Arguably, Russia's involvement in the US elections was aimed at this goal, at least in part.
Except Russia didn't do shit last year. So many Americans have joined the Birthers in believing completely-fact free hysterics. Eating up the some of the worst propaganda ever created - with a spoon. This the part where some asshat quips something like "go back to RT, Boris" - except they are as wrong now as when they ran around in 2003 smearing Iraq war skeptics as Saddam Lovers.
It has long been Russia's intent to smear the "great experiement" that is the United States of America's democracy
No. It's been their intent to rebuff all the 'evil empire' crap by pointing out American Exceptionalists throw stones in glass houses. Course, you got so butthurt over it you created a word to start throwing out to deflect from the fact that not only does your shit stink, it stinks more.
You know, stuff like complaining about how the USSR "didn't respect human rights" while keeping Jim Crow going strong in the South. Stuff like complaining about how the USSR suppresses democracy, but how dare you mention the dozens of countries overthrown by the CIA. Whining about lives lost to communism while you're busy killing millions in Korea and Vietnam.
After all, if the United States - long champion of overthrowing democracy
None of these are reasons to justify government involvement.
Of course they are.
When you own property; it is your land to "damage".
Fuck your "property rights" along with the "free market" horse it rode in on.
Exploiting land to satiate one's own greed - and to hell with everyone and everything else - is not a divine right handed down to libertarian wankers by St. Rand.
take enormous amounts of food and water to raise (draining aquifers in arid areas like California)
So do humans
No. They don't. Human water use in California is less than 15% of the state's water supply. And much of that percentage is used for swimming pools, gardens and golf courses used by rich and bourgeois shitbags. The entire 30+ million population of California could move out tomorrow, and you could hardly tell the difference - because industry uses almost all of the state's water.
SO DO HUMANS produce/release a powerful greenhouse gas.
Not via methane belches, they don't.
. You've forgotten that matter is not created in this process though --- this is a natural part of the carbon cycle.
See above.
I thought you said you had reasons that aren't to do with Vegans / PETA ?
I thought you weren't going to be so willfully obtuse? PETA would release all livestock or euthanize them. I'm quite happy to eat a hamburger, a roast chicken or a healthy helping of bacon - but not when the animal was raised knee deep in its own shit and unable to so much as turn around.
Cute you think that the servers responsible for this information will still be up in 5-10 years for any smartwatch, let alone Captain Planned obsolescence inc.
You can still sync first gen iPods with iTunes, which were made more than 10 years ago. WYP again, aside from hatorade?
When you have to compare a product revenue to a company that specialises like that you are in deep shit!
Not when high-margin products are where the money is at. Same reason Apple makes most of the money on smartphones despite having a fraction of Android's marketshare. And if your business had the choice between making the most money and selling the largest number of units...which would you choose?
Get lost, dipshit. California surpassed Wisconsin as the milk and cheese capital of the United States right through historic droughts. It takes enormous amounts of water to do that, which ranchers get by draining aquifers.
To develop ICBM's precise enough to drop a nuke on every town in the USSR or China over 25,000 people.
The stories that actually come true are the ones where people had a problem and then engineers and others tried very hard and found a way to solve it. Y2K, peak oil, population bomb, Manhattan project, The Cold War, Apollo 11, smallpox iradication, Sovaldi, hyper loop, artificial intelligence, LED lighting, etc., etc., etc.
Uh huh. And are you going to limit your beef consumption to free range steers from the nearest Amish farm, until the "free market" finds technical solutions to all the problems I mentioned?
I am aware of the horrors of factory farming, I eat little meat, and when I do, I look at the sourcing.
Uh huh. Then you know that farm animals do not have it better than wild ones, which was the point of your post. Not when the "responsibly raised" livestock make up a small fraction of the market.
A family of wild pigs where one in six piglets survives to adulthood have it much better off than a family born in gestational crates, where they can't socialize or clean themselves, much less turn around.
Fuck it it up its stupid ass. The "free market" caused the Dust Bowl, is draining aquifers in arid areas that will take thousands of years to refill, drove the dodo bird and passenger pigeon to extinction, and would do the same to bluefin tuna, rhinos, elephants, tigers and manatees.
Fuck the free market.
There are plenty of reasons to reduce beef production that don't have anything to do with hippies, vegans or PETA. Cattle cause damage to the land, take enormous amounts of food and water to raise (draining aquifers in arid areas like California), produce a powerful greenhouse gas and are raised in brutal factory farms where they walk knee deep in their own waste and carried by forklifts to processing when they are too sick to even walk.
If we're wanting to go with a more plant based diet, doesn't it seem correct that we need more CO2 in the atmosphere and warmer temperatures to ensure we have sufficient plant growth year round to meet demand?
Why, when we've been overproducing carbon dioxide since the industrial revolution? And the carbon taken out of the air would just be carbon again on the topsoil - it's not sequestering it deep underground to replace all the oil and coal that has been burned.
Taking an idea to its logical extreme to demonstrate its absurdity is a valid technique.
Not if one is being a dumbass concern troll. Where's the pain receptors or nervous system on a planet? Which plants are as smart as a two year old human the way pigs are?
WYP? A hamburger at Arby's will taste different from a hamburger from Jack in the Box. The point is to try it and see....if you can stop being a doosh long enough to do so.
People should eat what they want. They want beef, they pay for beef, they should get beef.
Even at the cost of destroying land, generating large amounts of a powerful greenhouse gas, draining aquifers in arid areas to give them water, packing them so tightly in factory farms they're knee deep in their own waste - what isn't there for a conservative to love here?
Feedlots where cattle are knee deep in their own shit and get so sick they have to be picked up by forklifts, pigs are raised in "gestational crates" so tight they cannot turn around, chickens that trample each other to death before being violently thrown into cages by farm hands.
The overwhelming majority of U.S. meat is raised on such farms, not living in an Amish free range paradise.
When you take into account the fact that factory farms raise 99.9 percent of chickens for meat, 97 percent of laying hens, 99 percent of turkeys, 95 percent of pigs, and 78 percent of cattle currently sold in the United States, it's shocking how much time we waste debating each other, rather than trying to actually change the system.
Smart watches act as an extension of your smart phone.
No they don't. The pre-LTE ones, perhaps, but this is 2017.
In 2017, can you use a smartwatch to edit a document, connect via remote desktop to a computer, use it as a portable drive to move a hundred gigabytes of files, download a Netflix series to watch wile on your morning commute, etc etc.
Smart watches are no substitute for a smart phone, and as the Venn diagram of smart watch owners and watch owners who have a smartphone is going to be a complete overlap.....yes, the primary purpose of a watch will be an extension of your phone. That you can now leave your phone at home but still take an important call while going on a jog doesn't change that fact.
And the only "free market" is one that is open for buyers and sellers to freely enter to exchange money for goods and services. The only way to maintain openness is through a set of rules that are constantly and evenly enforced. There's a term for consistent and evenly enforced rules.
We absolutely should send them federal aid, and then we should bill their insurance just like the paramedics do and the way firefighters ought to. Having such insurance should be a prerequisite to joining the union, except we have no formal way to kick out a state if they don't follow the rules. In that way, the USA is kind of like a roach motel--you can check in but you can't check out!
Good idea. You can take it out of the trillion dollars the U.S. should give Puerto Rico as reparations for colonialism.
the Red State we're talking about, Texas, gives more than it takes
Which is the only red state to do so, and a good chunk of the tax revenue is driven by federal spending (NASA, military bases, border patrol). So while I applaud the misdirection....
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You whined about a source without bothering to address anything stated. Which means you concede the point, because if you could rebut it, you would.
Except Russia didn't do shit last year. So many Americans have joined the Birthers in believing completely-fact free hysterics. Eating up the some of the worst propaganda ever created - with a spoon. This the part where some asshat quips something like "go back to RT, Boris" - except they are as wrong now as when they ran around in 2003 smearing Iraq war skeptics as Saddam Lovers.
No. It's been their intent to rebuff all the 'evil empire' crap by pointing out American Exceptionalists throw stones in glass houses. Course, you got so butthurt over it you created a word to start throwing out to deflect from the fact that not only does your shit stink, it stinks more.
You know, stuff like complaining about how the USSR "didn't respect human rights" while keeping Jim Crow going strong in the South. Stuff like complaining about how the USSR suppresses democracy, but how dare you mention the dozens of countries overthrown by the CIA. Whining about lives lost to communism while you're busy killing millions in Korea and Vietnam.
Fixed that for you.
So you get two days charge instead of three. First world problems....
Of course they are.
Fuck your "property rights" along with the "free market" horse it rode in on.
Exploiting land to satiate one's own greed - and to hell with everyone and everything else - is not a divine right handed down to libertarian wankers by St. Rand.
No. They don't. Human water use in California is less than 15% of the state's water supply. And much of that percentage is used for swimming pools, gardens and golf courses used by rich and bourgeois shitbags. The entire 30+ million population of California could move out tomorrow, and you could hardly tell the difference - because industry uses almost all of the state's water.
Not via methane belches, they don't.
See above.
I thought you weren't going to be so willfully obtuse? PETA would release all livestock or euthanize them. I'm quite happy to eat a hamburger, a roast chicken or a healthy helping of bacon - but not when the animal was raised knee deep in its own shit and unable to so much as turn around.
Yup.
Where's this talking point coming from? You can still sync a first gen iPod with iTunes. You can still use USB devices made at the dawn of time.
You can still sync first gen iPods with iTunes, which were made more than 10 years ago. WYP again, aside from hatorade?
/rollseyes
As if there's any guarantee any watch will be working in 20 years without maintenance. Calm yourself, Sparky.
As much as Fanroid owners are literally proud to own phones that double as land mines, sure.
And what vintage is the hatorade? Replace the battery in the old iWatch and it will run circles around the Rolex as long as it's functional.
It's not. Turn it off at night and it's easy to get two days out of a single charge, frequently three.
Not when high-margin products are where the money is at. Same reason Apple makes most of the money on smartphones despite having a fraction of Android's marketshare. And if your business had the choice between making the most money and selling the largest number of units...which would you choose?
Get lost, dipshit. California surpassed Wisconsin as the milk and cheese capital of the United States right through historic droughts. It takes enormous amounts of water to do that, which ranchers get by draining aquifers.
To develop ICBM's precise enough to drop a nuke on every town in the USSR or China over 25,000 people.
Uh huh. And are you going to limit your beef consumption to free range steers from the nearest Amish farm, until the "free market" finds technical solutions to all the problems I mentioned?
Didn't think so.
Uh huh. Then you know that farm animals do not have it better than wild ones, which was the point of your post. Not when the "responsibly raised" livestock make up a small fraction of the market.
A family of wild pigs where one in six piglets survives to adulthood have it much better off than a family born in gestational crates, where they can't socialize or clean themselves, much less turn around.
Fuck it it up its stupid ass. The "free market" caused the Dust Bowl, is draining aquifers in arid areas that will take thousands of years to refill, drove the dodo bird and passenger pigeon to extinction, and would do the same to bluefin tuna, rhinos, elephants, tigers and manatees.
Fuck the free market.
There are plenty of reasons to reduce beef production that don't have anything to do with hippies, vegans or PETA. Cattle cause damage to the land, take enormous amounts of food and water to raise (draining aquifers in arid areas like California), produce a powerful greenhouse gas and are raised in brutal factory farms where they walk knee deep in their own waste and carried by forklifts to processing when they are too sick to even walk.
Why, when we've been overproducing carbon dioxide since the industrial revolution? And the carbon taken out of the air would just be carbon again on the topsoil - it's not sequestering it deep underground to replace all the oil and coal that has been burned.
Not if one is being a dumbass concern troll. Where's the pain receptors or nervous system on a planet? Which plants are as smart as a two year old human the way pigs are?
WYP? A hamburger at Arby's will taste different from a hamburger from Jack in the Box. The point is to try it and see....if you can stop being a doosh long enough to do so.
Even at the cost of destroying land, generating large amounts of a powerful greenhouse gas, draining aquifers in arid areas to give them water, packing them so tightly in factory farms they're knee deep in their own waste - what isn't there for a conservative to love here?
Feedlots where cattle are knee deep in their own shit and get so sick they have to be picked up by forklifts, pigs are raised in "gestational crates" so tight they cannot turn around, chickens that trample each other to death before being violently thrown into cages by farm hands.
The overwhelming majority of U.S. meat is raised on such farms, not living in an Amish free range paradise.
In 2017, can you use a smartwatch to edit a document, connect via remote desktop to a computer, use it as a portable drive to move a hundred gigabytes of files, download a Netflix series to watch wile on your morning commute, etc etc.
Smart watches are no substitute for a smart phone, and as the Venn diagram of smart watch owners and watch owners who have a smartphone is going to be a complete overlap.....yes, the primary purpose of a watch will be an extension of your phone. That you can now leave your phone at home but still take an important call while going on a jog doesn't change that fact.
Probably with the It's Different For Me exception that right-wingers have always used.
And the only "free market" is one that is open for buyers and sellers to freely enter to exchange money for goods and services. The only way to maintain openness is through a set of rules that are constantly and evenly enforced. There's a term for consistent and evenly enforced rules.
Regulation.
Good idea. You can take it out of the trillion dollars the U.S. should give Puerto Rico as reparations for colonialism.
Which is the only red state to do so, and a good chunk of the tax revenue is driven by federal spending (NASA, military bases, border patrol). So while I applaud the misdirection....