What did the 'special snowflakes' that keep screaming that they're entitled to a $15/hr burger-flipping job expect would happen?
Well, it's started. Fast-food automation. More than started, it's being rolled out This is only the beginning.
It's even too late to back away from the $15/hr movement, as the gears have already been put in motion and now given a speed-boost towards full automation of fast-food jobs.
Good job, guys! Instead of the $15/hr you demanded or even whatever you'd been making or been offered in the past, now you'll get nothing at all because those jobs will cease to exist. Not gradually over the next 10-15 years with employee/employer cooperation and employment transition plans, but now it's overwhelmingly-likely to occur over the next 5 years or less with just a pink-slip and a "Good luck!" if they're lucky, and showing up to work and finding it locked and due for demolition to make room for serving-kiosk islands if not.
Put the footgun down and (limp/hobble/crawl) away.
if the police aren't doing anything wrong, why are they trying to hide it?
Because if they drive down the street with a car marked "POLICE LICENSE PLATE SCANNER" and find a car associated with a wanted suspect, then that suspect may be long gone by the time they come back to make an arrest.
But in this case it was an ALPR unit mounted to and operating from an *unoccupied* & parked vehicle, meaning that the data was not being collected for traffic or criminal law enforcement, but as part of travel-data collection for a mass-surveillance program. I keep a small can of black spray-paint handy for such unattended camera/ALPR units. Of course a 2x4, brick, or baseball bat also works a treat in a pinch.
There's little difference between a 'megabot' sort of ideal tactical/battlefield situation and that of most any modern armored/mechanized forces. Gaining air superiority is imperative prior to deploying armored forces in numbers on the modern battlefield, or else risk losing them to missiles/bombs and other air-to-surface/anti-armor enemy weapon systems
The main thing I see these type of mechanized individual armored battle vehicles adding are agility compared to tracked/wheeled battle vehicles, and infantry force multiplication, particularly if it can also carry 100kg-200kg of supplies or more and be made cheap enough to deploy in large numbers so that infantry units have the option to have 3 or 4 soldiers out of a 12-man combat unit deploy with these ambulatory mechanized infantry combat units for enhanced combat support and supply logistics (carrying more ammo/supplies into battle and carrying wounded out to be picked up) as well as their usefulness as a weapons/sensors/comms platform.
Could have fooled me! They always seem to demand greater government involvement in my life.
No no, you've got it right, they do want more control over your life! They just want to share the power, control, and wealth they gain in doing so with fewer people and be answerable to fewer people.
Many a criminal has been killed by his accomplices in order to 'fatten the split' and prevent them being a witness. Same principle here, except they eliminate the need for as many accomplices as they'd normally require, beforehand.
GIGO - The same corrupt leaders we have now will be in charge of how it's built, programmed, and implemented. There's no way in hell it won't be massively compromised before it even leaves the proposal-draft stage.
Asset Forfeiture is treason and the punishment for treason is death.
Abuse of asset forfeiture in a bad thing. But I don't think you actually understand what the word "treason" means. No, I'm sure you don't understand it.
Well since the rest of the US Constitution can be reinterpreted to mean whatever the government wants it to mean, can we not do a bit of reinterpretation in regards to the precise definition of Treason?
I mean, if seizing property without the owner even being charged with a crime and with little in the way of due process involved is Constitutional as the government insists it is, a slight change to the interpretation of what constitutes Treason seems rather minor in comparison.
How about we remove subsidies from ALL and then wait and see what and who can stand on their own?
Are you a paid troll for the oil and gas industry?
Your "Sig" reads: "Notice: Not liking my comments does not make me a troll, so don't call me one!"
Things that make you go "hmmm" on/.
I would also like to point out that if you want to fairly account for the cost of externalities, then wind/solar must include the costs of the fossil fuel power extraction/generation/transportation and their environmental impact used in wind/solar manufacture and delivery *plus* the unique costs of the wind/solar technology on top of that.
That is, *if* we're actually doing an apples-to-apples comparison that is, and not a battle of semantics and statistical 3-card Monty to suit an agenda. Oh wait, this is/.
I think getting nicotine second hand is probably harmless enough, but what about decomposing artificial sweeteners and flavorings on the heating element, and then inhaling those?
The vegetable glycerin and propylene glycol, along withthe flavorings, are all approved food ingredients are and have been approved for and used across a wide range of foods, caramelized candies in particular, where these ingredients are heated beyond the temperature range of e-cigs. Ever smelled candy odor wafting down the concourse at the mall? I don't think that's ever harmed anyone.
I believe the fear mongering is more about loss of tobacco tax revenues and there being an area that government hasn't yet stuck it's nose into 'for the children'. There's also big money in the medical industry related to the treatment of smoking-related illnesses and hospice care that could possibly be threatened by a sudden large reduction in tobacco sales and use, along with reduced tobacco tax revenues.
I thought we lived where you're free to do what you damn well please as long as it hasn't been outlawed.
But now we need explicit permission for ANYTHING?
WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?!
If we accept that by and large more rules means less freedom, and that governments by and large govern (which means creates & enforces rules which are limits on freedom), then it follows that more government means less individual freedom.
Once the US Federal government began blatantly violating the US Constitution in deeper and more fundamental ways beginning in modern times in the early 1900s, the US Federal government has grown immeasurably in size, power, and scope.
Power and control are a zero-sum game in that in order to increase one individual's or group's power and control, others must surrender (or have forcibly taken away) their power and control in roughly equal measure. When we speak of government versus citizens, governments only grow in domestic power and control by taking it away from the citizens.
To be honest, as much as the US Federal government has grown and comparing it to the paths and timelines of other nations through history, I'm surprised we have as much freedom, or even the illusion of it, left to us as we seem to enjoy currently.
We either put our big-boy pants on as Americans and handle our lives, responsibilities, and duties ourselves for the most part, or lose more and more rights, power, and control of our own lives as the government takes responsibility for more and more of peoples' lives and finally devolves into total corruption and collapse. Then the war(s) come At least, that's been the typical path if history is any guide. The US seems to be at the "devolving into total corruption" stage currently. Not many places left to hit an exit ramp before the big movie-cliff drop, and even those are now more like emergency dirt impact berms than a highway-style "exit ramp"
Better wake up and stop letting them divide us. I'd bet most everyday regular people, Democrat, Republican, Left, Right, Liberal, Conservative, black, white, whatever, etc etc, agree on *far* more principles than they disagree. And it's *principles* which matter most! It's just in how we go about doing things we all agree are good, like feeding the hungry, where we differ in how best that should be done.
Stop allowing them to play Emperor Palpatine and tell you to let the hate flow through you for $GROUP/IDEOLOGY/RELIGION/RACE/CLASS/ETC, for it is true that a "dark side" will surely follow. We saw a glimpse in WW2 of how that sort of thing goes.
a mere 15 million years ago CO2 levels were 4 times higher, average temperature was several degrees warmer, and seas were 200 feet higher. The earth was an unihabitable wasteland! no, wait, it was lusher and more fecund than now. It's a reasonable hypothesis that returning the CO2 levels to their prehistoric norms could raise temperatures back to the previous levels. That it would cause extinction level events for humanity is ridiculous chicken little bullshit.
People should look on the bright side.
In only a very short time in geological climate terms humans may well have gained the ability to accurately compute and predict the global climate related effects of human civilization on a planet-sized massively-chaotic system.
True, for now we humans only posses a tiny fraction of the knowledge of all the variables necessary to measure and account for as well as only a tiny fraction of the computing power that's necessary to create a model that even tracks past, known patterns accurately never mind multiple decades or centuries ahead, but there's hope for the future
The villification through fear-based propaganda of civilian ownership & use of drones has begun in earnest.
First, villify, then regulate, then outlaw.
That's the same playbook as those who would like a gun ban implemented use, except there's that pesky 2nd Amendment in the way with guns.
Fortunately for them, there's no such protection for drones, so they are free to proceed with the push to heavily regulate most drones & owners, and outright ban some types/uses of drones (typically the most useful as bureaucrats are wont to do).
The propaganda program to gin-up fear is the first step.
If the evidence is so overwhelming would it not be a much more sane and rational route to simply publicly prove them wrong instead of limiting free speech?
Why must you jump immediately to abridging the free speech rights of an otherwise law abiding person or group of like-minded people? What other rights do you think this fully-politicized agenda trumps?
To me it more closely resembles the old Catholic Church of the 1600s and Heliocentrism versus the Church's official Geocentric views.
About every decade or three or four, there's been some new impending climate doom predicted. Seriously, I've been around a good while and I've heard and watched this all before. The only difference is that the marketing's gotten slicker and shriller, and schools don't really teach crap anymore, they're babysitters.
It's all about wealth transfer. Every single international climate proposal, treaty, etc etc that I've ever heard of, when boiled down, was at it's core a transfer of wealth. Follow the money. *Always* follow the money.
Speaking of following the money, check out "The Creature From Jekyll Island" by G. Edward Griffin for an eye-opener on the US Federal Reserve and how it was born, why, and by whom it was designed and created.
Popular culture feels eugenics is wrong tho... So making a weapon that can easily be disabled remotely by authority sounds much easier and acceptable. Make no mistake thats the real ultimate aim..
"Oh Thufir, I see they installed your heart-plug already. Don't be angry, everyone gets one here!"
Looks like the Church of Climatology is jealous of the levels of esteem & high regard held for the Church of Scientology and the Westboro Baptist Church, and are exerting maximum effort towards correcting that discrepancy.
Can't fault the CoC for lack of effort in that regard.
The Church of Climatology: The US Progressive/Liberal version of the bastard-child of the Westboro Baptist Church and the Church of Scientology if they bred. Even the tactics they use against their critics are nearly indistinguishable.
Beyond necessary regulation to prevent interference, etc he's largely correct. Regulatory capture is a huge problem among regulatory agencies in the US.
Generally the larger, more powerful, and broad the regulatory agency's power is, the bigger the problem tends to be or become.
The FCC is no exception.
Government powerful enough to give you everything you want and need is powerful enough to take it all away...and/or sell it.
Modded "Troll"?
Really?
"I disagree" =/= "Troll"
Aren't you intelligent enough to form a cogent argument, Mr. AnonyMod?
Must be a Trump or Sanders/Hildebeast supporter. "The government is horrible & corrupt! Give it broad new powers and more of those other peoples' money!"
Don't forget, all those rules are only there to protect the incumbents from newcomers... regulatory capture to impose costs on them...
I'm not sure if this is a joke or not. I'd like to think it is, but something tells me you are serious.
Beyond necessary regulation to prevent interference, etc he's largely correct. Regulatory capture is a huge problem among regulatory agencies in the US.
Generally the larger, more powerful, and broad the regulatory agency's power is, the bigger the problem tends to be or become.
The FCC is no exception.
Government powerful enough to give you everything you want and need is powerful enough to take it all away...and/or sell it.
In the case of an encrypted hard drive, there may be no other way to get the evidence other than the owner decrypting it.
A (written) confession is also physical evidence. Sometimes, there may be no other way to get this evidence than jailing the suspect indefinitely until he produces it. Think about it.
They have the physical evidence already, the drives. The can copy and replicate the encrypted data to their hearts content. No, what they want is KNOWLEDGE, and it's knowledge that's immaterial. Being that this information is an extension of what's in his brain - requiring the final key to decode - how can the 5th not apply in this case??!!
Because we the government say so and we will happily imprison or kill anyone who opposes us. We've already fully subverted the election process such that anybody we allow you to vote for is already under our control.
- Cruz - Too much interested in promoting the stagnant republican agenda.
Wut?
Are we talking about the same guy that many if not most "establishment" Republicans despise so much they'd prefer Hillary Clinton as POTUS over him?
What I've heard from Cruz is a push to return to the Rule of Law where those in power are actually held accountable and insistence on Constitutional limits on government power. Of course if you get your information and opinions secondhand instead of actually researching things yourself, your confusion is understandable.
Students in a situation like that don't have a right to a lawyer, and they may not even have a right to remain silent.
What? How is that a thing? Fourth Amendment doesn't say anything about minors being exempt from its protection.
"Answer the questions Johnny or you'll be (expelled/suspended/anything-else-they-can-come-up-with) immediately!"
Also remember that police may knowingly outright lie to you, but any small detail of anything you say that's proven not 100% accurate, true, & factual is an arrestable and chargeable offense.
"When did you make this post?" "Uhh, 9:15pm." "The logs show it was actually 9:19pm. You're under arrest for providing false statements to law enforcement investigators."
What are reproducible experiments but experiments that have been reproduced and that are generally agreed to have been properly conducted? What use is a reproducible experiment that you have not reproduced? You accept other people's words that the experiment was indeed done. If you stop believing in what others in general say, how are you to progress? If you do believe in them, is that not consensus?
The only way a scientist can function is to assume that the consensus is generally correct.
So now it's semantic word games, eh? Independently verifiable results proven by independently conducted experiments are the only thing that count. Anything else is politics and hand-waving, but I repeat myself.
None of the predictions made by "climate scientists" has ever come to pass, none of the global cooling "crisis" of the 1970s nor of the global warming "crisis" currently in vogue.
They are both simply propaganda tools used to enable the transfer of wealth and concentration and centralization of political power.
There is more proof there were WMDs in Iraq than there is of an impending global climate crisis.
We don't have the technology to produce electricity from non-fossil-fuel sources?
Not as a replacement for current baseline power sources, no.
Getting rid of coal power plants would, I'd think, make a significant impact.
Without a viable replacement able to supply baseline power it will collapse the US power grid during the next winter. The US power grid came dangerously close to falling over this past winter due to the coal plants and nuclear plants already taken offline. Heck, the US power grid may collapse this winter without taking any more plants offline just due to increased demand due to population growth.
Silly me, I thought his oath was to uphold the Constitution.
That old rag? Nobody in the federal government has taken it seriously since at least Woodrow Wilson. If there were justice done, the top leaders/administrators at FBI/CIA/NSA and every Executive Branch agency would be put in front of a firing squad.
If consensus isn't science, what do you do to verify that there's enough gravity to keep you on the ground? There's firm scientific beliefs that that isn't going to change, but that's consensus.
No, sorry, reproducible experiments prove or disprove something, not consensus. It does not matter who agrees or disagrees.
You miss the whole point of climate change. The whole world is going to be poorer (on average...
I've seen no proof that AGW is that serious a problem or that immediate that the world should turn itself upside down and inside out as fast as possible over.
Reasonable and moderate actions on cleaning the environment coupled with adaptation seems the far more sensible choice.
"Consensus" is NOT science, it's politics, and there is far too much politics (and scummy politicians) and big money involved to be able to trust anything being said.
So you want to prevent Third World populations from advancing to 20th-century (never mind 21st-century) levels of technology/industry/medicine and living standards by force?
No, I want them to have the same emissions rights as we do. We will reduce ours while they raise theirs, meeting them somewhere in the middle. And that middle should mean a reduction compared to the current level.
We don't currently have the technology to produce the energy necessary to maintain a 21st century 1st-World living standard and technology level at the emission reduction levels that have been put forth as necessary to have a significant and meaningful impact.
This means the US population would face reductions in medicine, food, technology products/services and transportation, all of which would affect the poorest the worst, costing avoidable widespread death & suffering, and you would be telling Africans they are not allowed to advance these things for the lives of their own people beyond *just here*...and no more.
Based on models that can't even reproduce historic climate changes of the past with any reliability.
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...It begins.
What did the 'special snowflakes' that keep screaming that they're entitled to a $15/hr burger-flipping job expect would happen?
Well, it's started. Fast-food automation. More than started, it's being rolled out This is only the beginning.
It's even too late to back away from the $15/hr movement, as the gears have already been put in motion and now given a speed-boost towards full automation of fast-food jobs.
Good job, guys! Instead of the $15/hr you demanded or even whatever you'd been making or been offered in the past, now you'll get nothing at all because those jobs will cease to exist. Not gradually over the next 10-15 years with employee/employer cooperation and employment transition plans, but now it's overwhelmingly-likely to occur over the next 5 years or less with just a pink-slip and a "Good luck!" if they're lucky, and showing up to work and finding it locked and due for demolition to make room for serving-kiosk islands if not.
Put the footgun down and (limp/hobble/crawl) away.
Strat
But in this case it was an ALPR unit mounted to and operating from an *unoccupied* & parked vehicle, meaning that the data was not being collected for traffic or criminal law enforcement, but as part of travel-data collection for a mass-surveillance program. I keep a small can of black spray-paint handy for such unattended camera/ALPR units. Of course a 2x4, brick, or baseball bat also works a treat in a pinch.
Strat
I see your mega bot and raise you a guided bomb.
There's little difference between a 'megabot' sort of ideal tactical/battlefield situation and that of most any modern armored/mechanized forces. Gaining air superiority is imperative prior to deploying armored forces in numbers on the modern battlefield, or else risk losing them to missiles/bombs and other air-to-surface/anti-armor enemy weapon systems
The main thing I see these type of mechanized individual armored battle vehicles adding are agility compared to tracked/wheeled battle vehicles, and infantry force multiplication, particularly if it can also carry 100kg-200kg of supplies or more and be made cheap enough to deploy in large numbers so that infantry units have the option to have 3 or 4 soldiers out of a 12-man combat unit deploy with these ambulatory mechanized infantry combat units for enhanced combat support and supply logistics (carrying more ammo/supplies into battle and carrying wounded out to be picked up) as well as their usefulness as a weapons/sensors/comms platform.
Strat
(left wing wants less government?)
Could have fooled me! They always seem to demand greater government involvement in my life.
No no, you've got it right, they do want more control over your life! They just want to share the power, control, and wealth they gain in doing so with fewer people and be answerable to fewer people.
Many a criminal has been killed by his accomplices in order to 'fatten the split' and prevent them being a witness. Same principle here, except they eliminate the need for as many accomplices as they'd normally require, beforehand.
GIGO - The same corrupt leaders we have now will be in charge of how it's built, programmed, and implemented. There's no way in hell it won't be massively compromised before it even leaves the proposal-draft stage.
Strat
Well since the rest of the US Constitution can be reinterpreted to mean whatever the government wants it to mean, can we not do a bit of reinterpretation in regards to the precise definition of Treason?
I mean, if seizing property without the owner even being charged with a crime and with little in the way of due process involved is Constitutional as the government insists it is, a slight change to the interpretation of what constitutes Treason seems rather minor in comparison.
Strat
Your "Sig" reads: "Notice: Not liking my comments does not make me a troll, so don't call me one!"
Things that make you go "hmmm" on /.
I would also like to point out that if you want to fairly account for the cost of externalities, then wind/solar must include the costs of the fossil fuel power extraction/generation/transportation and their environmental impact used in wind/solar manufacture and delivery *plus* the unique costs of the wind/solar technology on top of that.
That is, *if* we're actually doing an apples-to-apples comparison that is, and not a battle of semantics and statistical 3-card Monty to suit an agenda. Oh wait, this is /.
Never mind.
Strat
I think getting nicotine second hand is probably harmless enough, but what about decomposing artificial sweeteners and flavorings on the heating element, and then inhaling those?
The vegetable glycerin and propylene glycol, along withthe flavorings, are all approved food ingredients are and have been approved for and used across a wide range of foods, caramelized candies in particular, where these ingredients are heated beyond the temperature range of e-cigs. Ever smelled candy odor wafting down the concourse at the mall? I don't think that's ever harmed anyone.
I believe the fear mongering is more about loss of tobacco tax revenues and there being an area that government hasn't yet stuck it's nose into 'for the children'. There's also big money in the medical industry related to the treatment of smoking-related illnesses and hospice care that could possibly be threatened by a sudden large reduction in tobacco sales and use, along with reduced tobacco tax revenues.
Strat
What the hell is wrong?
I thought we lived where you're free to do what you damn well please as long as it hasn't been outlawed.
But now we need explicit permission for ANYTHING?
WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?!
If we accept that by and large more rules means less freedom, and that governments by and large govern (which means creates & enforces rules which are limits on freedom), then it follows that more government means less individual freedom.
Once the US Federal government began blatantly violating the US Constitution in deeper and more fundamental ways beginning in modern times in the early 1900s, the US Federal government has grown immeasurably in size, power, and scope.
Power and control are a zero-sum game in that in order to increase one individual's or group's power and control, others must surrender (or have forcibly taken away) their power and control in roughly equal measure. When we speak of government versus citizens, governments only grow in domestic power and control by taking it away from the citizens.
To be honest, as much as the US Federal government has grown and comparing it to the paths and timelines of other nations through history, I'm surprised we have as much freedom, or even the illusion of it, left to us as we seem to enjoy currently.
We either put our big-boy pants on as Americans and handle our lives, responsibilities, and duties ourselves for the most part, or lose more and more rights, power, and control of our own lives as the government takes responsibility for more and more of peoples' lives and finally devolves into total corruption and collapse. Then the war(s) come At least, that's been the typical path if history is any guide. The US seems to be at the "devolving into total corruption" stage currently. Not many places left to hit an exit ramp before the big movie-cliff drop, and even those are now more like emergency dirt impact berms than a highway-style "exit ramp"
Better wake up and stop letting them divide us. I'd bet most everyday regular people, Democrat, Republican, Left, Right, Liberal, Conservative, black, white, whatever, etc etc, agree on *far* more principles than they disagree. And it's *principles* which matter most! It's just in how we go about doing things we all agree are good, like feeding the hungry, where we differ in how best that should be done.
Stop allowing them to play Emperor Palpatine and tell you to let the hate flow through you for $GROUP/IDEOLOGY/RELIGION/RACE/CLASS/ETC, for it is true that a "dark side" will surely follow. We saw a glimpse in WW2 of how that sort of thing goes.
Strat
a mere 15 million years ago CO2 levels were 4 times higher, average temperature was several degrees warmer, and seas were 200 feet higher.
The earth was an unihabitable wasteland!
no, wait, it was lusher and more fecund than now.
It's a reasonable hypothesis that returning the CO2 levels to their prehistoric norms could raise temperatures back to the previous levels. That it would cause extinction level events for humanity is ridiculous chicken little bullshit.
People should look on the bright side.
In only a very short time in geological climate terms humans may well have gained the ability to accurately compute and predict the global climate related effects of human civilization on a planet-sized massively-chaotic system.
True, for now we humans only posses a tiny fraction of the knowledge of all the variables necessary to measure and account for as well as only a tiny fraction of the computing power that's necessary to create a model that even tracks past, known patterns accurately never mind multiple decades or centuries ahead, but there's hope for the future
Strat
The villification through fear-based propaganda of civilian ownership & use of drones has begun in earnest.
First, villify, then regulate, then outlaw.
That's the same playbook as those who would like a gun ban implemented use, except there's that pesky 2nd Amendment in the way with guns.
Fortunately for them, there's no such protection for drones, so they are free to proceed with the push to heavily regulate most drones & owners, and outright ban some types/uses of drones (typically the most useful as bureaucrats are wont to do).
The propaganda program to gin-up fear is the first step.
Strat
... disinformation...
Who decides what is or is not "disinformation"?
If the evidence is so overwhelming would it not be a much more sane and rational route to simply publicly prove them wrong instead of limiting free speech?
Why must you jump immediately to abridging the free speech rights of an otherwise law abiding person or group of like-minded people? What other rights do you think this fully-politicized agenda trumps?
To me it more closely resembles the old Catholic Church of the 1600s and Heliocentrism versus the Church's official Geocentric views.
About every decade or three or four, there's been some new impending climate doom predicted. Seriously, I've been around a good while and I've heard and watched this all before. The only difference is that the marketing's gotten slicker and shriller, and schools don't really teach crap anymore, they're babysitters.
It's all about wealth transfer. Every single international climate proposal, treaty, etc etc that I've ever heard of, when boiled down, was at it's core a transfer of wealth. Follow the money. *Always* follow the money.
Speaking of following the money, check out "The Creature From Jekyll Island" by G. Edward Griffin for an eye-opener on the US Federal Reserve and how it was born, why, and by whom it was designed and created.
Strat
Probably not a road you want to go down considering the continuous witch hunts and slanderous accusations thrown at climate scientists.
Yeah, it's not like climate alarmists have seriously proposed rounding up and prosecuting "climate change denialists".
Oh wait...
Strat
Popular culture feels eugenics is wrong tho... So making a weapon that can easily be disabled remotely by authority sounds much easier and acceptable. Make no mistake thats the real ultimate aim..
"Oh Thufir, I see they installed your heart-plug already. Don't be angry, everyone gets one here!"
Strat
Looks like the Church of Climatology is jealous of the levels of esteem & high regard held for the Church of Scientology and the Westboro Baptist Church, and are exerting maximum effort towards correcting that discrepancy.
Can't fault the CoC for lack of effort in that regard.
The Church of Climatology: The US Progressive/Liberal version of the bastard-child of the Westboro Baptist Church and the Church of Scientology if they bred. Even the tactics they use against their critics are nearly indistinguishable.
Strat
Beyond necessary regulation to prevent interference, etc he's largely correct. Regulatory capture is a huge problem among regulatory agencies in the US.
Generally the larger, more powerful, and broad the regulatory agency's power is, the bigger the problem tends to be or become.
The FCC is no exception.
Government powerful enough to give you everything you want and need is powerful enough to take it all away...and/or sell it.
Modded "Troll"?
Really?
"I disagree" =/= "Troll"
Aren't you intelligent enough to form a cogent argument, Mr. AnonyMod?
Must be a Trump or Sanders/Hildebeast supporter. "The government is horrible & corrupt! Give it broad new powers and more of those other peoples' money!"
Strat
Beyond necessary regulation to prevent interference, etc he's largely correct. Regulatory capture is a huge problem among regulatory agencies in the US.
Generally the larger, more powerful, and broad the regulatory agency's power is, the bigger the problem tends to be or become.
The FCC is no exception.
Government powerful enough to give you everything you want and need is powerful enough to take it all away...and/or sell it.
Strat
Because we the government say so and we will happily imprison or kill anyone who opposes us. We've already fully subverted the election process such that anybody we allow you to vote for is already under our control.
What are you gonna do about it?
Pick up that can!
Strat
- Cruz - Too much interested in promoting the stagnant republican agenda.
Wut?
Are we talking about the same guy that many if not most "establishment" Republicans despise so much they'd prefer Hillary Clinton as POTUS over him?
What I've heard from Cruz is a push to return to the Rule of Law where those in power are actually held accountable and insistence on Constitutional limits on government power. Of course if you get your information and opinions secondhand instead of actually researching things yourself, your confusion is understandable.
Strat
"Answer the questions Johnny or you'll be (expelled/suspended/anything-else-they-can-come-up-with) immediately!"
Also remember that police may knowingly outright lie to you, but any small detail of anything you say that's proven not 100% accurate, true, & factual is an arrestable and chargeable offense.
"When did you make this post?" "Uhh, 9:15pm." "The logs show it was actually 9:19pm. You're under arrest for providing false statements to law enforcement investigators."
Strat
What are reproducible experiments but experiments that have been reproduced and that are generally agreed to have been properly conducted? What use is a reproducible experiment that you have not reproduced? You accept other people's words that the experiment was indeed done. If you stop believing in what others in general say, how are you to progress? If you do believe in them, is that not consensus?
The only way a scientist can function is to assume that the consensus is generally correct.
So now it's semantic word games, eh? Independently verifiable results proven by independently conducted experiments are the only thing that count. Anything else is politics and hand-waving, but I repeat myself.
None of the predictions made by "climate scientists" has ever come to pass, none of the global cooling "crisis" of the 1970s nor of the global warming "crisis" currently in vogue.
They are both simply propaganda tools used to enable the transfer of wealth and concentration and centralization of political power.
There is more proof there were WMDs in Iraq than there is of an impending global climate crisis.
Strat
We don't have the technology to produce electricity from non-fossil-fuel sources?
Not as a replacement for current baseline power sources, no.
Getting rid of coal power plants would, I'd think, make a significant impact.
Without a viable replacement able to supply baseline power it will collapse the US power grid during the next winter. The US power grid came dangerously close to falling over this past winter due to the coal plants and nuclear plants already taken offline. Heck, the US power grid may collapse this winter without taking any more plants offline just due to increased demand due to population growth.
Strat
Silly me, I thought his oath was to uphold the Constitution.
That old rag? Nobody in the federal government has taken it seriously since at least Woodrow Wilson. If there were justice done, the top leaders/administrators at FBI/CIA/NSA and every Executive Branch agency would be put in front of a firing squad.
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If consensus isn't science, what do you do to verify that there's enough gravity to keep you on the ground? There's firm scientific beliefs that that isn't going to change, but that's consensus.
No, sorry, reproducible experiments prove or disprove something, not consensus. It does not matter who agrees or disagrees.
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You miss the whole point of climate change. The whole world is going to be poorer (on average...
I've seen no proof that AGW is that serious a problem or that immediate that the world should turn itself upside down and inside out as fast as possible over.
Reasonable and moderate actions on cleaning the environment coupled with adaptation seems the far more sensible choice.
"Consensus" is NOT science, it's politics, and there is far too much politics (and scummy politicians) and big money involved to be able to trust anything being said.
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We don't currently have the technology to produce the energy necessary to maintain a 21st century 1st-World living standard and technology level at the emission reduction levels that have been put forth as necessary to have a significant and meaningful impact.
This means the US population would face reductions in medicine, food, technology products/services and transportation, all of which would affect the poorest the worst, costing avoidable widespread death & suffering, and you would be telling Africans they are not allowed to advance these things for the lives of their own people beyond *just here*...and no more.
Based on models that can't even reproduce historic climate changes of the past with any reliability.
Yeah. Good luck with that. Better wear a helmet.
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