Fuel efficiency regulations will make more expensive cars, because they are artificial anti-market tools. The car+fuel will be more expensive than the car+fuel would be with simple fuel taxes. And fewer loopholes in the regulations. And since expensive cars generally are more energy intensive to make, and most energy still comes from fossil fuel....
Reducing oil use will cost - there is no way around it. There are however cheaper ways, and mpg standards ain't it.
The politicians are simply pandering to an ignorant public who prefer a hidden, higher cost to one that they can see and understand. There is nothing 'smarter' about this - unless they are simply after votes....
So, you are saying that 'what is good for IT is good for america?' Cheaper labor is good for the economy as a whole - as it frees up cash for other productive uses. Ain't that the chief reason China is so competitive? The fact that it will hurt you poor IT wallet just makes you another pleading special interest economic illiterate.
The only 'fantasies' about the free market are that a) it has ever really been tried and b) that the special interests would ever let it alone. - On second thought, b) is a pretty damn big fantasy, built on impossible assumptions - just not the ones you had in mind.
it10t error detected. What you are proposing is just another version of the Smoot Hawley Tariff. Widely considered a major cause of the Great Depression.
Second, you are not even consistent in your own statements. That H1B visa holder from India? Where does he buy his food? His gas? His clothes? Does he rent an apartment here in the US, or India? His money is largely spent here.
"Science does not encourage all scientific assumptions to be examined and questioned,..."
Actually it does, just not all the time. If your assumptions lead to theories that do not match verifiable facts, then science does indeed require you to question the assumptions.
And legally, in most (all but 2) US states, breastfeeding is an exception - it isn't illegal even if the entire breast is exposed. In fact, the crime is asking her to cover-up/leave/stop in most places.
1 black hole plus 1 black hole does too = 2 black holes. Try it. Get a telescope. Find one black hole. Then find another. Then count them. See? Two black holes.
Now, if you combine two black holes... except combine isn't addition, in a mathematical sense.
Of course. There was already something other than radiation killing immune cells in the body. HIV. Those cells that are immune survive, the others... don't.
"I can tell you it didn't all go to the creator of the product, that's for sure. "
You got that right. He said that he pirated the album. None of the $79.99 went to the IP holder. Since he did not spend it on the album, where did he spend/save it? (go re-read the post I replied to;-) )
You need the Wikipedia entry on Trichoplax. They are really simple.
Also, this is 80% of Trichoplax's DNA is also in human DNA, not the reverse. Trichoplax's DNA is about 98 million base pairs, humans are around 3 billion... 80% of 'hello world' is also in the linux kernel, for a comparison...
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"Czars are for 19th century Russia and have no place in a modern United States government."
It is worse than that. Czar is nothing more than the slavic/russian version of the word Caesar.
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Fuel efficiency regulations will make more expensive cars, because they are artificial anti-market tools. The car+fuel will be more expensive than the car+fuel would be with simple fuel taxes. And fewer loopholes in the regulations. And since expensive cars generally are more energy intensive to make, and most energy still comes from fossil fuel....
Reducing oil use will cost - there is no way around it. There are however cheaper ways, and mpg standards ain't it.
The politicians are simply pandering to an ignorant public who prefer a hidden, higher cost to one that they can see and understand. There is nothing 'smarter' about this - unless they are simply after votes....
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Evidence please? - Serious question, not a snarky comment. I have seen to many assertions on both sides and little evidence.
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Months to learn
Impossible to master
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So, you are saying that 'what is good for IT is good for america?' Cheaper labor is good for the economy as a whole - as it frees up cash for other productive uses. Ain't that the chief reason China is so competitive? The fact that it will hurt you poor IT wallet just makes you another pleading special interest economic illiterate.
The only 'fantasies' about the free market are that a) it has ever really been tried and b) that the special interests would ever let it alone. - On second thought, b) is a pretty damn big fantasy, built on impossible assumptions - just not the ones you had in mind.
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it10t error detected. What you are proposing is just another version of the Smoot Hawley Tariff. Widely considered a major cause of the Great Depression.
Second, you are not even consistent in your own statements. That H1B visa holder from India? Where does he buy his food? His gas? His clothes? Does he rent an apartment here in the US, or India? His money is largely spent here.
"I don't see them as outweighing the benefits."
You can't see very far then.
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"Science does not encourage all scientific assumptions to be examined and questioned, ..."
Actually it does, just not all the time. If your assumptions lead to theories that do not match verifiable facts, then science does indeed require you to question the assumptions.
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Well, it was 3 - this is why I knew about it. link
As for nursing in public, why not just allow it
In most of the US, it is allowed. check your state laws.
And legally, in most (all but 2) US states, breastfeeding is an exception - it isn't illegal even if the entire breast is exposed. In fact, the crime is asking her to cover-up/leave/stop in most places.
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Yup. Without people like you, censorship wouldn't exist.
Nothing personal...
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1 black hole plus 1 black hole does too = 2 black holes. Try it. Get a telescope. Find one black hole. Then find another. Then count them. See? Two black holes.
Now, if you combine two black holes... except combine isn't addition, in a mathematical sense.
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Units please, 1 small cloud + 1 small cloud does not = 1 small cloud. And 1 cat + 1 mouse != 2 fish either.
Bad math does not disprove good math. Please try again.
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Of course. There was already something other than radiation killing immune cells in the body. HIV. Those cells that are immune survive, the others... don't.
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For Instant Runoff, you go to the polls once.
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What you describe is a simplified version of instant runoff voting. As you can see from other posts, yes it is an idea worth exploring
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You got that right. He said that he pirated the album. None of the $79.99 went to the IP holder. Since he did not spend it on the album, where did he spend/save it? (go re-read the post I replied to ;-) )
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I'm guessing that you didn't RTFA did you? This was addressed, 79.99 is not the correct figure either.
Here is a hint - Where did that 79.99 go instead?
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Also, this is 80% of Trichoplax's DNA is also in human DNA, not the reverse. Trichoplax's DNA is about 98 million base pairs, humans are around 3 billion... 80% of 'hello world' is also in the linux kernel, for a comparison...
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Sweet! You install it, and then I will cut in front of you..... ;-)
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You forgot to include 'effective' in your list.
Nerf makes a whole line of "safe non-lethal weapons". I don't think the army is interested... :-)
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