only sort of person who could claim to be insulted would be sex and/or race baiters like this piece of shit who finds the most pathetic excuse to call Bernie Sanders a racist, while himself being a big supporter of Hillary "Superpredators" Clinton.
And it goes on and on. I'm sick of it and sick of the utterly false idea that if one politician is wrong, the other one must be right
Who's saying they are?
Universal health care better? Obviously you need to get out more.
It's a simple, empirical fact that single payer provides better care for less money. Otherwise, opponents would be hailing the for-profit American system for its superior results instead of stupid BS like "lines" in socialisticy countries. As if you don't have to wait in line in an American emergency room or wait for an appointment to see a specialist. With socialized medicine, you don't have an insurance industry employing tens of thousands of people looking for new ways to deny or limit what care they will cover, you don't have insurance companies making billions per quarter, and (thanks to free-to-use universities) you don't have doctors demanding high six figure salaries because they don't have $200,000+ in student loans to pay off.
Because no one is actually looking at this with all the facts, we all just jump on a bandwagon when we read between the lines.
Nope! Just not being willfully blind to the draconian punishment being handed down here. A reasonable fine and a suspended sentence (to be wiped after probation is completed) would be more than sufficient. And if it wasn't and the guy went back to selling restore disks...just unsuspend the sentence and then send him to jail. Instead of fucking him over the rest of his life with a federal felony conviction.
It wasn't free, it was gratis, it costs time, bandwidth, server and client storage, depreciation and an empty disk and is intended to help end-users.
So what you're saying is, this guy saved Microsoft money by using an image for $X computers instead of having each end purchaser download their own copy?
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Every single mass extinction has happened when the environment changed too fast for life to adapt. Give polar bears 20,000 years to move and adapt, and they could change from hunting seals on ice flows to climbing trees in tropical rain forests. Give them 200 years and they'll all die. Humans will be up a shit creek as well. Yeah, it's gonna be great if you can grow bananas in Siberia. Not so great if half the world's population dies off from famine.
When you're climbing down a stairwell, you aren't going to get hurt if you jump a few stairs at a time. So, might as well jump off the staircase entirely and save yourself climbing down a hundred feet of stairs. Same logic.
She wont go to jail for the same reason her husband dropped the Iran Contra investigation, the same reason Obama didn't prosecute Bush for war crimes, the same reason Trump wont prosecute Obama for starting wars without Congressional authorization. They're all a part of the same club and aren't about to send anyone to prison least they end up there themselves.
With the voters, yes, but the party has been working very, very, very hard to make it clear they DGAF about the voters. From the DNC arguing in court they have the right to rig primaries to Steney Hoyer just getting taped on doing just that. The Clintons are still influence peddlers and most Democratic officials owe them favors - favors the Clintons are happy to call in.
You just justified Kim acting (as portrayed in western media) as a crazy hothead willing to nuke Japan.
Russia didn't invade shit, propagandist. Russia had an existing base in Crimea - if moving troops through there is an "invasion" then your dumb ass invades 30 locations in Germany alone each year.
It was the United States that overthrew the elected government of Ukraine, you nazi POS. Do try and explain why it was totally legit for the U.S. to spend five billion to 'bring Ukraine the future it deserves' but totally illigit for Russia to accept Crimeas vote to succeed from the junta.
Given the number of democracies overthrown by the United States and that fact that it supports three quarters of the world's dictatorships, having the U.S. judge a country's legitimacy is like setting up your sister on a blind date with Ted Bundy.
All that belligerence delayed the collapse of the USSR as aggressive foreign threats only inspire patriotism among the people. Same reason Ahmadinejad enjoyed popular support he wouldn't have had with constant American threats to bomb Iran for a nuclear weapons program that Bush and then Obama knew full well Iran didn't have.
FTFY.
1) The U.S. killed three million Koreans in an illegal war in the 50's
2) The U.S. flattened every city in North Korea in said illegal war
3) The U.S. has been practicing invasions of North Korea every year since the 90's
North Korea's nuclear weapons are regime change insurance against your imperial warmongering. In some small back corner of your mind even you know you're full of shit here - compare the number of countries attacked by North Korea since the 50's (one, South Korea in tit for tat exchanges of artillery) to the number of countries the U.S. has bombed in just this century.
You say that like it's been a change. North Korea has been under constant threat of extermination since the 50's, and Clinton started annual practice invasions of North Korea in the 90's - that go on to this day.
North Korean nuclear weapons are regime change insurance, nothing more, nothing less. The only thing that American promises to commit genocide against them would do is get them to produce more nukes and longer range missiles, not less.
Which is all anyone needs, anyway. Costa Rica doesn't even have an army - guess how many times they've been invaded. This is about the U.S. finding an excuse to occupy as many countries as possible, not defending anyone.
Insert Luke picture here.
No. This is about the fact that Americans killed three million Koreans in an illegal war, flattening every city in the north. Americans may have let that one slip down the memory hole but they haven't - along with the dozens of democracies the CIA has overthrown since the 50's. There's also the annual practice invasions the U.S. has been running every year since the Clinton Administration. Which means every year NK has to mobilize a million people in case this time it's for real. During planting season - and then you use the resulting food shortages to complain about those craaaazy North Koreans some more.
This is about North Korea wanting to get off the Regime Change list, and it's nuclear weapons are Regime Change Insurance. Nothing more, nothing less. North Korea has tried negotiating with each new administration but are blown off teach time.
Come again? A top Republican outright said attacking North Korea would be totally worth it and those hundreds of thousands of South Koreans (at least) would just be collateral damage. Democrats DGAF about civilian casualties, either - Obama was happy to send drones after children and the Clinton Administration let half a million Iraqi kids die from sanctions.
And then there's John Bolton, who's such a warmonger 'he makes Dick Cheney look like Noam Chomsky'. And Trump just named him his top advisor on warmongering. So if you were in North Korea facing that kind of history, and these kinds of war criminals, would you be so carefree in giving up your deterrence?
Lulz. The next time you're at a store, just try and find a consumer product that isn't made in China. If they wanted to play hardball, all they'd have to do is block exports to the U.S. for a week and Wal-Mart alone would take of the problem for them.
Cool! Should NATO bomb Los Alamos down to bedrock, or should the Russians do it?
North Korea's threats are retaliatory - "we can hit you back if you strike us" - and their nuclear weapons program is pure regime change insurance. Americans may have forgotten that they killed three million Koreans in an illegal war, flattening every city in the north, but they haven't. Nor are they willfully blind to the annual practice invasions the U.S. has been running every year since the Clinton Administration. Which means every year NK has to mobilize a million people in case this time it's for real. During planting season - and then you use the resulting food shortages to complain about those craaaazy North Koreans some more.
"Don't hold it wrong" is another talking point. Course, there were dozens of phones where the manufacturer advises you not to hold it around the antenna, but those manufacturers weren't Apple, so you never heard about them.
Not when grants are awarded primarily for producing results as opposed to verifying them.
All that's accomplishing is repeating robber baron propaganda. Australia's minimum wage is already higher than that and indexed to inflation, but they pay the same price for consumer products that you do.
Have you considered decaf? Not everyone has the bandwidth (or lack of data caps) to streak 4k from Netflix, either. It doesn't have to be for everyone. Besides, higher def content would be a way to bring back physical media, though of course you'd need something faster than blue ray.
Wow, that was unexpected. Don't let the NYTimes hear you say that, though, or they'll attack you as a left wing conspiracy theorist under the sway of the Rooskies.
You speak as if the U.S. is some kind of peacemaker - like that bang-up job you did in stopping the Saudi genocide in Yemen. Not.
Europeans are infinitely more opposed to the "alternative" than you are, dotard. It's not your warmongering ass that would be the first one to go up in smoke if another world war breaks out. Which the Obama and Trump administrations have been working diligently towards, by overthrowing the government of Ukraine, placing artillery units within range of Russia's second largest city, and sending a fleet to Black Sea, the equivalent of Russia's Gulf of Mexico. Meanwhile, Russia has an economy smaller than Spain and their entire defense budget is half the size of the last increase to the American imperial budget.
You can GTFO there, as well. The United States is far and away the greatest purveyor of violence, instability and dictatorships around the planet since WWII. You're the problem, not the solution.
I'm talking a backup to maintain "baseload power" level for dark windless days, not acting as a complete replacement in the event of a power outage (a feature also not provided by coal or nuclear power grids). The real limiting factor would be geography, as it would obviously be cheaper (and more provide more power) to build your upper tank on top of a 200m high hill as opposed to a 100m tower. So a better idea for mountainous West Virginia, not so great for flatty-flat-flat Florida.
Sure, in theory. In reality, North Korea would be legally and morally entitled to a few trillion in reparations for being bombed into rubble and decades of sanctions/practice invasions/terrorist threats.
So wanting a handful of pennies in comparison and assurances that the United States wont unilaterally attack them - not childish.
Your typical capitalist projection is noted.
As is your gaslighting.
Mismanaged to the point their GDP tripped while lifting millions out of poverty. Like I said the first time.
Sounds like a communist saying it would be "logical" that as soon as you find capital investors for your landscaping business, you'll sexually harass your secretary, dump toxic waste in the river, defraud your investors, and order mob hits on your rivals. Of course, there probably has never been a communist that was that much of an idiot to suggest such "logic".
Riiiiiiight. Like you capitalists have owned up to slavery, genocide, and occupying other nations for over two centuries. Then there's the fact that all the socialist violence you'd like to whine was just a backlash to capitalist exploitation. You never would have had Castro without the brutal dictatorship of Batista. You never would have had the Soviet Union if it weren't for the Tsars.
Heads, socialism wins, tails, capitalism loses.
Yes, and I proved it to you.
You wouldn't know "far left" if the entire Soviet army bit you on the ass.
There are fewer Big Deal's in science than proving established theories wrong. See the recent meta-study on how a couple glasses of wine may not be so healthy for you after all.
Climate change "skeptics" are free to come up with their own superior studies to prove their case. This is the kind of thing nobel prizes are awarded for, not to mention all the cash Exxon would be happy to give them. Until that happens, though, they're as grounded in science as anti-vaxxers are.
What ad hom. The only sort of person who could claim to be insulted would be sex and/or race baiters like this piece of shit who finds the most pathetic excuse to call Bernie Sanders a racist, while himself being a big supporter of Hillary "Superpredators" Clinton.
Who's saying they are?
It's a simple, empirical fact that single payer provides better care for less money. Otherwise, opponents would be hailing the for-profit American system for its superior results instead of stupid BS like "lines" in socialisticy countries. As if you don't have to wait in line in an American emergency room or wait for an appointment to see a specialist. With socialized medicine, you don't have an insurance industry employing tens of thousands of people looking for new ways to deny or limit what care they will cover, you don't have insurance companies making billions per quarter, and (thanks to free-to-use universities) you don't have doctors demanding high six figure salaries because they don't have $200,000+ in student loans to pay off.
Nope! Just not being willfully blind to the draconian punishment being handed down here. A reasonable fine and a suspended sentence (to be wiped after probation is completed) would be more than sufficient. And if it wasn't and the guy went back to selling restore disks...just unsuspend the sentence and then send him to jail. Instead of fucking him over the rest of his life with a federal felony conviction.
So what you're saying is, this guy saved Microsoft money by using an image for $X computers instead of having each end purchaser download their own copy?