For someone so angry you sure don't know what the words mean. Let me help you:
Republic = A country not ruled by a dynastic leader Democracy = A country/system where people vote Representative democracy = A country/system where people vote for people to act in their interests
So the US is both a republic and a democracy. Britain, for example, is not a republic, but is also a democracy.
Most of them didn't experience anything like the comfort and safety of Europe... Whole colonies disappearing, rampant disease, wars with the indigenous people, etc. - things encountered far less in Europe. Don't paint such a rosy picture - it shows you either don't know, or are being dishonest. Neither are admirable qualities when trying to convince others of anything.
I know a bunch, and they're not mean at all. In fact, the ones I know are very pleasant, kind, generous people. Environmentalists tend to be able to not distinguish themselves from the environment in which they live, hence them having an interest in it and caring for it. Are you sure the ones you know aren't angry because they have to put up with your nonsense?:)
You understand the difference between a person hearing a conversation, and the same person hearing half of the same conversation, right? It's jarring to have the flow of a conversation interrupted. It also doesn't help that people on phones generally talk louder than people having a quiet, hushed conversation in adjoining seats, which amplifies the jarring effect.
No, it settles into a discussion between people regurgitating previously-debunked Koch brothers claims that there is a hitherto-unseen global conspiracy among scientists (who would get incredibly wealthy if they spoke out about it), armchair climatologists who frequently confuse cause and effect, climate and weather, and people who accept the scientific method.
1. Most people who use the toilet urinate and not defecate, so less water in this instance saves water. Not everyone who goes to defecate drops monster bombs which require two flushes. You have picked an edge case and sneakily tried to present it as anything but. Tut tut.
2. We all have to share electricity. It's finite. In order to share, we have to limit how much each person can draw. We can do that by having an Energy Cop in each person's house, shaking their head and taking notes each time a light is turned on, or we can implement sensible moves to wean people off needlessly wasting most of the energy some devices consume. Incandescent bulbs are, from a light-producing standpoint, woefully inefficient. From a space-heating standpoint, they're much better. I think you can agree that people using heaters for light is not a good use of a finite, shared resource. If people were sensible, this legislation wouldn't be required.
The soft-drinks thing was pretty silly, but again - a shared resource is being depleted by muppets. The resource in this case is healthcare. The better way for dealing with this would be by preemptive healthcare, but there's not much money in that (in fact, for healthcare providers, less), so it's not really an option. You are confusing government with the bad decisions some governments have made.
There's a difference between a person who's gone (and who continues to go) out of their way to demonstrate their responsibility enough to own a device whose only reason for existing is to put holes in usually-living things, and the current state of practical free-for-all under the guise of a poorly-interpreted 200-year-old anachronism. He also didn't say that all gun use was for mass-killings - you did.
Air bags and seatbelts save everyone the hassle of having to pay for people to scrape up parts of skull and teeth from the road, or having to pay for lengthy recuperation in hospital, or suffering the economic shortcomings their absence from the workforce might entail. No man is an island, and when said man is splattered across the highway, it affects many people. This isn't difficult to understand.
Don't like the cops knowing where you are when you call 911? Don't buy a phone with GPS, or don't use your phone to call 911. Most [sane] people don't have a problem with the people you're calling for help to know where you are. In fact, they see that as a very nice thing indeed, especially if you are calling for help and can't talk (due to menace or injury).
A truly civilised society wouldn't need these rules, but as people like you exist (who can't see past the end of their nose, and who analyse every rule by seeing how it affects them, and only them) rules have to be put in place to stop them from seriously screwing everyone over through their sheer selfishness and ignorance of how their actions affect others.
Throwing an apple away isn't going to get you a fine. You are so dramatic it's amazing. No wonder you're so uptight and confused - you haven't a clue what's going on, and your ignorance and fear is screaming that it's all bad as you are so wonderful and important and can't understand it.
Oh well. You get the country you deserve. Have fun!
You could claim that, or you could actually find out the real reason and not post things to slashdot which scream "I have no idea what I'm saying, but I hate Google so much I'll gladly make a fool out of myself just to try!".
There you go again. You really need some help. You do realise that it's not normal behaviour to group ~1.6bn people together, and even less normal to think it's a good idea to shoot them simply because they're near you, right?
You sound dangerously close to a small-minded xenophobe. So close the difference is, at best, imperceptible.
And even more is due to it being purchased and left to slowly decompose, or part of a massive meal which is thrown out when only half-eaten. You can read more here.
If you look at it pragmatically, it's a massive cause of social unrest. It creates "them" and "us", as you so poetically demonstrated, between the haves and the have-nots. This exacerbates crime, and allows the haves to pull away from the have-nots by simple virtue of wealth creating its own wealth. It does not indicate anything about wealth and value, only that one person has wealth and others don't.
So no, it's not "jealousy", even if that would make it convenient to ignore.
And all their pesky science which backs them up... Compare that to those who think it's bunkum, who at best have niggling doubts, scant criticism, and oft-played shrink-wrapped arguments which have been shown to be nonsense for years, but which still get trotted out as if they're the latest and greatest discoveries of mankind, worthy of Einstein himself.
And I find it pathetically depressing that people can drown in smugness when all they've actually done is show everyone how ignorant of science they are. You are one of those people, by the way.
And to put things into perspective even more: That 0.0000004 is responsible for all the plant life on the planet. Trying to make numbers feel insignificant is pathetic. Stick to science - leave emotion out of this.
Define "warm", and compare it to the predictions. Then look at what you've done, feel embarrassed, slap yourself a couple of times for good measure, and resolve yourself to never post such drivel again.
Ugh. The hiatus doesn't exist. Warming has continued, albeit not as much as first thought. So please educate yourself before you keep embarrassing yourself like this.
Or maybe it's the US's InfinityX number of troops in military bases around the world, coupled with the US's InfinityX support of Israel, with a dash of the US's InfinityX military bases engaging in torture and detention without trial...
Yes, the US is powerful, but if it had used that power for the greater good, there would be less nutters out there with problems with the US and its leadership... You can't pretend it's just a case of the big boy on the block getting bullied...
Australia witnessed a massive drop in gun crime, which was the idea. The crime rates did actually decrease, with the decrease in gun crime not being countered by an increase in other forms of violence.
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For someone so angry you sure don't know what the words mean. Let me help you:
Republic = A country not ruled by a dynastic leader
Democracy = A country/system where people vote
Representative democracy = A country/system where people vote for people to act in their interests
So the US is both a republic and a democracy. Britain, for example, is not a republic, but is also a democracy.
All kinds of woosh.
Most of them didn't experience anything like the comfort and safety of Europe... Whole colonies disappearing, rampant disease, wars with the indigenous people, etc. - things encountered far less in Europe. Don't paint such a rosy picture - it shows you either don't know, or are being dishonest. Neither are admirable qualities when trying to convince others of anything.
I know a bunch, and they're not mean at all. In fact, the ones I know are very pleasant, kind, generous people. Environmentalists tend to be able to not distinguish themselves from the environment in which they live, hence them having an interest in it and caring for it. Are you sure the ones you know aren't angry because they have to put up with your nonsense? :)
You understand the difference between a person hearing a conversation, and the same person hearing half of the same conversation, right? It's jarring to have the flow of a conversation interrupted. It also doesn't help that people on phones generally talk louder than people having a quiet, hushed conversation in adjoining seats, which amplifies the jarring effect.
What about for those of us who are ambiwanxtrous?
No, it settles into a discussion between people regurgitating previously-debunked Koch brothers claims that there is a hitherto-unseen global conspiracy among scientists (who would get incredibly wealthy if they spoke out about it), armchair climatologists who frequently confuse cause and effect, climate and weather, and people who accept the scientific method.
I see it now. Let me help:
1. Most people who use the toilet urinate and not defecate, so less water in this instance saves water. Not everyone who goes to defecate drops monster bombs which require two flushes. You have picked an edge case and sneakily tried to present it as anything but. Tut tut.
2. We all have to share electricity. It's finite. In order to share, we have to limit how much each person can draw. We can do that by having an Energy Cop in each person's house, shaking their head and taking notes each time a light is turned on, or we can implement sensible moves to wean people off needlessly wasting most of the energy some devices consume. Incandescent bulbs are, from a light-producing standpoint, woefully inefficient. From a space-heating standpoint, they're much better. I think you can agree that people using heaters for light is not a good use of a finite, shared resource. If people were sensible, this legislation wouldn't be required.
The soft-drinks thing was pretty silly, but again - a shared resource is being depleted by muppets. The resource in this case is healthcare. The better way for dealing with this would be by preemptive healthcare, but there's not much money in that (in fact, for healthcare providers, less), so it's not really an option. You are confusing government with the bad decisions some governments have made.
There's a difference between a person who's gone (and who continues to go) out of their way to demonstrate their responsibility enough to own a device whose only reason for existing is to put holes in usually-living things, and the current state of practical free-for-all under the guise of a poorly-interpreted 200-year-old anachronism. He also didn't say that all gun use was for mass-killings - you did.
Air bags and seatbelts save everyone the hassle of having to pay for people to scrape up parts of skull and teeth from the road, or having to pay for lengthy recuperation in hospital, or suffering the economic shortcomings their absence from the workforce might entail. No man is an island, and when said man is splattered across the highway, it affects many people. This isn't difficult to understand.
Don't like the cops knowing where you are when you call 911? Don't buy a phone with GPS, or don't use your phone to call 911. Most [sane] people don't have a problem with the people you're calling for help to know where you are. In fact, they see that as a very nice thing indeed, especially if you are calling for help and can't talk (due to menace or injury).
A truly civilised society wouldn't need these rules, but as people like you exist (who can't see past the end of their nose, and who analyse every rule by seeing how it affects them, and only them) rules have to be put in place to stop them from seriously screwing everyone over through their sheer selfishness and ignorance of how their actions affect others.
Throwing an apple away isn't going to get you a fine. You are so dramatic it's amazing. No wonder you're so uptight and confused - you haven't a clue what's going on, and your ignorance and fear is screaming that it's all bad as you are so wonderful and important and can't understand it.
Oh well. You get the country you deserve. Have fun!
You could claim that, or you could actually find out the real reason and not post things to slashdot which scream "I have no idea what I'm saying, but I hate Google so much I'll gladly make a fool out of myself just to try!".
There you go again. You really need some help. You do realise that it's not normal behaviour to group ~1.6bn people together, and even less normal to think it's a good idea to shoot them simply because they're near you, right?
You sound dangerously close to a small-minded xenophobe. So close the difference is, at best, imperceptible.
Many people have kept similar-size phones in their pockets without a second thought - no bending, no breaking, no nothing.
And as for the pouch - you have to be kidding. That's not a solution for anything, other than "I don't know how to stand out like a clichéd American office worker".
A .MOV file hosted on a site whose index page was written in Microsoft Word? Wow. It's like a time machine shat on my internet connection.
And even more is due to it being purchased and left to slowly decompose, or part of a massive meal which is thrown out when only half-eaten. You can read more here.
If you look at it pragmatically, it's a massive cause of social unrest. It creates "them" and "us", as you so poetically demonstrated, between the haves and the have-nots. This exacerbates crime, and allows the haves to pull away from the have-nots by simple virtue of wealth creating its own wealth. It does not indicate anything about wealth and value, only that one person has wealth and others don't.
So no, it's not "jealousy", even if that would make it convenient to ignore.
And all their pesky science which backs them up... Compare that to those who think it's bunkum, who at best have niggling doubts, scant criticism, and oft-played shrink-wrapped arguments which have been shown to be nonsense for years, but which still get trotted out as if they're the latest and greatest discoveries of mankind, worthy of Einstein himself.
And I find it pathetically depressing that people can drown in smugness when all they've actually done is show everyone how ignorant of science they are. You are one of those people, by the way.
And to put things into perspective even more: That 0.0000004 is responsible for all the plant life on the planet. Trying to make numbers feel insignificant is pathetic. Stick to science - leave emotion out of this.
Post a paper, not a YouTube video - then maybe people will listen to you.
Define "warm", and compare it to the predictions. Then look at what you've done, feel embarrassed, slap yourself a couple of times for good measure, and resolve yourself to never post such drivel again.
Way to conjure up a guess then beat him over the head with it :)
You know practically nothing about his requirements or the requirements of his boss/company, but still felt fine assuming you did... Weird.
Ugh. The hiatus doesn't exist. Warming has continued, albeit not as much as first thought. So please educate yourself before you keep embarrassing yourself like this.
The ol' Tea Party cleaning-up-after-themselves thing wasn't/isn't always true, so it's not a great idea to ask that question...
You benefit from analytics, even if you don't think you do. Harping on about it being useless just serves to illustrate your ignorance of the subject.
Or maybe it's the US's InfinityX number of troops in military bases around the world, coupled with the US's InfinityX support of Israel, with a dash of the US's InfinityX military bases engaging in torture and detention without trial...
Yes, the US is powerful, but if it had used that power for the greater good, there would be less nutters out there with problems with the US and its leadership... You can't pretend it's just a case of the big boy on the block getting bullied...
Australia witnessed a massive drop in gun crime, which was the idea. The crime rates did actually decrease, with the decrease in gun crime not being countered by an increase in other forms of violence.