About the cost of moving oil, well if you import your oil from Saudi, then it is cheaper to import rubbish from Italy. If oil comes from Norway via pipes probably not, but oil i definetely more expansive than garbage
Not necessarily. It would depend on the differences in energy density between oil and the trash. Granted, its a longer distance, but if the oil is the equivalent of 10 trash piles per costs to transport, the Saudi solution could still be cheaper.
But, I suspect this solves some sort of problem they had so costs like that aren't a concern.
Columbus Ohio had a trash burning power plant but it got shut down in the mid 1980's because of the costs of environmental regulations. I wonder if anything like this could be possible in the US nowadays with the improved emissions processes?
There is a lot that is thought to be unknown about the NSA. The running joke for the longest of time was that NSA stood for No Such Agency. It wasn't until relatively recently (1990s) the government commonly acknowledged it existed as a real agency. It was created by a memo to the director of the CIA, so for a while, it might not have legitimately existed as a government agency.
Part of their tasks besides cypher makers/breakers, is signals intelligence including covert operations in order to secure points of listening for foreign and terrorist entities (ivory bell for instance). They have been dispatched as parts of several different organizations at the same time while operating on their own independent organization possibly leading to confusion to what they actually do. This combined with the the agency largely being hidden/not widely known about is probably why there is so much mystery and conspiracy surrounding it (there is a lot of conspiracy). A lot of that has been debunked and a lot has been ignored and a lot is pure fiction created for artistic references in movies and books.
I was hoping people would get the No Such Agency reference as it is now a widely known secrete agency.
Sure..but this wasn't where someone was blocked though, he was detained for questioning, missed his flight and a meeting/fundraiser. He was allowed to enter the US and did board the next flight into the US.
It is not like he was banned from entering or anything. Of course countries have banned people for speech though. The UK did it to Michael Savage because he's an ass and said things to prove it.
Why would you think that? Rush Limbaugh swears by Apple/MAC products and spends a great deal of time promoting them whenever something new is being released. There are certainly paid versions of Linux and companies offering paid support for them. If by socialist you mean free market, you might be right, but i think you have came to the wrong conclusion on the political aspects of it.
As others pointed out. It's not restricted to just US citizens. It's for everyone who visits the site within the time frame including existing customers. If you already have a contract for support with them (purchased a produce less then a year ago or purchased support) they will add 12 months to the commitment per their faq/details page.
Yeah..I don't care who started the war. I'm saying the US would probably not discriminate in its targeting if that happened and couldn't go about it trying to preserve the hearts of the people and half assing it because Pakistan has nukes..
It's one thing for Pakistan to have UAVs targeting terrorists and Taliban soldiers (And it is regretful that innocent civilians are getting caught in the crossfire) taking refuge in their country that they cannot or are not willing to control. It's another to have the US targeting Pakistan's military capabilities. They are after all, still nervous about a border and disputed lands India laid claims to. There are also a lot of other issues that can arise from a full fledged war with Pakistan. Pakistan has been trying to get free trade deals with the US and Europe which would likely fall south of the probability line. Obama already cut off military aid, but Pakistan still gets economic aid to some degree from the US too.
It simply wouldn't be in Pakistan's interests on a number of fronts unless another country stepped in. Russia or China might, but that might start another cold war so it's not in the best interest of the US or the rest of the world either.
1) Westboro is following the religion as laid out in the bible, so if other christians aren't following suit then they are not really christians.
No they are not. Westboro is a group of lawyers trying to game the system by being as offensive as possible under the guise of religious freedom in order to provoke a response and sue over it. It is how they make their living.
2) Just put religion where it belongs, out of politics, law, schools etc and keep in the heads of the ones that want to continue with their delusion
Religion belongs to the people who worship it. They can be in schools, politics, law, ect all they want. The government just can't force it on anyone.
3) No-one is denying them a right to worship, just a right to keep them out of politics, law, schools etc and ruining everyone else's life with their anti-evolutionism, anti other religions (i.e. they others aren't real) and worshiping a book that promotes genocide, homophobia, misogyny, stoning people to death, not allowing you to eat shellfish, pork etc (except most christians ignore this rule from god)
You really do not know what you are talking about do you. You have no understanding of the bible or Christianity. There are no laws or restrictions on feed, no orders on stoning people, no promotion of genocide in the bible for Christians. All that was in different covenants with the jews- not Christians.
Black is a state of light reflectivity Silence is a state of sound Atheism is a state of religious belief.
I can make ridiculous arguments too. Atheism is your non belief in a religion. When that non belief is pushed without proof (there is just as much a lacking of proof a god doesn't exist as there is that one does) as fact, when people insist it overrides anyone else beliefs, it is no different then any religion. Evangelical Atheist have a religion for all practical purposes.
If I remember right, you can find tubes with printed solid state circuits inside to replace old tubed too. I ended up getting one for an old guitar amp (60's era) a few years ago. You could hear a slight difference as lower volume levels but if cranked for an audience, it was almost identical in sound quality.
lol.. no one but someone from the district office could "fix them" and you relegate them as "useless shit".
I think the problem is more to the effect of you not knowing what you had and an attitude by someone who didn't want to deal with it. Schools can put their bulk license of any windows version on the computers and send them home as loaners to the less fortunate students and forget to ask for them back. Would do a lot more for "education" then tossing donations into the trash.
There is no technical difference between the spirituality of religion and that of any other philosophical nature as far as guidance in concerned.
Your disdain in religion is your problem, not everyone else'. Give it up. You are free to believe what you want, but if you are demanding that the poor, uneducated, sick, desperate and stupid believe the same as you or not believe in any religion, you are no different then the religious nutters you decry.
Complete nonsense. Coerciveness requires a belief of consequences. If you do not believe there will be consequences, there can be no coercion.
Now maybe coercive is not the word you were looking for. Perhaps idiot, foolish, ignorant, or something else is what you were looking for, but I can only go with what you put in front of me. In order for there to be coercion, there has to be something that is the force. In order for God to be that force, you have to believe in him.
The only way it would be coercive is if you think God is real and the message being taught is that of the God. -unless as the op stated, if some one took it upon themselves to act on it's behalf.
So do you believe there is a God and heaven and hell, or is that guy over there acting on his own?
Some are. Especially when it is due to reckless and intentionally harmful behavior. A drug overdose that kills an unborn child in some states will result in a manslaughter charge. Killing a woman and her unborn child in most states results in two murder charges. In a couple states, if you assault a pregnant woman and cause a miscarriage, you can be charged with manslaughter.
Riductio ad absurdum only if you're non conscius realitatem
Actually, health insurance has went up according to several sources. As for jobs, we are gaining them now. It's just not on par with normal population growth yet. And Bush didn't tank the economy- there was several factors even policies initiated by democrats that caused the economy to tank.
But hey, I like the way you even managed to call him a racist for simply not liking Obama's policies. This is even more exciting since you labeled him as an ill informed idiot as your premise for his beliefs, then turn around and blame it on prejudices. You seemed to cover just about everything as ignorantly or even more so then you think he did. You said, "look at what's really happening" But I'm not sure you will like it if you did the same.
The problem or reason Sandy is being overblown is not because it is a hurricane, but because it is going to but up against the jet stream shortly after making land fall. We do not exactly know what will happen but for instance, a few years back, the remnants of a hurricane met with a cold front in Ohio and produced sustained 60-70 MPH winds with gusts up to 110 MPH for 4 orr 5 days. It cause power outages in Ohio, Kentucky, Pennsylvania. New york and West Virgina that took weeks to repair.
We were lucky then because it was still summer and the outside temps were still in the 70's or above. It's a different situation now. Outside temps regularly fall to the low 40's this time of year in these places. This is especially going to be problematic because of the Arctic air being thrust down with the jet stream. Right now, I've got 30-50 MPH winds that are supposed to go over 65 MPH and it's only 39 degrees F out (4 pm). If I lose power there is a real chance of thousands of people suffering hypothermia or worse. I'm safe from it because I have a wood burner and plenty of wood.
But the biggest threat or issue is the unknown. What is going to happen when the Jet Stream hits it. Is it going to dissipate or will it gain strength and stall for 2 weeks or more on land. We don't know because we haven't observed this in the past (I'm sure it has happened, just not when we were watching). We simply do not know what will happen but from lesser events, we know it gets worse. The storm will still be picking some moisture up from the Atlantic but the colder Arctic air will cause it to release so instead of 5-10 inches of rain an hour, will it become 15-20, or will the homes not built for 80+ MPH hurricane strength winds be able to withstand high winds for a sustained amount of time?
Yeah, I would have a right to complain. I would have the right to feel any emotion it would trigger too. And you would have the right to not agree with me, to see my complaints as petty and whatever else that trips your boat. The problem here is not getting something for free or not, it's not knowing about it. It would leave you with the taste of being swindled if you found out after the fact.
However, if I knew before hand, it wouldn't be a problem. I could knowingly make that decision to pay to get the book in a certain form or to pay to support the author or whatever. It would be no different then the anger I felt when I found I could buy the same books for school at less then 1/3 of the costs as in the campus book store from outside entities. Even though I was buying them with credit to be repaid with grant money and student loans, it didn't prevent me from being angry and complaining. Like I said, it's about knowing about it before hand.
We don't have to over look the free speech zones. Your right to speech doesn't invalidate my rights in any ways. Speech zones was started by the democrats as a compromise to specifically to deal with that type of issues. You have a right to free speech, not a stage.
As for the border crossing. Yes, I've heard horror stories about them. I've been put aside for similar stuff. It didn't bother me one bit. There was one time when someone was being combative and complained they were a citizen and not a terrorist and he caused the entire process to be held up by about 40 minutes while they made sure of his claims. I used to go to Canada and get Cuban Cigars and bring them back in for personal use. You can't do that any more.
He wasn't arrested. He wasn't detained as part of a procedure of the criminal justice system nor the investigation or prevention of a crime, he was detained as part of a clearance issue to determine eligibility to enter the country.
His detainment is normal and ordinary for lots of foreign nationals attempting to enter the US. In some cases, they are completely denied entry and told to go elsewhere.
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Not necessarily. It would depend on the differences in energy density between oil and the trash. Granted, its a longer distance, but if the oil is the equivalent of 10 trash piles per costs to transport, the Saudi solution could still be cheaper.
But, I suspect this solves some sort of problem they had so costs like that aren't a concern.
We used to do that in the US.
Columbus Ohio had a trash burning power plant but it got shut down in the mid 1980's because of the costs of environmental regulations. I wonder if anything like this could be possible in the US nowadays with the improved emissions processes?
There is a lot that is thought to be unknown about the NSA. The running joke for the longest of time was that NSA stood for No Such Agency. It wasn't until relatively recently (1990s) the government commonly acknowledged it existed as a real agency. It was created by a memo to the director of the CIA, so for a while, it might not have legitimately existed as a government agency.
Part of their tasks besides cypher makers/breakers, is signals intelligence including covert operations in order to secure points of listening for foreign and terrorist entities (ivory bell for instance). They have been dispatched as parts of several different organizations at the same time while operating on their own independent organization possibly leading to confusion to what they actually do. This combined with the the agency largely being hidden/not widely known about is probably why there is so much mystery and conspiracy surrounding it (there is a lot of conspiracy). A lot of that has been debunked and a lot has been ignored and a lot is pure fiction created for artistic references in movies and books.
I was hoping people would get the No Such Agency reference as it is now a widely known secrete agency.
Sure..but this wasn't where someone was blocked though, he was detained for questioning, missed his flight and a meeting/fundraiser. He was allowed to enter the US and did board the next flight into the US.
It is not like he was banned from entering or anything. Of course countries have banned people for speech though. The UK did it to Michael Savage because he's an ass and said things to prove it.
Why would you think that? Rush Limbaugh swears by Apple/MAC products and spends a great deal of time promoting them whenever something new is being released. There are certainly paid versions of Linux and companies offering paid support for them. If by socialist you mean free market, you might be right, but i think you have came to the wrong conclusion on the political aspects of it.
It could make you "someone who didn't visit".
As others pointed out. It's not restricted to just US citizens. It's for everyone who visits the site within the time frame including existing customers. If you already have a contract for support with them (purchased a produce less then a year ago or purchased support) they will add 12 months to the commitment per their faq/details page.
Yeah..I don't care who started the war. I'm saying the US would probably not discriminate in its targeting if that happened and couldn't go about it trying to preserve the hearts of the people and half assing it because Pakistan has nukes..
It's one thing for Pakistan to have UAVs targeting terrorists and Taliban soldiers (And it is regretful that innocent civilians are getting caught in the crossfire) taking refuge in their country that they cannot or are not willing to control. It's another to have the US targeting Pakistan's military capabilities. They are after all, still nervous about a border and disputed lands India laid claims to. There are also a lot of other issues that can arise from a full fledged war with Pakistan. Pakistan has been trying to get free trade deals with the US and Europe which would likely fall south of the probability line. Obama already cut off military aid, but Pakistan still gets economic aid to some degree from the US too.
It simply wouldn't be in Pakistan's interests on a number of fronts unless another country stepped in. Russia or China might, but that might start another cold war so it's not in the best interest of the US or the rest of the world either.
No they are not. Westboro is a group of lawyers trying to game the system by being as offensive as possible under the guise of religious freedom in order to provoke a response and sue over it. It is how they make their living.
Religion belongs to the people who worship it. They can be in schools, politics, law, ect all they want. The government just can't force it on anyone.
You really do not know what you are talking about do you. You have no understanding of the bible or Christianity. There are no laws or restrictions on feed, no orders on stoning people, no promotion of genocide in the bible for Christians. All that was in different covenants with the jews- not Christians.
Black is a state of light reflectivity
Silence is a state of sound
Atheism is a state of religious belief.
I can make ridiculous arguments too. Atheism is your non belief in a religion. When that non belief is pushed without proof (there is just as much a lacking of proof a god doesn't exist as there is that one does) as fact, when people insist it overrides anyone else beliefs, it is no different then any religion. Evangelical Atheist have a religion for all practical purposes.
Both.
Any sovereign country has and right and should continue to have that right to secure its borders and regulate who does or does not enter the country.
Your or anyone's right of free speech does not trump that. They are both rights and either have to clash or get along.
If I remember right, you can find tubes with printed solid state circuits inside to replace old tubed too. I ended up getting one for an old guitar amp (60's era) a few years ago. You could hear a slight difference as lower volume levels but if cranked for an audience, it was almost identical in sound quality.
lol.. no one but someone from the district office could "fix them" and you relegate them as "useless shit".
I think the problem is more to the effect of you not knowing what you had and an attitude by someone who didn't want to deal with it. Schools can put their bulk license of any windows version on the computers and send them home as loaners to the less fortunate students and forget to ask for them back. Would do a lot more for "education" then tossing donations into the trash.
Think printers. Some that are still serviceable use them and they are hard to find.
hmm... all this time I thought the NSA was the secret police in this nation.
There is no technical difference between the spirituality of religion and that of any other philosophical nature as far as guidance in concerned.
Your disdain in religion is your problem, not everyone else'. Give it up. You are free to believe what you want, but if you are demanding that the poor, uneducated, sick, desperate and stupid believe the same as you or not believe in any religion, you are no different then the religious nutters you decry.
Complete nonsense. Coerciveness requires a belief of consequences. If you do not believe there will be consequences, there can be no coercion.
Now maybe coercive is not the word you were looking for. Perhaps idiot, foolish, ignorant, or something else is what you were looking for, but I can only go with what you put in front of me. In order for there to be coercion, there has to be something that is the force. In order for God to be that force, you have to believe in him.
I guess you have a point if you believe there is a God who can make those claims.
The only way it would be coercive is if you think God is real and the message being taught is that of the God. -unless as the op stated, if some one took it upon themselves to act on it's behalf.
So do you believe there is a God and heaven and hell, or is that guy over there acting on his own?
Some are. Especially when it is due to reckless and intentionally harmful behavior. A drug overdose that kills an unborn child in some states will result in a manslaughter charge. Killing a woman and her unborn child in most states results in two murder charges. In a couple states, if you assault a pregnant woman and cause a miscarriage, you can be charged with manslaughter.
Riductio ad absurdum only if you're non conscius realitatem
Actually, health insurance has went up according to several sources. As for jobs, we are gaining them now. It's just not on par with normal population growth yet. And Bush didn't tank the economy- there was several factors even policies initiated by democrats that caused the economy to tank.
But hey, I like the way you even managed to call him a racist for simply not liking Obama's policies. This is even more exciting since you labeled him as an ill informed idiot as your premise for his beliefs, then turn around and blame it on prejudices. You seemed to cover just about everything as ignorantly or even more so then you think he did. You said, "look at what's really happening" But I'm not sure you will like it if you did the same.
The problem or reason Sandy is being overblown is not because it is a hurricane, but because it is going to but up against the jet stream shortly after making land fall. We do not exactly know what will happen but for instance, a few years back, the remnants of a hurricane met with a cold front in Ohio and produced sustained 60-70 MPH winds with gusts up to 110 MPH for 4 orr 5 days. It cause power outages in Ohio, Kentucky, Pennsylvania. New york and West Virgina that took weeks to repair.
We were lucky then because it was still summer and the outside temps were still in the 70's or above. It's a different situation now. Outside temps regularly fall to the low 40's this time of year in these places. This is especially going to be problematic because of the Arctic air being thrust down with the jet stream. Right now, I've got 30-50 MPH winds that are supposed to go over 65 MPH and it's only 39 degrees F out (4 pm). If I lose power there is a real chance of thousands of people suffering hypothermia or worse. I'm safe from it because I have a wood burner and plenty of wood.
But the biggest threat or issue is the unknown. What is going to happen when the Jet Stream hits it. Is it going to dissipate or will it gain strength and stall for 2 weeks or more on land. We don't know because we haven't observed this in the past (I'm sure it has happened, just not when we were watching). We simply do not know what will happen but from lesser events, we know it gets worse. The storm will still be picking some moisture up from the Atlantic but the colder Arctic air will cause it to release so instead of 5-10 inches of rain an hour, will it become 15-20, or will the homes not built for 80+ MPH hurricane strength winds be able to withstand high winds for a sustained amount of time?
I see what you did there. You applied practical reality to the situation and came to a logical conclusion based on prior experience.
Smart man..
Yeah, I would have a right to complain. I would have the right to feel any emotion it would trigger too. And you would have the right to not agree with me, to see my complaints as petty and whatever else that trips your boat. The problem here is not getting something for free or not, it's not knowing about it. It would leave you with the taste of being swindled if you found out after the fact.
However, if I knew before hand, it wouldn't be a problem. I could knowingly make that decision to pay to get the book in a certain form or to pay to support the author or whatever. It would be no different then the anger I felt when I found I could buy the same books for school at less then 1/3 of the costs as in the campus book store from outside entities. Even though I was buying them with credit to be repaid with grant money and student loans, it didn't prevent me from being angry and complaining. Like I said, it's about knowing about it before hand.
We don't have to over look the free speech zones. Your right to speech doesn't invalidate my rights in any ways. Speech zones was started by the democrats as a compromise to specifically to deal with that type of issues. You have a right to free speech, not a stage.
As for the border crossing. Yes, I've heard horror stories about them. I've been put aside for similar stuff. It didn't bother me one bit. There was one time when someone was being combative and complained they were a citizen and not a terrorist and he caused the entire process to be held up by about 40 minutes while they made sure of his claims. I used to go to Canada and get Cuban Cigars and bring them back in for personal use. You can't do that any more.
He wasn't arrested. He wasn't detained as part of a procedure of the criminal justice system nor the investigation or prevention of a crime, he was detained as part of a clearance issue to determine eligibility to enter the country.
His detainment is normal and ordinary for lots of foreign nationals attempting to enter the US. In some cases, they are completely denied entry and told to go elsewhere.