Because the people who get up every morning and go to work and pay their taxes are ALWAYS under attack by the Democrats. When a guy doesn't get to see his family enough because he's working 50+ hours the Democrats bitch that he's not paying his "fair share" and he needs to do more. How about a little "fair share" from the people they are always buying votes from? The bottom 10 percentile of households by income (excluding government assistance) spend more than other households up to the 60 percentile.
Why can't we move from energy sources like oil? Because most of the money to fight global warming goes to propaganda, not solutions. I have personally invested more than a year's income in a "green" company (and I have been handsomely rewarded for doing so.) They reduce energy consumption by providing combined power and heat. Electricity is generated on site and the waste heat is used for heating or absorption cooling. The generator may only be 40% efficient but because the waste heat isn't the practical efficiency can be over 80%. The technology works now and is much more cost effective than windmills or solar panels. The point is that if a tiny fraction of the propaganda money was actually invested in corporations trying to improve efficiency the problem would have been solve ten years ago. It's not about the environment. It's about socialists attacking business.
You are the one who brought up Ecuador. You know that their current lawsuit is a b/s money grab. Ecuador approved of the site's condition and SIGNED OFF ON IT!!! Quit attacking the few people left with a little common sense. You're siding with a government that is assisting FARC terrorists in Colombia.
I am paying Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield for insurance out of my own pocket because they will not do that. I took it because they are an honest company. There are other choices available if I didn't. If I couldn't afford insurance I would seek cheaper treatment in a country with a better doctor-lawyer ratio and less regulation. (I went to Colombia for a surgery about ten years ago. I saved about half on the procedure and they used more advanced technology than the FDA allowed.)
Your own link only shows Exxon putting $5M into such "propaganda." That is around 10 parts per million of their annual revenues. The global warming advocates have spent THOUSANDS of times that much on propaganda and biased research.
When you and your socialist friends get Exxon Mobile shut down their oil production will be replaced by a foreign company with a poor environmental record and the US will lose 30-40 billion dollars of tax revenue per year. That means that each American worker will have to cough up another $200 dollars in taxes because you want to wage war on American business. That tax money that America loses will probably end up in the hands of a country that spends its money oppressing its people or funding terrorism.
I also think it's illustrative that you picked one of the biggest industrial accidents to highlight and it was by a company that was 49% state owned! That means that the Indian government was actually calling the shots. Corporations don't make any money by hurting people or the environment. Lawyers are expensive.
And the hundreds of millions of people starved, executed, impoverished, enslaved, or imprisoned by bad or evil governments do not (or did not when they were still alive) believe that their governments were weak compared to corporations. Get real.
When we don't measure warming that creates a problem, no? When we do measure warming, it is from sources that look more like urban heat islands than global warming. We are committing to spending TRILLIONS of dollars to fighting global warming and we don't know if it's real yet. That means a lot of people are going to starve because of this diversion of resources, plain and simple. Those who talk with certainty about the future of the climate are lying. We DO know that the cost of dealing with global warming is much less that the cost of fighting global warming if it is real.
Alan Mulally is turning the ship of Ford Motor Co much more quickly than I ever thought possible. He has cleaned up the bureaucratic mess in Dearborn. The Fusion/Milan is moving up the charts. I drove the Fusion Hybrid the other day and it is fantastic. The new Taurus is getting very good press. The 20+ city MPG Transit Connect is going to be a no-brainer for delivery vehicles.
However, a 1991 law review paper by Gary Schwartz[9] argued that the case against the Pinto was less clear-cut than commonly supposed. Twenty-seven people died in Pinto fires. Given the Pinto's production figures (over 2 million built), this was no worse than typical for the time.
I bought a WinTec FileMate Ultra 24G from Tiger Direct that plugs into the ExpressCard Slot. I am now using that as the boot partition with reiserfs (v3), elevator=noop, and mounted noatime. This might not give the very best performance but it is much faster than the stock HD. OpenOffice loads in 2 seconds. I turned down the/sys/block/sdb/queue/read_ahead_kb but I'm not sure where it should be. I put my logs on tmpfs. Some people put the Firefox cache on tmpfs.
if we don't like the outcome of the greedy actions of others, we have to stem the encouragement of greedy actions throughout our society.
I DO like the greedy actions of others. I got food, health care, shelter, and all these cool electronics by giving money to greedy people. I am greedy, too. I go to work for money, not because of some selfless desire to produce things for society.
if i was to buy a company today, and i was a selfish bastard...
Why would a company owner be more likely to be a selfish bastard than a politician? If he was, wouldn't he have less opportunity to take advantage as a businessman than a politician?
The proof is that so many banks crashed at the same time. They were all playing by the government's rules. The slowing economy exposed the fact that all the banks had the same risk model (defined by the Fed and Community Reinvestment Act). Instead of the banks with the highest risk/reward ratio going down first and prompting the other banks to reevaluate, they all just crashed at once.
I sold vehicles for 12 years and the primary reason to get an SUV was 4 wheel drive and interior volume. A smaller chunk wanted towing capability. Very few were motivated by safety.
How many years of research went into the the Amazon Kindle screen? How many years of research went into the microturbines that we see becoming more popular? How many companies pour billions of dollars into researching medicines and medical devices? Sorry, but you are very, very wrong.
I know they do it but it's not constitutional. It is the role of private companies and they would probably have made much more progress if they didn't have to give all their profits over to the IRS. The free market puts research dollars where they will be most beneficial. Politicians put research dollars where they will buy the most votes.
What if we just put all these tabs on the Internet with their own id (we could call it a uniform resource locator) and just serve them up when you look at them?
Slashdot Mirror
Because the people who get up every morning and go to work and pay their taxes are ALWAYS under attack by the Democrats. When a guy doesn't get to see his family enough because he's working 50+ hours the Democrats bitch that he's not paying his "fair share" and he needs to do more. How about a little "fair share" from the people they are always buying votes from? The bottom 10 percentile of households by income (excluding government assistance) spend more than other households up to the 60 percentile.
Why can't we move from energy sources like oil? Because most of the money to fight global warming goes to propaganda, not solutions. I have personally invested more than a year's income in a "green" company (and I have been handsomely rewarded for doing so.) They reduce energy consumption by providing combined power and heat. Electricity is generated on site and the waste heat is used for heating or absorption cooling. The generator may only be 40% efficient but because the waste heat isn't the practical efficiency can be over 80%. The technology works now and is much more cost effective than windmills or solar panels. The point is that if a tiny fraction of the propaganda money was actually invested in corporations trying to improve efficiency the problem would have been solve ten years ago. It's not about the environment. It's about socialists attacking business.
You are the one who brought up Ecuador. You know that their current lawsuit is a b/s money grab. Ecuador approved of the site's condition and SIGNED OFF ON IT!!! Quit attacking the few people left with a little common sense. You're siding with a government that is assisting FARC terrorists in Colombia.
I am paying Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield for insurance out of my own pocket because they will not do that. I took it because they are an honest company. There are other choices available if I didn't. If I couldn't afford insurance I would seek cheaper treatment in a country with a better doctor-lawyer ratio and less regulation. (I went to Colombia for a surgery about ten years ago. I saved about half on the procedure and they used more advanced technology than the FDA allowed.)
Your own link only shows Exxon putting $5M into such "propaganda." That is around 10 parts per million of their annual revenues. The global warming advocates have spent THOUSANDS of times that much on propaganda and biased research.
When you and your socialist friends get Exxon Mobile shut down their oil production will be replaced by a foreign company with a poor environmental record and the US will lose 30-40 billion dollars of tax revenue per year. That means that each American worker will have to cough up another $200 dollars in taxes because you want to wage war on American business. That tax money that America loses will probably end up in the hands of a country that spends its money oppressing its people or funding terrorism.
I also think it's illustrative that you picked one of the biggest industrial accidents to highlight and it was by a company that was 49% state owned! That means that the Indian government was actually calling the shots. Corporations don't make any money by hurting people or the environment. Lawyers are expensive.
And the hundreds of millions of people starved, executed, impoverished, enslaved, or imprisoned by bad or evil governments do not (or did not when they were still alive) believe that their governments were weak compared to corporations. Get real.
As it is, the governments seem very weak compared to corporate power.
The biggest corporation in the world at worst can offer you take it or leave it. The lowest hourly bureaucrat can ruin your life.
I bet a dollar you don't even know how much CO2 is in the atmosphere without searching the Internet.
When we don't measure warming that creates a problem, no? When we do measure warming, it is from sources that look more like urban heat islands than global warming. We are committing to spending TRILLIONS of dollars to fighting global warming and we don't know if it's real yet. That means a lot of people are going to starve because of this diversion of resources, plain and simple. Those who talk with certainty about the future of the climate are lying. We DO know that the cost of dealing with global warming is much less that the cost of fighting global warming if it is real.
http://www.texaco.com/sitelets/ecuador/en/default.aspx
Alan Mulally is turning the ship of Ford Motor Co much more quickly than I ever thought possible. He has cleaned up the bureaucratic mess in Dearborn. The Fusion/Milan is moving up the charts. I drove the Fusion Hybrid the other day and it is fantastic. The new Taurus is getting very good press. The 20+ city MPG Transit Connect is going to be a no-brainer for delivery vehicles.
However, a 1991 law review paper by Gary Schwartz[9] argued that the case against the Pinto was less clear-cut than commonly supposed. Twenty-seven people died in Pinto fires. Given the Pinto's production figures (over 2 million built), this was no worse than typical for the time.
They seem to be good with that stuff.
I bought a WinTec FileMate Ultra 24G from Tiger Direct that plugs into the ExpressCard Slot. I am now using that as the boot partition with reiserfs (v3), elevator=noop, and mounted noatime. This might not give the very best performance but it is much faster than the stock HD. OpenOffice loads in 2 seconds. I turned down the /sys/block/sdb/queue/read_ahead_kb but I'm not sure where it should be. I put my logs on tmpfs. Some people put the Firefox cache on tmpfs.
if we don't like the outcome of the greedy actions of others, we have to stem the encouragement of greedy actions throughout our society.
I DO like the greedy actions of others. I got food, health care, shelter, and all these cool electronics by giving money to greedy people. I am greedy, too. I go to work for money, not because of some selfless desire to produce things for society.
if i was to buy a company today, and i was a selfish bastard...
Why would a company owner be more likely to be a selfish bastard than a politician? If he was, wouldn't he have less opportunity to take advantage as a businessman than a politician?
People are quite the sheep you make them out to be. Calling millions of people 'reptile brained" for buying the vehicle they wanted isn't too smart.
The proof is that so many banks crashed at the same time. They were all playing by the government's rules. The slowing economy exposed the fact that all the banks had the same risk model (defined by the Fed and Community Reinvestment Act). Instead of the banks with the highest risk/reward ratio going down first and prompting the other banks to reevaluate, they all just crashed at once.
Most accidents are not rollovers.
I sold vehicles for 12 years and the primary reason to get an SUV was 4 wheel drive and interior volume. A smaller chunk wanted towing capability. Very few were motivated by safety.
People with extraordinary skills might spend their money more wisely than the government, no?
How many years of research went into the the Amazon Kindle screen? How many years of research went into the microturbines that we see becoming more popular? How many companies pour billions of dollars into researching medicines and medical devices? Sorry, but you are very, very wrong.
I know they do it but it's not constitutional. It is the role of private companies and they would probably have made much more progress if they didn't have to give all their profits over to the IRS. The free market puts research dollars where they will be most beneficial. Politicians put research dollars where they will buy the most votes.
But why can't he be an evil genius?
Because he didn't spend 6 years in evil medical school. Duh!
(Not to assume that he won't...)
What if we just put all these tabs on the Internet with their own id (we could call it a uniform resource locator) and just serve them up when you look at them?
Does OpenBSD have any of the SELinux type security features?