Your comments mean nothing without data backing them up. Actually, MOST of these comments mean nothing. They are factless assertions. Lets see some numbers. I think you'll be surprised how much money Wall Street splashes around, and how evenly it gets splashed.... Big Pharma gives out PLENTY to everyone. I don't think the media actually donates that much. I think you meant Hollywood. Anyway. Data or it didn't happen.
I can tell you are partisan, because you made NO attempt to name any names that donated to the republican party. I'm not saying the Ds are innocent. I'm only saying that your comment is clearly biased. Do you think we can't find big donors for the Rs? Which do you think pulls in more money from special interests? I'm sure the data is there to find, and we can look at it in an unbiased manner instead of just spouting your own opinion as if it's fact.
Lets go to OpenSecrets: http://www.opensecrets.org/ove... Now, I'm not sure this list includes dark money, or money funneled through PACs, which don't have to disclose their donors...
Now, if you're sick of this, why not do something about it? Join Wolf-PAC.com or look up the MayDay PAC. Help out. Volunteer.
Congress has a 10% approval rating. Yet 100% of the folks up for reelection won. We have less than 50% voter turnout. If those lazy slobs all voted independant, we'd have a completely different country. The country's problems are clearly OUR FAULT.
Everyone talks a big game about revolution, but we can't get 50% of the country to put in a few hours effort every few years to clean out congress. It's pretty fuck'in sad really. Apathy sucks.
Also, people that don't vote shouldn't have any right to complain, IMO.
Most people drive less than 15 miles a day, to and from work. That won't touch a fully charged electric. It can recharge at night, or while it's sitting at work.
I'd love to have an all electric. No more oil changes. No more stupid consumables. It'll be almost maintenance free.... Soooooo many less moving parts. Lube it up once in a while, update the firmware, and that's that.
I'm not pretending solar is as cheap as coal. I'm saying it is, 'cause I read the news. I also work in semiconductor manufacturing, and there are some nasty chemicals.... but producing solar panels really doesn't produce any significant carbon. And no, if I want solar and wind power, which work great, have no radioactive waste, can be put on rooftops, don't suffer from NIMBYism, etc etc etc, I am not a bad guy for wanting to bring on "climate change".
You're wrong on every single point except that lithium is not cheap. You're probably wrong on the cost of the care though... Soooo many less moving parts. No Engine. The battery IS pricey. It'll come down.... And the charge times are not long.
Are you a shill, or just really really uninformed? Ah, my bad, logical fallacy: black or white. Sorry......
Actually, most of the price drop is probably due to chinese manufacturers, which get huge government subsidies from their government. They do that on purpose, to corner the market and grow their own home industry. That do that on quite a few things. And it works out well for them. Subsidies! Yeah! Anyway....
And lets face it, nuke plants suffer from massive NIMBYism. Then there's the waste. And the fear. Lots of fear.
30 billion for 30 years is 1 billion a year. divide by 300 million americans... $3. Total. a year. Ok, I get that the site didn't get built. It might have. Not everything succeeds. There were probably a lot of studies, some decent research, work was done. it's $3 a year to pay for nuclear waste disposal. Stop whining.
Yes, I know the population changed and my math isn't perfect. It's napkin math. You still made it out to be a huge theft. It's $3. You're an anonymous whiner.
I did use an outhouse. I kind of still do. composting toilet... When I was growing up we had a gravity fed "well". It was a hole in the ground and a pipe running downhill to the house. We used to get tadpoles in our bath water.:D I miss those days sometimes. Nostalgia is a bitch, that log cabin was DRAFTY. Dad was a shit carpenter.:D
Thank FSM I got a good public education that enabled me to go to college (thank you government for helping me out there too) so I could get a great job and pay back far more in taxes than I ever took for all that help with lunches and tuition. Now I'm educated and enabled. If I EVER have to do that again, I can look up slow sand water filters on the internet and filter my water. I'm a much better carpenter, but I have the internet to help me out. I also have home depot, public roads, building codes, etc etc etc.
To hijack it BACK to fural internet access, my childhood would have been a lot cooler if we'd had rural internet access. I could have built slow sand filters. I could have read up on waste disposal and perhaps our outhouse wouldn't have leaked into that stream. I could have looked up plant propogation and told dad that crazy scheme to have an apple orchard wouldn't have worked.... Or I could have helped him figure out how to make it work. We would have had access to animal husbandry articles. We would have had access to a whole wealth of knowledge and best known practices designed for the third world and perfectly usable to a poor as shit family living in poor rural Washington in a home built log cabin. Our lives would have been massively better with access to more knowledge.
And there are a bunch of jerks here arguing against it on the basis that taxation is theft, while THEY got to enjoy the fruits of modern society.
I need the post office, but I'm a small businessman who needs to ship things. I'm a job and wealth creator instead of a plebian like you. I quite like socialism for basic infrastructure. It enables me. You just take for granted all that you have due to "socialism".
I don't want to live in a world where the employees i'm trying to hire can't read or write because they didn't get a public education. I don't want to live in a world where I don't have a postal service to get my supplies in and my goods out. I don't want to live in a society where I have to pay road tolls every mile because there are only privater roads. I don't want to do business in a society that has completely different laws in every fucking hamlet I try to do business in.
I'm really starting to hate you small government anti socialist morons. You have NO IDEA what you're talking about. The world you describe is imaginary. It's never going to happen and you're dragging us all down into stupidity arguing about it. It's not going to happen, and I don't WANT it to happen. You don't either, but you're basically all ingrates arguing against basic services that you take for granted.
Go live in a village in Afghanistan. No taxes, but some warlord will come by once a month to take some of your produce.You'll live in a hut cobbled together from sticks and mud, because no decent business selling modern construction equipment or supplies can possibly operate in that environment. Oh, and no electricity either... See what no government, no taxes, no infrastructure, and REAL THEFT are like.
I take offense at that "sensible choices" crack. It's a really !@#$ing annoying myth that poor people are poor due to their own choices. I know a lot of poor people that work WAY harder than you ever will. I grew up dirt poor. I got help from the government with food, education, etc. I got lucky, and made it, and I've payed back what I took in help, and then some...
You're basically just putting other people down, and doing so against people you don't like. It's a sterotype, and a myth, and your attitude says more about your lack of empathy than it does about those non existant people that "didn't make sensible choices and don't want to deal with the consequences".
I'm old enough to see that a VAST majority of people make pretty shitty decisions all the time, and that pretty much everyone has no idea how to live their lives. Everyone's making it up as they go along. Naturally, all of YOUR decisions are excellent ones, I'm sure. You've never had help from anyone in your whole life when things didn't work out.
It's always "those people" over there that are ruining everything.
Uh... Solar is at price parity with coal these days, last I saw. And the future points to more expensive non renewable energy. Uhm. Cars in general, gas or electric, need iron and aluminum. Anyway. Ten times energy costs for wind over fossil fuels or nuclear? No. Um. ugh. Every paragraph you wrote is full of "Uhm No".
The names changed through history, and you know that. The "southern democrats" that you are referencing were folding into the Republican party a long time ago, and you know it. You're just doublespeaking.
I think you need to stop listening to YOUR side tell you what I'm for, and listen to ME tell you what I'm for.
I am not opposed to free markets. I am opposed to unregulated markets. Everyone needs to play fair. I support freedom of religion, despite being an Atheist. You can believe whatever stupid thing you want as long as you don't push it on me. Keep it in YOUR head, and in your house. Keep it out of mine. I own a gun. Yes, I support Unions, because the alternative is to tell people they can't form associations? No.... I don't support slavery. That's absurd. Actually, your whole post is absurd.... Never mind...
Peak Oil has been reached. That's WHY we're fracking, and why we're doing all that deep offshore drilling. Basically, all the easy to get stuff is gone man... it's all downhill from here.
Uhm. That sounds pretty good to me.:D Lots of nature, blameless lives, lots of frugality and recyling, good music, good drugs, plentiful weed, and loose women. Why are conservatives fighting us again?:D Heheheheheh
His scenario happens all the time. It's not rare at all. And it's a small village! You hang out with who you hang out with. If they ARE militants, they have guns and men. Are you going to stand up to them? Hell no.
You need to read more. Vice has some excellent videos from the ground over there. Check 'em out on Youtube.
regligion? infidels? warlord prophet? Who's the warlord prophet? slaughtered and raped across the middle east? I think you've bought into a narrative.
we didn't start this war? We had a hand in it. We trained the mujhadeen.
If you really wanted to solve the problem, you'd end the cycle of violence and poverty that creates the foot soldiers they depend on. Give a young village boy something to do with his life and he won't be so eager to throw it away.
We could have spent a tenth what we have on schools, mosques, community centers, education, and infrastructure, and we would have made some progress. As it is, we've spent trillions and accomplished NOTHING.
But you keep preaching to just wipe them out. That's works so well so far. Let's keep doing that....
Karma? Logical Fallacy, Black or White. You sir, are acting like a troll of the highest order. You're also resorting to Ad Hominem attacks left and right, against everyone who's disagreeing with you. Then you claim to win. It's.... sad. Please Stop. Yes. Stop the Hyperbole.
Karmashock? Do you realize how often you go to Logical Fallacy: Black or White? It's bad logical thinking. You should look those up... https://yourlogicalfallacyis.c...
Nope, you're wrong.:D And you're coming across as kind of a dick... tone it down. When you start resorting to Ad Hominem attacks, you kind of show that you can't attack the arguement so you've resorted to attacking the person.
I know what we can do. Perhaps we can call them Common Carriers, and force the big ISPs to rent lines to smaller ISPs. It worked incredibly well in the old days... More regulation on ISPs, we get more competition, and we KNOW IT WORKS.
Oh yeah, that's what we've been saying all along. Take your Less Governemnt ideology to somolia where it belongs.
I do. The postal service is awesome. They're so awesome that we all take them for granted. That's how GOOD they are. They're fast, cheap, ubiquitous, and they get the job done. Better? They mosty fund themselves. The postal service is AMAZING, and they do a damn good job.
Better, I'd be happy with neighborhoods being able to get fat fiber, and spreading from there. Cooperatives ran by neighborhoods would be fine with me.
Don't put down the Postal Service. They've done a great job for a LONG time, in the face of budget cuts, email, and assholes in Congress fucking up their retirement to screw them on purpose so they can destroy them.
yeah! Like in the old days before regulation, when railroads were free and people could vote with their dollar! Oh wait, that turned out REALLY BADLY.
You sir, are repeated a mantra, an idealogy, which sounds good on paper and absolutely sucks when it hits the real world. The Invisible Hand of the Free Market is invisible, because it is a fairy tale. I repeat myself: Great Idea, Doesn't Exist In The Real World. The ISPs are GIGANTIC. The Free Market is dead. Taking away regulation would let them get WORSE. It would be a nightmare, on par with the railroad barons of old.
Funnily enough, in other civilized countries that actually regulate their ISPs and cell phone companies, they have a plentitude of choice, service is good, and people are really happy with the competition. You should go overseas, where you can just pop down to the store, buy a SIM card, pop it in your phone, and go forth with cheap cell service. Or you actually have more than one ISP to choose from and the speeds are decent.
Seriously, look where we are ranked in the world in speeds. Fucking Latvia and Lithuania are kicking our asses. Northern Europe is amazing... Why? Because they FUCKING REGULATE. So sick of hearing this deregulation free market Econ101 simplistic no context or real understanding bullshit.
Yup. That finger in our ass is the invisible hand of the Free Market.:D
Whenever someone tells me that the Free Market is better at regulating companies that government, I ask them to show me ONE example, since its so simple and easy. Just one. No, the gay hating wedding cake place doesn't count. Show me an example where a LARGE company EVER was punished by consumers for being assholes.
I still remember watching people roll into the ARCO (Part of B.P., it's right on the sign) gas station near my house right after the B.P. oil rig spill in the Gulf. There was a Shell right across the street. People just didn't care. It was 5cents cheaper a gallon. That's less than a buck savings on a regular gas tank, and the ignorant !@#$ers didn't even think about it. It still bothers me to this day.
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Your comments mean nothing without data backing them up. Actually, MOST of these comments mean nothing. They are factless assertions. Lets see some numbers. I think you'll be surprised how much money Wall Street splashes around, and how evenly it gets splashed.... Big Pharma gives out PLENTY to everyone. I don't think the media actually donates that much. I think you meant Hollywood. Anyway. Data or it didn't happen.
I can tell you are partisan, because you made NO attempt to name any names that donated to the republican party. I'm not saying the Ds are innocent. I'm only saying that your comment is clearly biased. Do you think we can't find big donors for the Rs? Which do you think pulls in more money from special interests? I'm sure the data is there to find, and we can look at it in an unbiased manner instead of just spouting your own opinion as if it's fact.
Lets go to OpenSecrets: http://www.opensecrets.org/ove... Now, I'm not sure this list includes dark money, or money funneled through PACs, which don't have to disclose their donors...
Now, if you're sick of this, why not do something about it? Join Wolf-PAC.com or look up the MayDay PAC. Help out. Volunteer.
Congress has a 10% approval rating. Yet 100% of the folks up for reelection won. We have less than 50% voter turnout. If those lazy slobs all voted independant, we'd have a completely different country. The country's problems are clearly OUR FAULT.
Everyone talks a big game about revolution, but we can't get 50% of the country to put in a few hours effort every few years to clean out congress. It's pretty fuck'in sad really. Apathy sucks.
Also, people that don't vote shouldn't have any right to complain, IMO.
You know nothing.
Most people drive less than 15 miles a day, to and from work. That won't touch a fully charged electric. It can recharge at night, or while it's sitting at work.
I'd love to have an all electric. No more oil changes. No more stupid consumables. It'll be almost maintenance free.... Soooooo many less moving parts. Lube it up once in a while, update the firmware, and that's that.
I'm not pretending solar is as cheap as coal. I'm saying it is, 'cause I read the news. I also work in semiconductor manufacturing, and there are some nasty chemicals.... but producing solar panels really doesn't produce any significant carbon. And no, if I want solar and wind power, which work great, have no radioactive waste, can be put on rooftops, don't suffer from NIMBYism, etc etc etc, I am not a bad guy for wanting to bring on "climate change".
You're wrong on every single point except that lithium is not cheap. You're probably wrong on the cost of the care though... Soooo many less moving parts. No Engine. The battery IS pricey. It'll come down.... And the charge times are not long.
Are you a shill, or just really really uninformed? Ah, my bad, logical fallacy: black or white. Sorry......
Actually, most of the price drop is probably due to chinese manufacturers, which get huge government subsidies from their government. They do that on purpose, to corner the market and grow their own home industry. That do that on quite a few things. And it works out well for them. Subsidies! Yeah! Anyway....
And lets face it, nuke plants suffer from massive NIMBYism. Then there's the waste. And the fear. Lots of fear.
You know, you could discuss his post instead of resorting to Ad Hominem attacks. There's plenty of material there to discuss/argue.
30 billion for 30 years is 1 billion a year. divide by 300 million americans... $3. Total. a year. Ok, I get that the site didn't get built. It might have. Not everything succeeds. There were probably a lot of studies, some decent research, work was done. it's $3 a year to pay for nuclear waste disposal. Stop whining.
Yes, I know the population changed and my math isn't perfect. It's napkin math. You still made it out to be a huge theft. It's $3. You're an anonymous whiner.
I did use an outhouse. I kind of still do. composting toilet... When I was growing up we had a gravity fed "well". It was a hole in the ground and a pipe running downhill to the house. We used to get tadpoles in our bath water. :D I miss those days sometimes. Nostalgia is a bitch, that log cabin was DRAFTY. Dad was a shit carpenter. :D
Thank FSM I got a good public education that enabled me to go to college (thank you government for helping me out there too) so I could get a great job and pay back far more in taxes than I ever took for all that help with lunches and tuition. Now I'm educated and enabled. If I EVER have to do that again, I can look up slow sand water filters on the internet and filter my water. I'm a much better carpenter, but I have the internet to help me out. I also have home depot, public roads, building codes, etc etc etc.
To hijack it BACK to fural internet access, my childhood would have been a lot cooler if we'd had rural internet access. I could have built slow sand filters. I could have read up on waste disposal and perhaps our outhouse wouldn't have leaked into that stream. I could have looked up plant propogation and told dad that crazy scheme to have an apple orchard wouldn't have worked.... Or I could have helped him figure out how to make it work. We would have had access to animal husbandry articles. We would have had access to a whole wealth of knowledge and best known practices designed for the third world and perfectly usable to a poor as shit family living in poor rural Washington in a home built log cabin. Our lives would have been massively better with access to more knowledge.
And there are a bunch of jerks here arguing against it on the basis that taxation is theft, while THEY got to enjoy the fruits of modern society.
I need the post office, but I'm a small businessman who needs to ship things. I'm a job and wealth creator instead of a plebian like you. I quite like socialism for basic infrastructure. It enables me. You just take for granted all that you have due to "socialism".
I don't want to live in a world where the employees i'm trying to hire can't read or write because they didn't get a public education. I don't want to live in a world where I don't have a postal service to get my supplies in and my goods out. I don't want to live in a society where I have to pay road tolls every mile because there are only privater roads. I don't want to do business in a society that has completely different laws in every fucking hamlet I try to do business in.
I'm really starting to hate you small government anti socialist morons. You have NO IDEA what you're talking about. The world you describe is imaginary. It's never going to happen and you're dragging us all down into stupidity arguing about it. It's not going to happen, and I don't WANT it to happen. You don't either, but you're basically all ingrates arguing against basic services that you take for granted.
Go live in a village in Afghanistan. No taxes, but some warlord will come by once a month to take some of your produce.You'll live in a hut cobbled together from sticks and mud, because no decent business selling modern construction equipment or supplies can possibly operate in that environment. Oh, and no electricity either... See what no government, no taxes, no infrastructure, and REAL THEFT are like.
Argh....
Then go to some country where there are no taxes.
Assuming you can find this mythical make believe country, it would be a shithole with no public infrastructure.
you take for granted what your taxes buy you. ingrate.
I take offense at that "sensible choices" crack. It's a really !@#$ing annoying myth that poor people are poor due to their own choices. I know a lot of poor people that work WAY harder than you ever will. I grew up dirt poor. I got help from the government with food, education, etc. I got lucky, and made it, and I've payed back what I took in help, and then some...
You're basically just putting other people down, and doing so against people you don't like. It's a sterotype, and a myth, and your attitude says more about your lack of empathy than it does about those non existant people that "didn't make sensible choices and don't want to deal with the consequences".
I'm old enough to see that a VAST majority of people make pretty shitty decisions all the time, and that pretty much everyone has no idea how to live their lives. Everyone's making it up as they go along. Naturally, all of YOUR decisions are excellent ones, I'm sure. You've never had help from anyone in your whole life when things didn't work out.
It's always "those people" over there that are ruining everything.
Uh... Solar is at price parity with coal these days, last I saw. And the future points to more expensive non renewable energy. Uhm. Cars in general, gas or electric, need iron and aluminum. Anyway. Ten times energy costs for wind over fossil fuels or nuclear? No. Um. ugh. Every paragraph you wrote is full of "Uhm No".
The names changed through history, and you know that. The "southern democrats" that you are referencing were folding into the Republican party a long time ago, and you know it. You're just doublespeaking.
/checks his progressive membership card.
I think you need to stop listening to YOUR side tell you what I'm for, and listen to ME tell you what I'm for.
I am not opposed to free markets. I am opposed to unregulated markets. Everyone needs to play fair. I support freedom of religion, despite being an Atheist. You can believe whatever stupid thing you want as long as you don't push it on me. Keep it in YOUR head, and in your house. Keep it out of mine. I own a gun. Yes, I support Unions, because the alternative is to tell people they can't form associations? No.... I don't support slavery. That's absurd. Actually, your whole post is absurd.... Never mind...
Peak Oil has been reached. That's WHY we're fracking, and why we're doing all that deep offshore drilling. Basically, all the easy to get stuff is gone man... it's all downhill from here.
Uhm. That sounds pretty good to me. :D Lots of nature, blameless lives, lots of frugality and recyling, good music, good drugs, plentiful weed, and loose women. Why are conservatives fighting us again? :D Heheheheheh
His scenario happens all the time. It's not rare at all. And it's a small village! You hang out with who you hang out with. If they ARE militants, they have guns and men. Are you going to stand up to them? Hell no.
You need to read more. Vice has some excellent videos from the ground over there. Check 'em out on Youtube.
regligion? infidels? warlord prophet? Who's the warlord prophet? slaughtered and raped across the middle east? I think you've bought into a narrative.
we didn't start this war? We had a hand in it. We trained the mujhadeen.
If you really wanted to solve the problem, you'd end the cycle of violence and poverty that creates the foot soldiers they depend on. Give a young village boy something to do with his life and he won't be so eager to throw it away.
We could have spent a tenth what we have on schools, mosques, community centers, education, and infrastructure, and we would have made some progress. As it is, we've spent trillions and accomplished NOTHING.
But you keep preaching to just wipe them out. That's works so well so far. Let's keep doing that....
Karma? Logical Fallacy, Black or White. You sir, are acting like a troll of the highest order. You're also resorting to Ad Hominem attacks left and right, against everyone who's disagreeing with you. Then you claim to win. It's.... sad. Please Stop. Yes. Stop the Hyperbole.
Karmashock? Do you realize how often you go to Logical Fallacy: Black or White? It's bad logical thinking. You should look those up... https://yourlogicalfallacyis.c...
Nope, you're wrong. :D And you're coming across as kind of a dick... tone it down. When you start resorting to Ad Hominem attacks, you kind of show that you can't attack the arguement so you've resorted to attacking the person.
Don't insult.
I know what we can do. Perhaps we can call them Common Carriers, and force the big ISPs to rent lines to smaller ISPs. It worked incredibly well in the old days... More regulation on ISPs, we get more competition, and we KNOW IT WORKS.
Oh yeah, that's what we've been saying all along. Take your Less Governemnt ideology to somolia where it belongs.
I do. The postal service is awesome. They're so awesome that we all take them for granted. That's how GOOD they are. They're fast, cheap, ubiquitous, and they get the job done. Better? They mosty fund themselves. The postal service is AMAZING, and they do a damn good job.
Better, I'd be happy with neighborhoods being able to get fat fiber, and spreading from there. Cooperatives ran by neighborhoods would be fine with me.
Don't put down the Postal Service. They've done a great job for a LONG time, in the face of budget cuts, email, and assholes in Congress fucking up their retirement to screw them on purpose so they can destroy them.
yeah! Like in the old days before regulation, when railroads were free and people could vote with their dollar! Oh wait, that turned out REALLY BADLY.
You sir, are repeated a mantra, an idealogy, which sounds good on paper and absolutely sucks when it hits the real world. The Invisible Hand of the Free Market is invisible, because it is a fairy tale. I repeat myself: Great Idea, Doesn't Exist In The Real World. The ISPs are GIGANTIC. The Free Market is dead. Taking away regulation would let them get WORSE. It would be a nightmare, on par with the railroad barons of old.
Funnily enough, in other civilized countries that actually regulate their ISPs and cell phone companies, they have a plentitude of choice, service is good, and people are really happy with the competition. You should go overseas, where you can just pop down to the store, buy a SIM card, pop it in your phone, and go forth with cheap cell service. Or you actually have more than one ISP to choose from and the speeds are decent.
Seriously, look where we are ranked in the world in speeds. Fucking Latvia and Lithuania are kicking our asses. Northern Europe is amazing... Why? Because they FUCKING REGULATE. So sick of hearing this deregulation free market Econ101 simplistic no context or real understanding bullshit.
Link, so you can look for yourself: http://www.netindex.com/
Yup. That finger in our ass is the invisible hand of the Free Market. :D
Whenever someone tells me that the Free Market is better at regulating companies that government, I ask them to show me ONE example, since its so simple and easy. Just one. No, the gay hating wedding cake place doesn't count. Show me an example where a LARGE company EVER was punished by consumers for being assholes.
I still remember watching people roll into the ARCO (Part of B.P., it's right on the sign) gas station near my house right after the B.P. oil rig spill in the Gulf. There was a Shell right across the street. People just didn't care. It was 5cents cheaper a gallon. That's less than a buck savings on a regular gas tank, and the ignorant !@#$ers didn't even think about it. It still bothers me to this day.