Stop with the "republic, not a democracy" garbage. It's utter nonsense. The list of republics who are democracies is a long one. The US describes *itself* as a democracy. I don't know where this deranged meme came from, but it needs to DIE. It's just wrong. Completely, utterly wrong.
Some leaks will be tactical moves politically by factions within the government. Other leaks are because the government is lying and people need to know.
Leakers have often come to see their masters as criminals who need to be held to account.
I'm glad the US government is having trouble hiding it's lying and bad dealing and full on murder.
It is time to replace the ISS with something larger and circular that can spin and create centripal force to emulate some level of gravity equivalent.
ISS has been very useful is testing methods of construction in space, but it hasn't been anywhere near ambitious enough. Too many visionless Republicans in Congress. Get rid of them. They don't even understand today, never mind the future. Climate change is still a mystery to them even when the evidence is staying them in the face. Hopeless.
Conservatives will be happy until they or their kids suffer a chronic condition their insurance company will refuse to cover or they have to go to the hospital. Then they may realise they've screwed themselves and their kids. Or maybe they won't realise anything. We're not talking about thoughtful, insightful people here.
A Canadian team, Hydrostat.ca, is doing the same thing except using extremely tough inflatable bladders, easily repaired or replaced. They use solar or wind power to pump compressed air into bladders, then later release it to drive generators.
The Canadian solution is much lighter and simpler than huge concrete spheres under the water.
For those paying attention, increasing corporate taxes is contrary to the fundamental goals of any Conservative party anywhere. As a group they are typically funded by corporates and senior positions are stacked with corporate personnel.
If you want a future for your kids, don't vote Conservative / GOP / whatever they call themselves.
Agreed. Robert A Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" is a story about how an oppressed Moon defends itself from a corrupt Earth by launching rooks at the Earth.
It's a great book.
This line of argument isn't helpful either as the Native Americans who occupied a given piece of land in 1650 may well be the descendents of others who "stole it" from previous occupants.
Much better to simply respect each other's humanity regardless of origin. At least far enough to not get drunk and shoot them.
There are no humans native to anywhere outside Africa and even then only certain ports of Africa..... But your have to go back over a million years.
To imagine that is meaningful today is just........ Very, very strange.
The Wall Street Journal has been fake news since it was sold to Rupert Murdoch in 2007. Fox news - set up by Murdoch after Reagan made the Australian a US citizen - has been fake news from the start.
Everything Murdoch touches turns to unreliable, blatently biased info-crud.
This is 6 years old, but still worth reading. There are also several books documenting Murdoch's life-long policy of distorting news in support of his political agenda.
This could be how the old car companies, in concert with their unions, screw Tesla over.
They can't compete on product, so it's dirty tricks time.
True American gangster capitalism.
That's why Americans should get used to foreign tourists going elsewhere. It's been happening for a while anyway, due to crazy gun laws, or access to healthcare and just a bad vibe during Bush II. The thing is, the people who won't come to America are the people you had nothing to fear from anyway.
Exactly. This attempt to portray taxes and restrictions on smoking as an attack on the poor is just the latest propaganda from the cancer-stick industry.
If they don't want to be poor and stigmatised, STOP BLOODY SMOKING!
French national health care is very good by any measure, but especially good compared to the outrageously expensive health care in the US.....If you can get it at all.
Yeah. That's the line the nuke industry pedals.
Meanwhile, Germany and Scotland and others with much weaker sunlight then the US are able to do what you say can't be done.
The US has huge potential for wind and solar. The only mixing link has been grid scale battery storage.....and Tesla is solving that problem. They recently set up the first 80MWh storage facility in California. This has been the missing link in the renewables chain. It's not missing anymore.
All of this can be set up in weeks or months, faster by far then any non-EV renewable power sources and cheaper than a multi-billion dollar wishful 'clean' nuclear solution no one knows how to do right now.
We can do renewables now. They are faster and cheaper to build. They have reached economy of scale and it's only going to get better. The US has sun power BEGGING to be used. Other countries running on 90% or 100% renewables would give their right arm to have sun power like the US has from end to end in the lower 48 and Hawaii. Plus all the wind that blows up in those mountains and across those ridges.
True. The message is getting through to those who are able to think.
But solar is clearly the way to go. If nothing else, a modest installation is done in a day or two and generating power almost immediately. Coal plants or gas plants take months or years to build and a nuclear power plant can take almost a decade and cost a billion dollars before producing a single kilowatt.
You can expect American politicians to lie. Politicians in countries that are functioning democracies are less likely to lie because they know they can be held to account. American politicians are rewarded by the two-party system for lying, so they lie a lot.
History could not be more clear: American's prefer to vote for politicians who lie. If they didn't, Dennis Kucinich would have served two terms as President and Bernie Sanders would have been sign in this week.
Instead, the biggest liar won, narrowly beating the second biggest liar.
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Stop with the "republic, not a democracy" garbage. It's utter nonsense. The list of republics who are democracies is a long one. The US describes *itself* as a democracy. I don't know where this deranged meme came from, but it needs to DIE. It's just wrong. Completely, utterly wrong.
Some leaks will be tactical moves politically by factions within the government. Other leaks are because the government is lying and people need to know. Leakers have often come to see their masters as criminals who need to be held to account. I'm glad the US government is having trouble hiding it's lying and bad dealing and full on murder.
It is time to replace the ISS with something larger and circular that can spin and create centripal force to emulate some level of gravity equivalent. ISS has been very useful is testing methods of construction in space, but it hasn't been anywhere near ambitious enough. Too many visionless Republicans in Congress. Get rid of them. They don't even understand today, never mind the future. Climate change is still a mystery to them even when the evidence is staying them in the face. Hopeless.
Android is Linux and there are desktop versions.
Seriously.
I already don't vote for people who think spying on everyone is OK. Until more people do the same, there isn't much people who do care can do.
Conservatives will be happy until they or their kids suffer a chronic condition their insurance company will refuse to cover or they have to go to the hospital. Then they may realise they've screwed themselves and their kids. Or maybe they won't realise anything. We're not talking about thoughtful, insightful people here.
A Canadian team, Hydrostat.ca, is doing the same thing except using extremely tough inflatable bladders, easily repaired or replaced. They use solar or wind power to pump compressed air into bladders, then later release it to drive generators. The Canadian solution is much lighter and simpler than huge concrete spheres under the water.
For those paying attention, increasing corporate taxes is contrary to the fundamental goals of any Conservative party anywhere. As a group they are typically funded by corporates and senior positions are stacked with corporate personnel. If you want a future for your kids, don't vote Conservative / GOP / whatever they call themselves.
Agreed. Robert A Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" is a story about how an oppressed Moon defends itself from a corrupt Earth by launching rooks at the Earth. It's a great book.
I like 3D TV. Curved seems..... Pointless.
This line of argument isn't helpful either as the Native Americans who occupied a given piece of land in 1650 may well be the descendents of others who "stole it" from previous occupants. Much better to simply respect each other's humanity regardless of origin. At least far enough to not get drunk and shoot them.
There are no humans native to anywhere outside Africa and even then only certain ports of Africa..... But your have to go back over a million years. To imagine that is meaningful today is just........ Very, very strange.
Damn. Forgot to post the link. http://silencednomore.com/rupe...
The Wall Street Journal has been fake news since it was sold to Rupert Murdoch in 2007. Fox news - set up by Murdoch after Reagan made the Australian a US citizen - has been fake news from the start. Everything Murdoch touches turns to unreliable, blatently biased info-crud. This is 6 years old, but still worth reading. There are also several books documenting Murdoch's life-long policy of distorting news in support of his political agenda.
This could be how the old car companies, in concert with their unions, screw Tesla over. They can't compete on product, so it's dirty tricks time. True American gangster capitalism.
He took the bus. It will be a long wait.
That's why Americans should get used to foreign tourists going elsewhere. It's been happening for a while anyway, due to crazy gun laws, or access to healthcare and just a bad vibe during Bush II. The thing is, the people who won't come to America are the people you had nothing to fear from anyway.
Universal basic income can be easily funded by printing money. But don't print too much money. That's why the word "basic" is there.
Exactly. This attempt to portray taxes and restrictions on smoking as an attack on the poor is just the latest propaganda from the cancer-stick industry. If they don't want to be poor and stigmatised, STOP BLOODY SMOKING!
You're welcome.
French national health care is very good by any measure, but especially good compared to the outrageously expensive health care in the US.....If you can get it at all.
Yeah. That's the line the nuke industry pedals. Meanwhile, Germany and Scotland and others with much weaker sunlight then the US are able to do what you say can't be done. The US has huge potential for wind and solar. The only mixing link has been grid scale battery storage.....and Tesla is solving that problem. They recently set up the first 80MWh storage facility in California. This has been the missing link in the renewables chain. It's not missing anymore. All of this can be set up in weeks or months, faster by far then any non-EV renewable power sources and cheaper than a multi-billion dollar wishful 'clean' nuclear solution no one knows how to do right now. We can do renewables now. They are faster and cheaper to build. They have reached economy of scale and it's only going to get better. The US has sun power BEGGING to be used. Other countries running on 90% or 100% renewables would give their right arm to have sun power like the US has from end to end in the lower 48 and Hawaii. Plus all the wind that blows up in those mountains and across those ridges.
True. The message is getting through to those who are able to think. But solar is clearly the way to go. If nothing else, a modest installation is done in a day or two and generating power almost immediately. Coal plants or gas plants take months or years to build and a nuclear power plant can take almost a decade and cost a billion dollars before producing a single kilowatt.
You can expect American politicians to lie. Politicians in countries that are functioning democracies are less likely to lie because they know they can be held to account. American politicians are rewarded by the two-party system for lying, so they lie a lot. History could not be more clear: American's prefer to vote for politicians who lie. If they didn't, Dennis Kucinich would have served two terms as President and Bernie Sanders would have been sign in this week. Instead, the biggest liar won, narrowly beating the second biggest liar.