Why would the god-damned thing carry four hundred British Monetary Units twenty nautical miles into the sea? The notes get ruined by the salt water. Unless it carries coins...
I live in Europe. I'm pretty sure that, in my country, the courts would consider this kind of police work as provocation and dismiss the case.
When you Americans claim you're so much freer than Europeans, you should take a better look. Most of the time it's propaganda bullshit. We're not arrested for thought crimes.
Well, creating shareholder value is easy. Just fire everyone you can, close as many departments as possible, collect your bonuses and leave the company before shit hits the fan. Business today is all about huge short-term profits.
Even a moron can do that. What is really, really hard is to get all the connections and friends that will land you on a job like this.
Both sides have taken to over-exaggerating and over-hyping every bit of evidence they touch. And I've come to distrust them both.
Congratulations, you've become like the big-oil corporations want you. Paralysed and numb. Don't do anything, the Invisible Hand of the Free Markets will make problems fix themselves.
The guys from the Times Atlas of the World made a fucking mistake. It's just a fucking mistake!
Of course, since it involves polar ice melting, all the global warming deniers have an excuse for screaming "OMG! Climate alarmism! We're all going to diiiiiie!". And yet another futile argument about the whole thing begins, with the deniers using every piece of biased, partial or out-of-context data, every strawman, every logical pitfall, or straight out lying.
Why is this on Slashdot, anyway? Is it "stuff that matters"?
I don't own a hummer, and I use a swamp cooler, not A/C. I also use solar power to run a small portion of my home, and have plans to go all the way soon. That doesn't change the fact that poor people around the world buy food with "Made in the USA" on it, and that your half baked ideas to cap carbon emissions will make that food much, much, MUCH more expensive, causing what will likely be the greatest human die off since the Black Death.
I wonder, since most of the developed countries have a lot stricter environmental regulations than the US, we should all be dying here. Well, I haven't noticed.
I have studied history, economics, and policy in Africa in detail. Much more so than you likely ever have. You toss around ad hominem like it's fucking candy in a parade while real people starve to death as a result of your countries' genocidal policies. Christ, it's sickening.
Well, millions are starving in East Africa right now, as a result of extreme drought. THAT's sickening, not your crazy scenarios.
Also funny that you seem to think there was no such thing as a drought prior to "global warming". I thought you were mad at "deniers" for conflating weather and climate?
It ever was, but it's getting worse because of global warming.
If we turn out to be wrong, we are wasting a lot of time that we could be spending figuring out how to deal with temperatures rising.
Do you realise you don't make any sense? We are already adapting to the rising temperatures, because we can't escape rising sea levels, hurricanes and droughts. Do you suggest we shouldn't be improving our energy efficiency also?
I have no doubt we will be ok at adapting either to deal with higher temperatures or to lower them if we caused the increase, but I don't think we should put our eggs in one basket. The Earth has had far larger temperature swings in the past and we will adapt even as the ecology changes around us.
Sure we can adapt. I'm pretty sure you could adapt living naked in a cage eating cockroaches. Not that you'd like it that much.
It is neither overwhelmingly verified nor agreed upon. Even if it was, so was terracentrism.
Now, what a completely stupid comparison to make. Geocentrism was the result of superstition, religion and speculation. When Galileo applied the scientific method he found that the Earth could not possibly be the centre of the Universe. And then the fucktards in the Catholic Church imposed their obscurantist view on him. They're the AGW deniers of the time.
And what is uncomfortable and inconvenient for Americans is deadly for poor people around the world. I guess you forgot that not everyone is as rich as you are, or that the primary purpose of the economy is to ensure that everyone's desires are met, most especially the stringent desire to live.
Africa has been suffering more and more with global warming. They get more severe droughts and rampant desertification that causes famine, mass migrations and conflicts. If you want to be able to fill up your Hummer for a few bucks, and keep your house AC on for 24/7 at 18C, please don't use the poor people in the Third World as an excuse. It's cynical and cruel.
But you would ignore that based on some mumbo-jumbo about how the Earth is going to do SOMETHING to make things somehow worse, ignoring the fact that the "solution" is far, far worse than the "problem".
If you start an argument by considering the work of many respected scientists to be "mumbo-jumbo", I guess that says it all about your intellectual ability/honesty.
And why the fuck should the US destroy anything thousands of Km away from its territory? Mind your own fucking business and leave the rest of the world alone!
Wow, I'm soooo sure a vast majority of the poor innocent domain parkers fall into these extremely specific cases you just described. Oh, the poor innocent domain parkers, being persecuted by shameless Internet crooks. I'm soooo sad.
He owns a domain parking company, so he's part of the problem. Domain parking qualifies as "domain-name fraud", it just happens to be legal in many places.
If you're gonna swim with the sharks, you gotta learn to bite.
You assume the deniers are arguing for the sake of the truth. Deniers will cling to any little piece of pseudo-facts that will allow them to win the argument that the world is perfect and it's no use to do anything. The anti-environment, pro-big-oil right-wing establishment has been able to convince almost everyone in the US of this. Fortunately, not so much in Europe.
I find it hard to believe your government won't let you give fast food to your kids once a month. I live in Europe and I could raise my kids on fast food only, if I wanted to. So, what's your point?
About playing world police, I'm totally on your side. Please find more people like you and squeeze your politicians' nuts to end the stupidity. The rest of the world will be very thankful. Unfortunately, American corporations and their pet corrupt politicians around the globe don't feel the same.
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Why would the god-damned thing carry four hundred British Monetary Units twenty nautical miles into the sea? The notes get ruined by the salt water. Unless it carries coins...
No, they eat too much anyway.
Yes. The "thing" is called "parasite".
I live in Europe. I'm pretty sure that, in my country, the courts would consider this kind of police work as provocation and dismiss the case.
When you Americans claim you're so much freer than Europeans, you should take a better look. Most of the time it's propaganda bullshit. We're not arrested for thought crimes.
Shit is plant food, too. Can we spray your house with it?
Obviously, your teachers should have spent more time teaching you how to express yourself in writing.
You've been reading my mind, haven't you?
Well, creating shareholder value is easy. Just fire everyone you can, close as many departments as possible, collect your bonuses and leave the company before shit hits the fan. Business today is all about huge short-term profits.
Even a moron can do that. What is really, really hard is to get all the connections and friends that will land you on a job like this.
But then we're all going to burn in hell!
Both sides have taken to over-exaggerating and over-hyping every bit of evidence they touch. And I've come to distrust them both.
Congratulations, you've become like the big-oil corporations want you. Paralysed and numb. Don't do anything, the Invisible Hand of the Free Markets will make problems fix themselves.
The guys from the Times Atlas of the World made a fucking mistake. It's just a fucking mistake!
Of course, since it involves polar ice melting, all the global warming deniers have an excuse for screaming "OMG! Climate alarmism! We're all going to diiiiiie!". And yet another futile argument about the whole thing begins, with the deniers using every piece of biased, partial or out-of-context data, every strawman, every logical pitfall, or straight out lying.
Why is this on Slashdot, anyway? Is it "stuff that matters"?
I "thin" you need an English "cource".
As the summary notes, this will teach kids logic and thinking systematically.
Poor kids. That will exclude them from taking a vast number of professions, like politician, lawyer, journalist, etc.
Get a really hot interviewer and the machine discovers everybody is a liar.
I don't own a hummer, and I use a swamp cooler, not A/C. I also use solar power to run a small portion of my home, and have plans to go all the way soon. That doesn't change the fact that poor people around the world buy food with "Made in the USA" on it, and that your half baked ideas to cap carbon emissions will make that food much, much, MUCH more expensive, causing what will likely be the greatest human die off since the Black Death.
I wonder, since most of the developed countries have a lot stricter environmental regulations than the US, we should all be dying here. Well, I haven't noticed.
I have studied history, economics, and policy in Africa in detail. Much more so than you likely ever have. You toss around ad hominem like it's fucking candy in a parade while real people starve to death as a result of your countries' genocidal policies. Christ, it's sickening.
Well, millions are starving in East Africa right now, as a result of extreme drought. THAT's sickening, not your crazy scenarios.
Also funny that you seem to think there was no such thing as a drought prior to "global warming". I thought you were mad at "deniers" for conflating weather and climate?
It ever was, but it's getting worse because of global warming.
If we turn out to be wrong, we are wasting a lot of time that we could be spending figuring out how to deal with temperatures rising.
Do you realise you don't make any sense? We are already adapting to the rising temperatures, because we can't escape rising sea levels, hurricanes and droughts. Do you suggest we shouldn't be improving our energy efficiency also?
I have no doubt we will be ok at adapting either to deal with higher temperatures or to lower them if we caused the increase, but I don't think we should put our eggs in one basket. The Earth has had far larger temperature swings in the past and we will adapt even as the ecology changes around us.
Sure we can adapt. I'm pretty sure you could adapt living naked in a cage eating cockroaches. Not that you'd like it that much.
It is neither overwhelmingly verified nor agreed upon. Even if it was, so was terracentrism.
Now, what a completely stupid comparison to make. Geocentrism was the result of superstition, religion and speculation. When Galileo applied the scientific method he found that the Earth could not possibly be the centre of the Universe. And then the fucktards in the Catholic Church imposed their obscurantist view on him. They're the AGW deniers of the time.
And what is uncomfortable and inconvenient for Americans is deadly for poor people around the world. I guess you forgot that not everyone is as rich as you are, or that the primary purpose of the economy is to ensure that everyone's desires are met, most especially the stringent desire to live.
Africa has been suffering more and more with global warming. They get more severe droughts and rampant desertification that causes famine, mass migrations and conflicts. If you want to be able to fill up your Hummer for a few bucks, and keep your house AC on for 24/7 at 18C, please don't use the poor people in the Third World as an excuse. It's cynical and cruel.
But you would ignore that based on some mumbo-jumbo about how the Earth is going to do SOMETHING to make things somehow worse, ignoring the fact that the "solution" is far, far worse than the "problem".
If you start an argument by considering the work of many respected scientists to be "mumbo-jumbo", I guess that says it all about your intellectual ability/honesty.
And why the fuck should the US destroy anything thousands of Km away from its territory? Mind your own fucking business and leave the rest of the world alone!
Wow, I'm soooo sure a vast majority of the poor innocent domain parkers fall into these extremely specific cases you just described. Oh, the poor innocent domain parkers, being persecuted by shameless Internet crooks. I'm soooo sad.
He owns a domain parking company, so he's part of the problem. Domain parking qualifies as "domain-name fraud", it just happens to be legal in many places.
If you're gonna swim with the sharks, you gotta learn to bite.
You assume the deniers are arguing for the sake of the truth. Deniers will cling to any little piece of pseudo-facts that will allow them to win the argument that the world is perfect and it's no use to do anything. The anti-environment, pro-big-oil right-wing establishment has been able to convince almost everyone in the US of this. Fortunately, not so much in Europe.
corporations aren't allowed to jail and kill you.
So naive. What about Blackwater?
Anyway, my government is not allowed to kill anyone. Yours is, because most of your people support it.
I feel much safer now, knowing our government has the power to stop Microsoft from rolling out security updates in a country.
Better than the opposite. I trust governments more than corporations. Governments are (still) elected and accountable before their citizens
Of course, unless you're an anti-government fanatic libertarian nut-job.
You have never had a car, have you?
I find it hard to believe your government won't let you give fast food to your kids once a month. I live in Europe and I could raise my kids on fast food only, if I wanted to. So, what's your point?
About playing world police, I'm totally on your side. Please find more people like you and squeeze your politicians' nuts to end the stupidity. The rest of the world will be very thankful. Unfortunately, American corporations and their pet corrupt politicians around the globe don't feel the same.