I don't find it surprising that you're proving his point out misdirection, by pedantically focusing on an old, partial definition of "liberalism" instead of people who are called liberals today.
I call myself liberal. And by using twisted meanings for words people make it hard to understand each other. You're just as bad as the rest if you use a word incorrectly.
Some plants grow better with higher CO2 levels, like poison ivy. However other plants grow slower. There are winners and losers wherein some plants grow faster and others slower under high CO2 levels. The same is true under higher temperatures.
Oh, BTW, "The jolt of carbon dioxide also boosted the most-toxic forms of poison ivy's rash-raising oil".
So, please, stop trying to insult the intelligence of people on slashdot until AFTER you have educated yourself about how the world works.
So all of the other posts here explaining technologies that convert coal to another, cleaner form of energy are all wrong, and you are right?
Burning coal and emitting CO2, mercury, and other pollutants isn't the only part of coal that is dirty. So is coal mining. Have you ever seen a beautiful mountain top turned into a parking lot? Do you know what heavy metals are released by such mining? All "clean coal", carbon capture and storage, and other technologies do is reduce CO2 emissions.
Please by all means invest in your solar panels that cost $10 a watt. let me know how the goes for you.
First, I don't know where you got your "$10 a watt" but PV modules can be bought today that are under $5 a watt, Next, people who build Off the Grid do that all the tyme. Of course before they build a solar power system, or use any other alternative energy, they first conserve energy by using energy efficient power users. They'll use CFLs, which only use about a quarter of the power incandescent lights do, or LEDs, which use a tenth of the power. The building will be super insulated to dramatically reduce if not eliminate the energy needed to heat and cool the building. Instead of using refrigs and freezers with the compressors on button, they get hot and heat rises, they may use appliances with them on top. They will also be super insulated.
Great- so with CFLs instead of putting carbon in th air we put mercury in the earth
Yes, CFLs contain mercury howewver coal fired power plants emit more mercury. Switching from incandescent lights to CFLs reduces the mercury released more than the bulbs contain. According to the Energystar [pdf] "Coal- fired power generation accounts for roughly 40 percent of the mercury emissions in the U.S." "As shown in the table below, a 13-watt, 8,000-rated-hour-life CFL (60-watt equivalent; a common light bulb type) will save 376 kWh over its lifetime, thus avoiding 4.5 mg of mercury."
mortality. That's why they are afraid of cancer and flying, but not so much of road accidents where you die instantly.
Some are and some aren't. I smoke and I love flying, eventually I'd like to get my pilot's license. And while thousands die in accidents on the road death frequently is not instantaneous.
Natural gas reservoirs have contained the gas for millions of years, so it is fair to say that the technology exists to sequester CO2 on a geologic time scale.
CO2 also burbs as it did in Lake Nyos, Africa killing almost 2000 people. Other burbs have killed more people as well as animals.
Frustratingly, I still do not understand clean coal. To me, its like a clean bomb, vs. a dirty bomb. Its still does damage, maybe not as much, but it is still harmful.
Clean coal is smoke and mirrors. There is no such thing as clean coal. Even if what comes out of the smoke stack is cleaned up coal mining is dirty. Mining itself isn't clean but some of what's mined can be recycled, such as silicon and metals.
If you don't think a teacher can inspire students, you've never had a good teacher, let alone a great one.
But throwing money at teachers doesn't make them suddenly extremely good
You're right but paying teachers based on merit could very well encourage more people who are capable of teaching to teach. A slap on the back shouldn't be the only reward given to good teachers never mind great ones.
America's been behind the rest of the world in education for quite a while. I thought No Child Left Behind was supposed to fix this.
No Child Left Behind was not meant to fix the educational system in the US, it was meant to boost rote memory test scores. It's also a backdoor to privatizing education.
Want your child to have access to actual college preparation? Private school is your only option unless you are lucky enough to live in an affluent area with better than average public education.
Both of my sisters and I grew up in a low income family in a low income area yet all three of us went to college. My older sister's a nurse while my younger sister got her Masters, is a CPA, and runs her own accounting business. While not everybody can do it most people can go to college if they set their minds to it.
There's a simple way to have the best teachers rewarded appropriately - you completely eliminate government schools. The cream will rise to the top in the private-sector schools, as it does now.
I'm in Texas and the religious types here when I was growing up with take after you with "spare the rod spoil the child" in a heartbeat while the liberal dr. spocky types were all "that only teaches the child that violence is the answer".
I grew up in Florida and though there were "spare the rod spoil the child" religious types there were also those for whom physical punishment teaches violence is justified.
Secular types lack a blind faith in an external morality and tend to be a lot wimpier. It seems nice "I never spank my child" and "do what feels good"
That's ironic, most of those I knew who wouldn't spank their children were religious and not secular. Those who were religious were also less likely to hurt their children's feelings, except when it came to religion.
when people coming out of private religious schools tend to have a greater ability to grasp not only science better than their publicly educated counterparts, but most other subjects as well.
(In this case, inner city blacks, though liberals, intellectuals, Jews, women, gays, and many other groups serve that purpose just as well. This particular example is used because it is the only segment of American society that is less educated than the conservative base.)
I don't find it a surprise you're showing a lack of education yourself. A liberal of Classical liberalism is someone who stresses a doctrine of "individual freedom, free markets, and limited government." It extends from the Age of Enlightenment and Age of Reason.
59% of adults polled think humans and dinosaurs lived together at one point in time. This was a WTF type of statistic. I hope they did this poll evenly spread out and not in say the deep south!
Seeing as how there's religious amusement parks showing dinosaurs and humans living together it's not surprising some people do believe they've lived together. There are a lot of young earthers.
What I found annoying is how the article states that only 1% of the people knew how much the Earth's surface is covered with fresh water.
No, it says 47% know, here's the quote: "Only 47% of adults can roughly approximate the percent of the Earth's surface that is covered with water.(*)"
"(*) The approximately correct answer range for this question was defined as anything between 65% and 75%. Only 15% of respondents answered this question with the exactly correct answer of 70%."
When you die should the government take your house, auction it off, and keep the money?
Whether on purpose or unintentionally you are mixing up property rights with what government can grant. Houses are real property which government can not deny. However government has the ability to, though does not have to, grant copyrights.
You don't explain why an author should have control of what they wrote for their entire life. The reason there are copyrights is by giving authors and other artists limited monopolies they will be encouraged to write and create works of art. You encourage people thus by having them create more not by giving them a lifetime monopoly. And yes, I used to be a writer and am still a photographer.
Right. You can't make a statutory, federal case against the infringer without registering the work. But that doesn't mean you have no ability to shut down an infringer without having regisered.
I didn't say that without registration infringers can't be stopped. In fact I said the opposite, "Without registering a copyright however the most you can get is a cease and desist order." Cease and Desist is an order or request to stop.
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I don't find it surprising that you're proving his point out misdirection, by pedantically focusing on an old, partial definition of "liberalism" instead of people who are called liberals today.
I call myself liberal. And by using twisted meanings for words people make it hard to understand each other. You're just as bad as the rest if you use a word incorrectly.
Falcon
When there is more CO2, plants do better.
Some plants grow better with higher CO2 levels, like poison ivy. However other plants grow slower. There are winners and losers wherein some plants grow faster and others slower under high CO2 levels. The same is true under higher temperatures.
Oh, BTW, "The jolt of carbon dioxide also boosted the most-toxic forms of poison ivy's rash-raising oil".
So, please, stop trying to insult the intelligence of people on slashdot until AFTER you have educated yourself about how the world works.
I suggest you do the same.
Falcon
So all of the other posts here explaining technologies that convert coal to another, cleaner form of energy are all wrong, and you are right?
Burning coal and emitting CO2, mercury, and other pollutants isn't the only part of coal that is dirty. So is coal mining. Have you ever seen a beautiful mountain top turned into a parking lot? Do you know what heavy metals are released by such mining? All "clean coal", carbon capture and storage, and other technologies do is reduce CO2 emissions.
Falcon
Please by all means invest in your solar panels that cost $10 a watt. let me know how the goes for you.
First, I don't know where you got your "$10 a watt" but PV modules can be bought today that are under $5 a watt, Next, people who build Off the Grid do that all the tyme. Of course before they build a solar power system, or use any other alternative energy, they first conserve energy by using energy efficient power users. They'll use CFLs, which only use about a quarter of the power incandescent lights do, or LEDs, which use a tenth of the power. The building will be super insulated to dramatically reduce if not eliminate the energy needed to heat and cool the building. Instead of using refrigs and freezers with the compressors on button, they get hot and heat rises, they may use appliances with them on top. They will also be super insulated.
Falcon
Great- so with CFLs instead of putting carbon in th air we put mercury in the earth
Yes, CFLs contain mercury howewver coal fired power plants emit more mercury. Switching from incandescent lights to CFLs reduces the mercury released more than the bulbs contain. According to the Energystar [pdf] "Coal- fired power generation accounts for roughly 40 percent of the mercury emissions in the U.S." "As shown in the table below, a 13-watt, 8,000-rated-hour-life CFL (60-watt equivalent; a common light bulb type) will save 376 kWh over its lifetime, thus avoiding 4.5 mg of mercury."
Falcon
why are you not down at your state capitol telling those hippies that are protesting the proposed nuclear plant to shut the hell up?!!?
It's not just hippies that oppose nuclear power. So do libertarians and free market supporters.
Falcon
mortality. That's why they are afraid of cancer and flying, but not so much of road accidents where you die instantly.
Some are and some aren't. I smoke and I love flying, eventually I'd like to get my pilot's license. And while thousands die in accidents on the road death frequently is not instantaneous.
Falcon
Natural gas reservoirs have contained the gas for millions of years, so it is fair to say that the technology exists to sequester CO2 on a geologic time scale.
CO2 also burbs as it did in Lake Nyos, Africa killing almost 2000 people. Other burbs have killed more people as well as animals.
Falcon
(inefficient)
Actually rail, trains, are one of the most fuel efficient modes of transportation.
Falcon
Frustratingly, I still do not understand clean coal. To me, its like a clean bomb, vs. a dirty bomb. Its still does damage, maybe not as much, but it is still harmful.
Clean coal is smoke and mirrors. There is no such thing as clean coal. Even if what comes out of the smoke stack is cleaned up coal mining is dirty. Mining itself isn't clean but some of what's mined can be recycled, such as silicon and metals.
Falcon
IMO, "too big to fail" should translate into "too big to be allowed to exist in the first place".
Agreed!!!
Companies that are too big to fail should be broken up into smaller companies.
Falcon
If you don't think a teacher can inspire students, you've never had a good teacher, let alone a great one.
But throwing money at teachers doesn't make them suddenly extremely good
You're right but paying teachers based on merit could very well encourage more people who are capable of teaching to teach. A slap on the back shouldn't be the only reward given to good teachers never mind great ones.
Falcon
You can pay teachers all you want, but it wont inspire students to learn and retain knowledge. Only parents/peers/culture can do that.
Some teachers can inspire students. Jaime Escalante was one.
Falcon
America's been behind the rest of the world in education for quite a while. I thought No Child Left Behind was supposed to fix this.
No Child Left Behind was not meant to fix the educational system in the US, it was meant to boost rote memory test scores. It's also a backdoor to privatizing education.
Falcon
Want your child to have access to actual college preparation? Private school is your only option unless you are lucky enough to live in an affluent area with better than average public education.
Both of my sisters and I grew up in a low income family in a low income area yet all three of us went to college. My older sister's a nurse while my younger sister got her Masters, is a CPA, and runs her own accounting business. While not everybody can do it most people can go to college if they set their minds to it.
Falcon
There's a simple way to have the best teachers rewarded appropriately - you completely eliminate government schools. The cream will rise to the top in the private-sector schools, as it does now.
Citation needed.
Falcon
I'm in Texas and the religious types here when I was growing up with take after you with "spare the rod spoil the child" in a heartbeat while the liberal dr. spocky types were all "that only teaches the child that violence is the answer".
I grew up in Florida and though there were "spare the rod spoil the child" religious types there were also those for whom physical punishment teaches violence is justified.
Falcon
Secular types lack a blind faith in an external morality and tend to be a lot wimpier. It seems nice "I never spank my child" and "do what feels good"
That's ironic, most of those I knew who wouldn't spank their children were religious and not secular. Those who were religious were also less likely to hurt their children's feelings, except when it came to religion.
Falcon
when people coming out of private religious schools tend to have a greater ability to grasp not only science better than their publicly educated counterparts, but most other subjects as well.
Citation needed.
Falcon
(In this case, inner city blacks, though liberals, intellectuals, Jews, women, gays, and many other groups serve that purpose just as well. This particular example is used because it is the only segment of American society that is less educated than the conservative base.)
I don't find it a surprise you're showing a lack of education yourself. A liberal of Classical liberalism is someone who stresses a doctrine of "individual freedom, free markets, and limited government." It extends from the Age of Enlightenment and Age of Reason.
Falcon
59% of adults polled think humans and dinosaurs lived together at one point in time. This was a WTF type of statistic. I hope they did this poll evenly spread out and not in say the deep south!
Seeing as how there's religious amusement parks showing dinosaurs and humans living together it's not surprising some people do believe they've lived together. There are a lot of young earthers.
Falcon
What I found annoying is how the article states that only 1% of the people knew how much the Earth's surface is covered with fresh water.
No, it says 47% know, here's the quote: "Only 47% of adults can roughly approximate the percent of the Earth's surface that is covered with water .(*)"
"(*) The approximately correct answer range for this question was defined as anything between 65% and 75%. Only 15% of respondents answered this question with the exactly correct answer of 70%."
Falcon
When you die should the government take your house, auction it off, and keep the money?
Whether on purpose or unintentionally you are mixing up property rights with what government can grant. Houses are real property which government can not deny. However government has the ability to, though does not have to, grant copyrights.
Falcon
You don't explain why an author should have control of what they wrote for their entire life. The reason there are copyrights is by giving authors and other artists limited monopolies they will be encouraged to write and create works of art. You encourage people thus by having them create more not by giving them a lifetime monopoly. And yes, I used to be a writer and am still a photographer.
Falcon
Right. You can't make a statutory, federal case against the infringer without registering the work. But that doesn't mean you have no ability to shut down an infringer without having regisered.
I didn't say that without registration infringers can't be stopped. In fact I said the opposite, "Without registering a copyright however the most you can get is a cease and desist order." Cease and Desist is an order or request to stop.
Falcon