Nobody is suggesting that people use nuclear energy in their homes... Nuclear works best with large reactors in isolated areas that rely on the power grid to get electricity to customers
The electricity from that source is great for generating hydrogen for fuel cells and powering manufacturing that is required for building components of 'clean' energy projects
We really need to get off of using fossil fuels, and no industry will do that with a solution that is more expensive like solar, wind, etc... nuclear is the most cost efficient alternative to fossil.
He used to be the President of Greenpeace and was *ahem* asked to leave, primarily due to his advocacy of Nuclear Energy
At this point Greenpeace is as stuck in its position of advocating against Nuclear Energy as the NRA is against gun control, and they are both looking like obstacles to any positive change in the status quo
By working against Nuclear Energy, Greenpeace has managed to be as big a supporter of continued fossil fuel dependence as the Koch bros.
There are plenty of smart environmentalists out there, and the uninformed ones should be donating their money somewhere besides Greenpeace
Siddhartha is supposed to have come from royal birth in a society that practiced Hinduism. He was supposed to have been from a high station of birth, and in that tradition it carried on all sorts of entitlements and indications of superiority due to reincarnation
He had rejected all of the benefits of his birth, and apparently the existing religious norms in the search of truth
In the course of these endeavors he reached ultimate defeat, and at the end of his rope, realized the truths that he went on to teach that have been called Buddhism
There was not a lot of focus on the mechanics of an afterlife, just that a person should work to detach themselves from the wheel of life (reincarnation) to become free enough to gain greater realization
Buddhism was developed in a world that viewed reincarnation as 'normal', and it grew widely in a world where that was a common belief (along with ancestor worship and more secular traditions like Confucianism), so it it not unusual to see it reflected in the traditions, but at its heart Buddhism seeks to free the individual from the bonds of reincarnation
Yes, what I meant is that when faced with increasing deficits due to his tax cuts and military spending, unlike Reagan, he refused to push his party towards accepting tax increases
Reagan was a moderate compared to the current gopers and their quest to find the next Reagan will fail because their would reject the real Reagan as a rino
And yes, the middle class will bear the brunt of this and considering the reliance on sales taxes, the poor will pay more towards this debt as well
What needs to be said is, no I do not hate the wealthy, but yes I feel that they need to pay more in taxes, considering that they have done so well in the economic environment that this country created for them
And, if they decide to leave this country in droves, then they can enjoy higher taxes in Europe, political corruption in Asia or the costs of paying for their own police force and infrastructure anywhere else
Actually, Reagan initially cut taxes and then (unlike the teapartiests of today) realized that he would have to raise taxes, which he did
Reagan also (like the op said) increased military spending dramatically and cut social programs, effectively diverting the tax revenues from the poor to the wealthy
Bush 2 played the game much harder and kept tax cuts in place while riding the national debt to new heights. As far as military spending went, they kept the mounting war debt off the books, which magically made Obama responsible for it when he brought that debt back on the books
It IS all the childish games that the gop has decided to play on Americans that have put us in this position and no amount of o'really bloviating or hannity shouting down the truth will change that
no government is run by people, if we look at the history over the past decades that the NSA has been around... the US does not seem to have fallen into the dystopia that you have drawn up
sure be vigilant, sure be aware of your environment, but what you are doing is just fear inducing screeching that does nothing to help people
... Anyone that lives in the US and isn't concerned about what the NSA has done is ignorant or helping them make in roads into our privacy...
Well, I think that anybody who was shocked and surprised by the revelations is pretty much ignorant.
The NSA has gone from a never-mentioned no-such-agency to a recognized public entity in the past 40 years. The use of meta data has been the subject of court cases going back to the 70's with a SCOTUS ruling in the '80s that pretty much ruled the data as the property of the phone companies and that their customers had no expectation of privacy The heads of TLA's have appeared at security conferences and stated that nobody should underestimate their capabilities Then there was the wholesale shock that they did not identify and stop the 911 attacks, followed by the wholesale funding of data collection, analysis and sharing between agencies
oh wow, Snowden 'discovered' the Patriot Act... and fyi, it is governed by the people, and the US hasn't fallen into a fascist death-camp filled, modernized killing fields of constant disappearances and suppression oh WOW!
I think that most successful corporate heads these days could be called sociopaths
Gates-wise, certainly evil in the eyes of microsoft's competitors for the better part of three decades, but he has really put forward a Carnegie-esque effort to 'do good' with his accrued wealth
Snowden-wise I think that you are pretty much spot on with the whole manipulation by greenwald angle. Maybe even the idea that Snowden has a latent superiority complex that greenwald fed into and used to manipulate him,
Where does Snowden's redemption lie? Can he attempt to buy his reputation like Gates or Carnegie? Are public events like SXSW that currency that he will spend on it? If that is it, then I am not buying it. It is one thing to buy into the idea that Gates bringing clean water to Africa is a good thing, it is quite another thing to label Snowden's one-sided fear mongering as 'good'
Just in case you didn't notice, metadata, as Pen Registers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pen_register) has been used in the US for decades and it was even ruled Constitutional by the SCOTUS in Smith v Maryland
Just because _any_ intelligence organization is using a particular method does not mean that _all_ intelligence agencies are like the Stassi
m'kay so... selling US government secrets to the remnants of the old Soviet Union is now called 'free market capitalism' Not to mention the celebrity stop-over in China on the way And before you go and claim that greenwald was just reporting on a story, consider how much effort he put in to make the whole thing happen There is a pretty strong reason that greenwald has no intention of setting foot back in America, and it is not (as he claims) the defense of marriage act since the relevant statutes were knocked down by the SCOTUS
Any job change in the 40 to 50 year range should be limited to pricey consulting jobs where you can gain a years salary in six months (with the intention of working a full year) or else you are risking losing everything
Get them to commit something to you at 3 month intervals based on performance i.e. 90 review with a set rate of compensation based on your performance, 180 review with assignment of position based on work being performed, even simple things like tools to be used, work environment, etc... should be well defined and you should start looking for another job if it looks like they are failing to deliver
Such is the state of political discourse these days
But, you may ask, why oh why?
Namely it is rooted in the capability for any well funded entity to lean their financial weight into their argument in a manner that shuts out individuals
It does not matter if it is Citizen's United ruling allowing billions of dollars to influence elections, snatching up media sources to influence content, or funding astro-turfing of message boards to make it seem like everybody else agrees with the corporate viewpoint
slashdot stood against these tides for years, by fighting off tech companies that wanted to own the opinions or individuals writing submissions to line their own pockets
If we do not fight back, then we are bound to loose because their funding is relatively infinite and the people willing to troll for them are legion
Make unsubstantiated claim undermining original argument... check Mention impotence of dreaded federal agency... check Lace with smarmy rhetoric... check Sidetrack entire argument with mention of unrelated case and easily mocked celebrity... check
see we call all shill for fun and profit, where do you go to get signed up?
Slashdot Mirror
Nobody is suggesting that people use nuclear energy in their homes... Nuclear works best with large reactors in isolated areas that rely on the power grid to get electricity to customers
The electricity from that source is great for generating hydrogen for fuel cells and powering manufacturing that is required for building components of 'clean' energy projects
We really need to get off of using fossil fuels, and no industry will do that with a solution that is more expensive like solar, wind, etc... nuclear is the most cost efficient alternative to fossil.
the WTO has legal protection for polluters in developing nations the prevents other nations from raising trade barriers to using their goods
We need to reevaluate the designations that were made in the mid-nineties and make them relevant in a world where China and India are economic powers
It's not even all of the environmentalists, check out Patrick Moore:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
He used to be the President of Greenpeace and was *ahem* asked to leave, primarily due to his advocacy of Nuclear Energy
At this point Greenpeace is as stuck in its position of advocating against Nuclear Energy as the NRA is against gun control, and they are both looking like obstacles to any positive change in the status quo
By working against Nuclear Energy, Greenpeace has managed to be as big a supporter of continued fossil fuel dependence as the Koch bros.
There are plenty of smart environmentalists out there, and the uninformed ones should be donating their money somewhere besides Greenpeace
Siddhartha is supposed to have come from royal birth in a society that practiced Hinduism. He was supposed to have been from a high station of birth, and in that tradition it carried on all sorts of entitlements and indications of superiority due to reincarnation
He had rejected all of the benefits of his birth, and apparently the existing religious norms in the search of truth
In the course of these endeavors he reached ultimate defeat, and at the end of his rope, realized the truths that he went on to teach that have been called Buddhism
There was not a lot of focus on the mechanics of an afterlife, just that a person should work to detach themselves from the wheel of life (reincarnation) to become free enough to gain greater realization
Buddhism was developed in a world that viewed reincarnation as 'normal', and it grew widely in a world where that was a common belief (along with ancestor worship and more secular traditions like Confucianism), so it it not unusual to see it reflected in the traditions, but at its heart Buddhism seeks to free the individual from the bonds of reincarnation
Yes, what I meant is that when faced with increasing deficits due to his tax cuts and military spending, unlike Reagan, he refused to push his party towards accepting tax increases
Reagan was a moderate compared to the current gopers and their quest to find the next Reagan will fail because their would reject the real Reagan as a rino
And yes, the middle class will bear the brunt of this and considering the reliance on sales taxes, the poor will pay more towards this debt as well
What needs to be said is, no I do not hate the wealthy, but yes I feel that they need to pay more in taxes, considering that they have done so well in the economic environment that this country created for them
And, if they decide to leave this country in droves, then they can enjoy higher taxes in Europe, political corruption in Asia or the costs of paying for their own police force and infrastructure anywhere else
Actually, Reagan initially cut taxes and then (unlike the teapartiests of today) realized that he would have to raise taxes, which he did
Reagan also (like the op said) increased military spending dramatically and cut social programs, effectively diverting the tax revenues from the poor to the wealthy
Bush 2 played the game much harder and kept tax cuts in place while riding the national debt to new heights. As far as military spending went, they kept the mounting war debt off the books, which magically made Obama responsible for it when he brought that debt back on the books
It IS all the childish games that the gop has decided to play on Americans that have put us in this position and no amount of o'really bloviating or hannity shouting down the truth will change that
seeing as you are the 'fake' globaljustin I'll just take you as a troll
AC talking smack... wowers
living in black and white world there?
no government is run by people, if we look at the history over the past decades that the NSA has been around... the US does not seem to have fallen into the dystopia that you have drawn up
sure be vigilant, sure be aware of your environment, but what you are doing is just fear inducing screeching that does nothing to help people
... Anyone that lives in the US and isn't concerned about what the NSA has done is ignorant or helping them make in roads into our privacy...
Well, I think that anybody who was shocked and surprised by the revelations is pretty much ignorant.
The NSA has gone from a never-mentioned no-such-agency to a recognized public entity in the past 40 years.
The use of meta data has been the subject of court cases going back to the 70's with a SCOTUS ruling in the '80s that pretty much ruled the data as the property of the phone companies and that their customers had no expectation of privacy
The heads of TLA's have appeared at security conferences and stated that nobody should underestimate their capabilities
Then there was the wholesale shock that they did not identify and stop the 911 attacks, followed by the wholesale funding of data collection, analysis and sharing between agencies
oh wow, Snowden 'discovered' the Patriot Act... and fyi, it is governed by the people, and the US hasn't fallen into a fascist death-camp filled, modernized killing fields of constant disappearances and suppression oh WOW!
I think that most successful corporate heads these days could be called sociopaths
Gates-wise, certainly evil in the eyes of microsoft's competitors for the better part of three decades, but he has really put forward a Carnegie-esque effort to 'do good' with his accrued wealth
Snowden-wise I think that you are pretty much spot on with the whole manipulation by greenwald angle. Maybe even the idea that Snowden has a latent superiority complex that greenwald fed into and used to manipulate him,
Where does Snowden's redemption lie? Can he attempt to buy his reputation like Gates or Carnegie? Are public events like SXSW that currency that he will spend on it? If that is it, then I am not buying it. It is one thing to buy into the idea that Gates bringing clean water to Africa is a good thing, it is quite another thing to label Snowden's one-sided fear mongering as 'good'
Wrong again, the FISA courts had oversight, just because you didn't have access did not mean that it didn't happen
Just in case you didn't notice, metadata, as Pen Registers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pen_register) has been used in the US for decades and it was even ruled Constitutional by the SCOTUS in Smith v Maryland
Just because _any_ intelligence organization is using a particular method does not mean that _all_ intelligence agencies are like the Stassi
m'kay
so... selling US government secrets to the remnants of the old Soviet Union is now called 'free market capitalism'
Not to mention the celebrity stop-over in China on the way
And before you go and claim that greenwald was just reporting on a story, consider how much effort he put in to make the whole thing happen
There is a pretty strong reason that greenwald has no intention of setting foot back in America, and it is not (as he claims) the defense of marriage act since the relevant statutes were knocked down by the SCOTUS
some?
http://resources.dice.com/2014...
looks like they are making their presence known, but hey who am I to judge?
this is not an add for Dice reps at SXSW
really
sure, it comes with a supply of xanax to deal with angry people all day
Any job change in the 40 to 50 year range should be limited to pricey consulting jobs where you can gain a years salary in six months (with the intention of working a full year) or else you are risking losing everything
Get them to commit something to you at 3 month intervals based on performance
i.e. 90 review with a set rate of compensation based on your performance, 180 review with assignment of position based on work being performed, even simple things like tools to be used, work environment, etc... should be well defined and you should start looking for another job if it looks like they are failing to deliver
leading with an ad hominem... nice
Such is the state of political discourse these days
But, you may ask, why oh why?
Namely it is rooted in the capability for any well funded entity to lean their financial weight into their argument in a manner that shuts out individuals
It does not matter if it is Citizen's United ruling allowing billions of dollars to influence elections, snatching up media sources to influence content, or funding astro-turfing of message boards to make it seem like everybody else agrees with the corporate viewpoint
slashdot stood against these tides for years, by fighting off tech companies that wanted to own the opinions or individuals writing submissions to line their own pockets
If we do not fight back, then we are bound to loose because their funding is relatively infinite and the people willing to troll for them are legion
then stop AC-ing
Um, yeah, Enron was getting into telecom (according to their propaganda) circa 1999
http://d-day.blogspot.com/2008...
bang!
Make unsubstantiated claim undermining original argument... check
Mention impotence of dreaded federal agency... check
Lace with smarmy rhetoric... check
Sidetrack entire argument with mention of unrelated case and easily mocked celebrity... check
see we call all shill for fun and profit, where do you go to get signed up?
I wondered if Exxon was getting into the cell phone business