I'll bet you also think it's OK to go through a red light if no one is around.
Actually no, I'm not. You're jumping to a rather hasty conclusion there.
My "flippant quip" as you put it is hardly burrying my head in the sand. Rather than assume mankind is responsible for global warming (which I don't think I said it wasn't) for whatever reason you seem to I thought I'd bring up something that I often see completely and blatantly overlooked by people who are so concerned about the causes of global warming. The point being, if you look at global warming objectively you'll find there is plenty of evidence (like volcanos spewing enormous amounts of Carbon Dioxide into the atmosphere) that, while man play a role in global warming, man is likely not the only cause, nor is man likely the major cause. Volcanos are a force of nature. I am not defending Bush, what I am defending is a reasoned approach to how we shape our environmental policy seeing as how it very well be a matter that was never in our control to begin with (cause as far as I know we haven't figured out how to control volcanos and the Sun).
I didn't defend anyone. I tried to illustrate the absurdity of the people who jump all over the Bush administration for global warming. Granted the person I responded to did it in an admitedly level headed way. But, I would not be lying if I said I have seen people go into seething rages when global warming and Bush are mentioned in the same sentence and then procede to go on tirades like the one I did with sarcasm and believe every single word of it whole heartedly.
That is a distinction without a difference. Blaming someone for a cover up and for protecting oil companies is essentially the same thing. In any other "wrong doing" if you cover up the deed or attempt to protect it are you not as guilty as the party who did it? Your implying that the current administration is helping out those who are responsible for global warming is implying that the current administration is responsible for global warming as well.
While we're on the topic of things that contribute to global warming cleaning up their mess I say we need to rally in protest of those damn volcanos constantly spewing all that Carbon Dioxide into the atmosphere and get them to clean up after themselves!
And I'm sure BushCheneyCo (tm) and his big cabal of corrupt campaign contributors aren't responsible for previous warming (and cooling) periods either... They say they aren't, so that means they really must be cause anyone who says their not all dirty profit driven corporate beholden liars is either bought out by them or is so dumb they've been duped by BushCheneyCo (tm) and his big cabal of corrupt campaign contributors.
At the risk of destroying the effectiveness of my post I'd like to clarify that that was sarcasm.
But if no one pays for it the likelyhood of it being produced is a lot less. People won't make it if it won't sell. Well... normally that's how things work... I guess for child pornography that line of reasoning may fly out the window cause you're dealing with people who get off on abusing children.
Gold farmers aren't ALL bad. Sometimes they speak pretty decent english and actually know what to do in UBRS. Other times they can't even find the instance...
It IS socially acceptable. But when you have the recording industry lobbying the politicians for laws like this what is and isn't socially acceptable no longer matters.
Agreed 100%. When I was 7 and I first saw episode 4 that is one of the reasons it was so awesome to me. Because here was a kid (albeit a much older one than me at the time) who is plucked out of his normal boring life and thrust into adventure and in the process learns of things far beyond the scope of being a moisture farmer. If they were to show Luke having all sorts of Jedi adventures as a child it'd RUIN it. Remember when he mey Obi Wan and Obi Wan mentions the force and Luke is all "the force? what's that?"? Luke had NO clue what he was getting into, and that's part of what made his character a real hero.
Population growth is most likely to reach a sustainable limit and level off for a LONG time until we find a way to move beyond the Earth. Most industrialized countries are experiencing population shrinkage (the US would be if it wasn't for immigration). As more and more countries approach a point of full industrialization their demographics will likely shift in much the same way everyone elses has. They will go from booming populations to slowly growing ones to ones that oscillate over long periods of time to reach a sustainable limit. I've heard that this limit is as low as 20 billion people. Birth rates in industrial nations do not much outpace death rates because wealthier better educated people simply do not (on average) have 8 kids.
Ahhhh, spoken like a person who has no real understanding of the history of science. Are you aware that essentially *all* applied scientific knowledge and applications are derived from basic science research? Nuclear power, the Internet, genetics, medicine, and more. Applied research that corporations and private companies are interested in is generally applied research that is only made possible after the basic science work has been done.
Through out ALL of mankinds history how much of the basics of scientific advancement have ben primarily funded by the US government? And in the future how much funding is necessary to continue development? Throwing money at scientific community doesn't guarantee advancement in anything, basic or practical.
Companies do and will continue to fund basic kinds of scientific research based on the hope that it will lead to practical applications.
This is based on the number of existing grants that have been failed to be renewed from senior investigators due to reduced funding, the number of jobs that have been eliminated by even recent cuts this year (many labs have had their grants cut by 20% this year alone), and the number of post-docs that have failed to achieve more permanent academic positions in the past few years.
You can mod this redundant because someone has posted this already below, but... doesn't look like the budget is being cut all that much to me at all. In fact it looks like this administration greatly increased it and is now slightly decreasing it.
Yes, this administration single handedly is going to destroy biological science research... Give me a break. People and companies will do research so long as it remains profitable to do so. Sorry if profit isn't an altruistic enough motivation for you, but it happens to be the best motivation there is. There is serious potential for advancement in our knowledge of biology and the practical applications of it and it will happen regardless of whether or not the government funds it. Also, on what do you make this prediction that it'd take 10 years to repair the "damage" anyways?
I'm not exactly a fan of In Flames (I think they're rather boring and cheesy as far as metal goes) but I agree with your larger point. I cannot name one popular song within the last decade that I thought was actually good. No one in mainstream society has heard of the bands I listen to. Good music is out there, but you won't find it on the radio and you'll be lucky to find it in a CD store. Every once in a while I'll find something good, but it's probably the least selling CD in the store.
I listen to hardcore. The recording is almost always going to be bad. So compressing it doesn't really mean much of a loss in quality. Not everyone listens to music that is ever going to be recorded on decent equipment. And not everyone wants to. I like my music to sound dirty.
I dunno the difference is pretty clear to me. First link: tanks and troops fighting with civilians. Second link: nice buildings and a happy looking tourist couple. But searching in chinese would probably reveal even more of a difference.
That's because no one here in America has any concept of saving up in case of emergencies. They'd rather spend their money now on stuff they really don't need than save it in case they have to shell out tons of money for a hospitol bill. I'm super paranoid about it, and I will be prepared, even without insurace.
Video games are not the focal point of my views on politics. But a policians attitude towards video games gives deep insight into whether or not they believe we as citizens are capable of taking care of our own lives. And that is a very important issue with me.
"Education has nothing to do with income"
Every single statistical study I've ever seen disagrees. Yeah personal drive is what ultimately will determine how well to do you are financialy. But you cannot deny the STRONG correlation and casual relationship between education and income and the opportunity for greater income. Simply put, jobs that require no education will rarely pay as much as jobs that require a high school diploma, and those jobs that will rarely pay as much as jobs that require a college degree, and those jobs will rarely pay as much as jobs that require a PHD. You can still suceed with little education if you try hard at what you do and do good at it. But a good education almost guarantees financial success.
I've worked at a company where the IT department at our location was notorious for being incompetant and largely ineffective. However from what I was told by other employees who had been there far longer than I that it didn't always use to be that way. When the company got bought out the new parent company crippled our IT department and turned them into a group of people who hated their jobs. The problems we experienced had little to do with the IT department itself but rather with the people managing the IT department. They gutted their budget to the point where making purchase orders for new parts that were 100% justifiable and necessary was like pulling teeth. They introduced dozens of prodcedural hoops that had to be jumped through anything was done that reduced response time to a snail-like pace. So really it's not that the IT department was even incompetant (many of the people who worked there when I did had been there before the company had been bought out and had performed well at one point), it's that the senior management tied their hands and made getting the tools for their job a nightmare (in the name of saving money in the short term, but it lead to loss of money in the long term). It isn't always IT's fault when they don't perform up to the users standards. Sometimes they just don't have the resources to do so even if the people working there are top notch.
You crticize the Bible and the worst that will happen is a Christian will try to refute the criticism (sometimes doing a good job, sometimes coming off as a nutcase). You critize the Qu'ran and the least that will happen is all of the Muslim world delcaires a fatwa on you and your country (always coming off as nutcases).
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I'll bet you also think it's OK to go through a red light if no one is around.
Actually no, I'm not. You're jumping to a rather hasty conclusion there.
My "flippant quip" as you put it is hardly burrying my head in the sand. Rather than assume mankind is responsible for global warming (which I don't think I said it wasn't) for whatever reason you seem to I thought I'd bring up something that I often see completely and blatantly overlooked by people who are so concerned about the causes of global warming. The point being, if you look at global warming objectively you'll find there is plenty of evidence (like volcanos spewing enormous amounts of Carbon Dioxide into the atmosphere) that, while man play a role in global warming, man is likely not the only cause, nor is man likely the major cause. Volcanos are a force of nature. I am not defending Bush, what I am defending is a reasoned approach to how we shape our environmental policy seeing as how it very well be a matter that was never in our control to begin with (cause as far as I know we haven't figured out how to control volcanos and the Sun).
I didn't defend anyone. I tried to illustrate the absurdity of the people who jump all over the Bush administration for global warming. Granted the person I responded to did it in an admitedly level headed way. But, I would not be lying if I said I have seen people go into seething rages when global warming and Bush are mentioned in the same sentence and then procede to go on tirades like the one I did with sarcasm and believe every single word of it whole heartedly.
That is a distinction without a difference. Blaming someone for a cover up and for protecting oil companies is essentially the same thing. In any other "wrong doing" if you cover up the deed or attempt to protect it are you not as guilty as the party who did it? Your implying that the current administration is helping out those who are responsible for global warming is implying that the current administration is responsible for global warming as well.
While we're on the topic of things that contribute to global warming cleaning up their mess I say we need to rally in protest of those damn volcanos constantly spewing all that Carbon Dioxide into the atmosphere and get them to clean up after themselves!
And I'm sure BushCheneyCo (tm) and his big cabal of corrupt campaign contributors aren't responsible for previous warming (and cooling) periods either... They say they aren't, so that means they really must be cause anyone who says their not all dirty profit driven corporate beholden liars is either bought out by them or is so dumb they've been duped by BushCheneyCo (tm) and his big cabal of corrupt campaign contributors.
At the risk of destroying the effectiveness of my post I'd like to clarify that that was sarcasm.
I'd mod you up, but I'd rather post and say how correct you are.
No one gets rich or stays rich by just spending their money on their every whim.
But if no one pays for it the likelyhood of it being produced is a lot less. People won't make it if it won't sell. Well... normally that's how things work... I guess for child pornography that line of reasoning may fly out the window cause you're dealing with people who get off on abusing children.
Gold farmers aren't ALL bad. Sometimes they speak pretty decent english and actually know what to do in UBRS. Other times they can't even find the instance...
None! And it's all because of a neo-con plot to control us with fear and keep us from knowing what our government is really up to! /sarcasm
It IS socially acceptable. But when you have the recording industry lobbying the politicians for laws like this what is and isn't socially acceptable no longer matters.
But it does need the students money.
I used to be an anarchist till I realized I love paved roads and working sewage treatment systems.
Agreed 100%. When I was 7 and I first saw episode 4 that is one of the reasons it was so awesome to me. Because here was a kid (albeit a much older one than me at the time) who is plucked out of his normal boring life and thrust into adventure and in the process learns of things far beyond the scope of being a moisture farmer. If they were to show Luke having all sorts of Jedi adventures as a child it'd RUIN it. Remember when he mey Obi Wan and Obi Wan mentions the force and Luke is all "the force? what's that?"? Luke had NO clue what he was getting into, and that's part of what made his character a real hero.
Population growth is most likely to reach a sustainable limit and level off for a LONG time until we find a way to move beyond the Earth. Most industrialized countries are experiencing population shrinkage (the US would be if it wasn't for immigration). As more and more countries approach a point of full industrialization their demographics will likely shift in much the same way everyone elses has. They will go from booming populations to slowly growing ones to ones that oscillate over long periods of time to reach a sustainable limit. I've heard that this limit is as low as 20 billion people. Birth rates in industrial nations do not much outpace death rates because wealthier better educated people simply do not (on average) have 8 kids.
Ahhhh, spoken like a person who has no real understanding of the history of science. Are you aware that essentially *all* applied scientific knowledge and applications are derived from basic science research? Nuclear power, the Internet, genetics, medicine, and more. Applied research that corporations and private companies are interested in is generally applied research that is only made possible after the basic science work has been done. Through out ALL of mankinds history how much of the basics of scientific advancement have ben primarily funded by the US government? And in the future how much funding is necessary to continue development? Throwing money at scientific community doesn't guarantee advancement in anything, basic or practical. Companies do and will continue to fund basic kinds of scientific research based on the hope that it will lead to practical applications. This is based on the number of existing grants that have been failed to be renewed from senior investigators due to reduced funding, the number of jobs that have been eliminated by even recent cuts this year (many labs have had their grants cut by 20% this year alone), and the number of post-docs that have failed to achieve more permanent academic positions in the past few years. You can mod this redundant because someone has posted this already below, but... doesn't look like the budget is being cut all that much to me at all. In fact it looks like this administration greatly increased it and is now slightly decreasing it.
Yes, this administration single handedly is going to destroy biological science research... Give me a break. People and companies will do research so long as it remains profitable to do so. Sorry if profit isn't an altruistic enough motivation for you, but it happens to be the best motivation there is. There is serious potential for advancement in our knowledge of biology and the practical applications of it and it will happen regardless of whether or not the government funds it. Also, on what do you make this prediction that it'd take 10 years to repair the "damage" anyways?
I'm not exactly a fan of In Flames (I think they're rather boring and cheesy as far as metal goes) but I agree with your larger point. I cannot name one popular song within the last decade that I thought was actually good. No one in mainstream society has heard of the bands I listen to. Good music is out there, but you won't find it on the radio and you'll be lucky to find it in a CD store. Every once in a while I'll find something good, but it's probably the least selling CD in the store.
I listen to hardcore. The recording is almost always going to be bad. So compressing it doesn't really mean much of a loss in quality. Not everyone listens to music that is ever going to be recorded on decent equipment. And not everyone wants to. I like my music to sound dirty.
I dunno the difference is pretty clear to me. First link: tanks and troops fighting with civilians. Second link: nice buildings and a happy looking tourist couple. But searching in chinese would probably reveal even more of a difference.
Because google lives in America and it is governed by their rules.
That's because no one here in America has any concept of saving up in case of emergencies. They'd rather spend their money now on stuff they really don't need than save it in case they have to shell out tons of money for a hospitol bill. I'm super paranoid about it, and I will be prepared, even without insurace.
Video games are not the focal point of my views on politics. But a policians attitude towards video games gives deep insight into whether or not they believe we as citizens are capable of taking care of our own lives. And that is a very important issue with me.
I too play video games. And I too vote.
"Education has nothing to do with income" Every single statistical study I've ever seen disagrees. Yeah personal drive is what ultimately will determine how well to do you are financialy. But you cannot deny the STRONG correlation and casual relationship between education and income and the opportunity for greater income. Simply put, jobs that require no education will rarely pay as much as jobs that require a high school diploma, and those jobs that will rarely pay as much as jobs that require a college degree, and those jobs will rarely pay as much as jobs that require a PHD. You can still suceed with little education if you try hard at what you do and do good at it. But a good education almost guarantees financial success.
I've worked at a company where the IT department at our location was notorious for being incompetant and largely ineffective. However from what I was told by other employees who had been there far longer than I that it didn't always use to be that way. When the company got bought out the new parent company crippled our IT department and turned them into a group of people who hated their jobs. The problems we experienced had little to do with the IT department itself but rather with the people managing the IT department. They gutted their budget to the point where making purchase orders for new parts that were 100% justifiable and necessary was like pulling teeth. They introduced dozens of prodcedural hoops that had to be jumped through anything was done that reduced response time to a snail-like pace. So really it's not that the IT department was even incompetant (many of the people who worked there when I did had been there before the company had been bought out and had performed well at one point), it's that the senior management tied their hands and made getting the tools for their job a nightmare (in the name of saving money in the short term, but it lead to loss of money in the long term). It isn't always IT's fault when they don't perform up to the users standards. Sometimes they just don't have the resources to do so even if the people working there are top notch.
You crticize the Bible and the worst that will happen is a Christian will try to refute the criticism (sometimes doing a good job, sometimes coming off as a nutcase). You critize the Qu'ran and the least that will happen is all of the Muslim world delcaires a fatwa on you and your country (always coming off as nutcases).
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