Little do they realise that while their ZEV doesn't pollute, the power they used to charge their cars came from sources that did. All they did was move the pollution upstream. Out of sight, out of mind I guess.
Nuh-uh. EV drivers are not responsible at all for ANY of the pollution produced by power companies run by businessmen who choose to keep burning dirty fossil fuels rather than switch to clean renewable energy sources. You burn it you own it.
I stand by what I wrote because it's totally true. Greenhouse gases may not be toxic to *you* but there is no denying their overall life-threatening effect on the planet as a whole. Just ask any thirsty Californian, or a polar bear.
We all need to pull our heads out of the sand and see clearly what the greedy billionaires are doing to us just to fatten their Swiss bank accounts.
Before the Civil War they said freeing the slaves would ruin the economy. The US had to free them because it was a moral imperative. The war cost us 5% of the US population in casualties. The sum total of the monetary value of all slaves at the start of the civil war was roughly one trillion dollars in today's dollars. The slaves were freed and the US became the world's greatest economic power as a result.
Fast forward to today. The oligarchic elites (the Koch brothers and other greedy billionaires) control roughly fourteen trillion dollars in fossil fuels. In order to monetize their investment they need to suck it out of the earth and burn it. The resulting pollution would kill at least millions, if not render the entire planet uninhabitable. There is a moral imperative to not do that.
If one trillion dollars was sufficient to justify killing or wounding 5% of all Americans, I shudder to think how many people the Koch brothers and their friends are willing to kill or wound for fourteen trillion dollars.
Our economy was based on slave labor. We emancipated the slaves, and surprise! We prospered anyway. Now our economy is based on generating poison gas from fossil fuels. When we stop burning fossil fuels, I predict we'll prosper anyway. Maybe not the Koch brothers. Oh boo-hoo.
Absolutely. Compare the $20 trillion in fossil fuel reserves to the total monetary value of the 4 million US slaves in 1860 -- roughly $1 trillion in today's dollars. It was not easy for us to convince the wealthy of the time to get rid of that sum of wealth. It took a bloody war in which over half a million Americans died -- 2% of the US population. But it was the right thing to do, just like switching to renewable energy sources is the right thing for us to do.
Why do you think "they can't even keep your tax data"? The company I work for is far more careful with customer data than with the emails I send to my coworkers.
Absolutely! Nobody really knows what sensitive user data is uploaded to the Microsoft mother ship by "Windows Activation", "Windows Update", and "Windows Genuine Advantage". Also, nobody really knows whether spook agencies use "Windows Update" to install root kits and spyware but judging by TFA I'd say the odds are they do. Time to switch to Linux.
You're way off base here. Automobile transportation requires a massive public investment in infrastructure. The public, acting collectively in the form of a democratically elected government, therefore gets to decide how its infrastructure is used. From this it should be obvious that we need a living constitution otherwise we'd have to amend it every time somebody invented something new and the constitution would be a ponderous tome.
We bother outlawing murder, we should bother defining each method of murder. Is strangling worse or better than a claw hammer to the head? Why does it matter if a pistol was used and not an "assault rifle". And why do we go after "assault rifles" when the pistols / revolvers were used?
I'm licensed to drive a car. Why isn't that sufficient for me to operate a big rig?
I realize that the left tends to be more passionate about things, and uses their feelings to judge things, but it doesn't really serve society well. We should judge the results, not the intentions. When I hear "what about the children?" asked, I know whatever comes next isn't about results, it is about how someone feels about something. Tyranny comes next.
You should also realize that the right's gun fetish clouds their judgement at the expense of common-sense gun regulations.This is why assault weapons can be easily obtained by mass-murderers, crazy people, drug dealers, and gang bangers. Tyranny is when you can't safely go to a school, a shopping mall, or a movie theater without becoming a statistic in the latest mass killing.
Slashdot Mirror
FB is a website. It's part of the World-Wide Web. Russia is part of the world. There are Russians on FB.
The question is: so what?
If you don't want to be influenced by foreigners, don't surf the web.
Nuh-uh. EV drivers are not responsible at all for ANY of the pollution produced by power companies run by businessmen who choose to keep burning dirty fossil fuels rather than switch to clean renewable energy sources. You burn it you own it.
The 1% get showered with gold, the 99% with Tea PeePee.
No it's really all about a partisan political witch hunt. Kevin McCarthy even confessed to it.
Benghazi! Benghzai! Benghazi!
[Nothing happens]
Look over there! Email!
I stand by what I wrote because it's totally true. Greenhouse gases may not be toxic to *you* but there is no denying their overall life-threatening effect on the planet as a whole. Just ask any thirsty Californian, or a polar bear.
We all need to pull our heads out of the sand and see clearly what the greedy billionaires are doing to us just to fatten their Swiss bank accounts.
Ooh, an economy alarmist bullshitter.
Before the Civil War they said freeing the slaves would ruin the economy. The US had to free them because it was a moral imperative. The war cost us 5% of the US population in casualties. The sum total of the monetary value of all slaves at the start of the civil war was roughly one trillion dollars in today's dollars. The slaves were freed and the US became the world's greatest economic power as a result.
Fast forward to today. The oligarchic elites (the Koch brothers and other greedy billionaires) control roughly fourteen trillion dollars in fossil fuels. In order to monetize their investment they need to suck it out of the earth and burn it. The resulting pollution would kill at least millions, if not render the entire planet uninhabitable. There is a moral imperative to not do that.
If one trillion dollars was sufficient to justify killing or wounding 5% of all Americans, I shudder to think how many people the Koch brothers and their friends are willing to kill or wound for fourteen trillion dollars.
Our economy was based on slave labor. We emancipated the slaves, and surprise! We prospered anyway. Now our economy is based on generating poison gas from fossil fuels. When we stop burning fossil fuels, I predict we'll prosper anyway. Maybe not the Koch brothers. Oh boo-hoo.
Absolutely. Compare the $20 trillion in fossil fuel reserves to the total monetary value of the 4 million US slaves in 1860 -- roughly $1 trillion in today's dollars. It was not easy for us to convince the wealthy of the time to get rid of that sum of wealth. It took a bloody war in which over half a million Americans died -- 2% of the US population. But it was the right thing to do, just like switching to renewable energy sources is the right thing for us to do.
Why do you think "they can't even keep your tax data"? The company I work for is far more careful with customer data than with the emails I send to my coworkers.
Only the slashtard crowd loves him.
Yeah just ask President McCain and President Romney.
They need to calculate what to do when players go on paternity leave.
The purpose of non-technical management is to absorb all the stock options before the people who actually design the company's products can get any.
Bringing back serfdom.
Absolutely! Nobody really knows what sensitive user data is uploaded to the Microsoft mother ship by "Windows Activation", "Windows Update", and "Windows Genuine Advantage". Also, nobody really knows whether spook agencies use "Windows Update" to install root kits and spyware but judging by TFA I'd say the odds are they do. Time to switch to Linux.
Start->All Programs->Accessories->Command Prompt is the old pointy-clicky way of doing it.
Oh baloney. If you get information by reading the Guardian, on what planet does that confirm that the Guardian is telling the truth?
FU conservative. What about the "well-regulated militia" clause?
computer programs which replace a mechanical or electromagnetic component
What would be realistic examples of this?
Turing machines.
You're way off base here. Automobile transportation requires a massive public investment in infrastructure. The public, acting collectively in the form of a democratically elected government, therefore gets to decide how its infrastructure is used. From this it should be obvious that we need a living constitution otherwise we'd have to amend it every time somebody invented something new and the constitution would be a ponderous tome.
We bother outlawing murder, we should bother defining each method of murder. Is strangling worse or better than a claw hammer to the head? Why does it matter if a pistol was used and not an "assault rifle". And why do we go after "assault rifles" when the pistols / revolvers were used?
I'm licensed to drive a car. Why isn't that sufficient for me to operate a big rig?
I realize that the left tends to be more passionate about things, and uses their feelings to judge things, but it doesn't really serve society well. We should judge the results, not the intentions. When I hear "what about the children?" asked, I know whatever comes next isn't about results, it is about how someone feels about something. Tyranny comes next.
You should also realize that the right's gun fetish clouds their judgement at the expense of common-sense gun regulations.This is why assault weapons can be easily obtained by mass-murderers, crazy people, drug dealers, and gang bangers. Tyranny is when you can't safely go to a school, a shopping mall, or a movie theater without becoming a statistic in the latest mass killing.
Then why bother outlawing murder?
The CD can get played 100 times. Assuming 10 tracks/cd times 100 plays, a CD sale is equal to 1000 plays and the royalty is about the same.
Watching the wrong TV show has also been proven to make you stupider.
Romney needs to go on an apology tour.
So how is this any more tyrannical than mandating that you need a driver's license to drive on the public roads?